Generative Processes in Music: The Psychology of Performance, Improvisation, and Composition

by John A. Sloboda (Editor)

Overview

Where most of the literature in the psychology of music has focused on the processes involved when listening to music, little has been written about the processes involved in making music. Reissued by popular demand, and for the first time in paperback, Generative Processes: The Psychology of Performance, Improvisation, and Composition brings together leading figures in music psychology to present pioneering studies of the processes by which music is generated. The book looks at the generation of expression in musical performance, the problems of synchrony in ensemble performance, the development of children's song, rehearsal strategies of pianists, improvisational skill in trained and untrained musicians, children's spontaneous notations for music, formal constraints on compositional systems, and compositional strategies of music students. Edited by the leading authority on music psychology, the book will be of great interest to cognitive and developmental psychologists, as well as music educators and musicologists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198508465
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/22/2001
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Professor John Sloboda is the leading authority world-wide on the psychology of music. His classic book 'The musical mind' was published by OUP in 1985, and has been reprinted 15 times.

Table of Contents

List of contributors1. Generative principles in music performance, Eric F. Clarke2. Timing in music performance and its relations to music experience, Alf Gabrielsson3. Computer synthesis of music performance, Johan Sundberg4. Timing and synchronization in ensemble performance, Rudolf A. Rasch5. Rehearsal skill and musical competence: does practice make perfect?, Linda M. Gruson6. Tonal structure and children's early learning of music, W. Jay Dowling7. Improvisation: methods and models, Jeff Pressing8. Experimental research into musical generative ability, Maria Sagi and Ivan Vitanyi9. Young children's musical representations: windows on music cognition, Lyle Davidson and Lawrence Scripp10. Cognitive constraints on compositional systems, Fred Lerdahl11. From collections to structure: the developmental path of tonal thinking, Lyle Davidson and Patricia WelshAppendixAuthor indexSubject index1. Generative principles in music performance2. Timing in music performance and its relation to music3. Computer synthesis of music performance4. Timing and synchronization in ensemble performance5. Rehearsal skill and musical competence: does practice make perfect? 6. Tonal structure and children's early learning of music7. Improvisation: methods and models8. Experimental research into musical generative ability9. Young children's musical representations: windows on music cognition10. Cognitive constraints on compositional systems11. From collections to structure: the developmental path of tonal thinkingAppendixAuthor indexSubject index