Music as a cognitive skill; Music, language and meaning; The performance of music; Composition and improvisation; Listening to music; Musical learning and development; The musical mind in context: culture and biology; References; Indexes.
`the clarity of Sloboda's writing and his numerous suggestions for
further research will make his book essential reading for anyone,
student or researcher, interested in how minds and music
interact.'
Nature
`this work is infused with informed observations of high interest
to psychologists, musicians and teachers of music...Sloboda's
research has been exemplary' Allan Shields in'
Journal of the International Society
`Sloboda's book deserves loud applause, for its content, for its
frankness in dealing with speculative issues largely ignored by
other workers, and especially because it brings with it a new kind
of approach.'
New Scientist
`one of the most stimulating books it has been my lot to read'
Classical Music
`as a vastly influential sourcebook ... even entirely non-academic
music lovers should find plenty to interest them in Sloboda's lucid
surveys of research into the ways performers read, master and
memorise music, the way it is improvised and composed, how we hear
and grasp it, what part it plays in personal development and, more
broadly, in society and culture as a whole.'
Bayan Northcott, BBC Music
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