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Informationen zum Autor Gary E. McPherson studied music education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, before completing a master of music education at Indiana University, a doctorate of philosophy at the University of Sydney and a Licentiate and Fellowship in trumpet performance through Trinity College, London. He is the Ormond Professor and Director of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne, and previously held a position as the Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman endowed chair in music education at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has served as National President of the Australian Society for Music Education and President of the International Society for Music Education. His research interests are broad and his approach interdisciplinary. His most important research examines the acquisition and development of musical competence, and motivation to engage and participate in music from novice to expert levels. Klappentext This books breaks new ground in presenting the first scientific exploration on the topic of musical prodigies. It brings together research from a range of disciplines, including psychology, neurobiology, and genetics, to provide a thorough exploration of prodigious talent Zusammenfassung This books breaks new ground in presenting the first scientific exploration on the topic of musical prodigies. It brings together research from a range of disciplines, including psychology, neurobiology, and genetics, to provide a thorough exploration of prodigious talent Inhaltsverzeichnis Section One: Theoretical Frameworks 1: Françoys Gagné and Gary E. McPherson: Music prodigies within the DMGT/EMTD perspective 2: David Henry Feldman: Two Roads Diverged in the Music Wood: A Co-incidence Approach to the Lives and Careers of Nyiregyhazi and Menuhin 3: Robert Faulkner and Jane W. Davidson: Syzygies, social worlds and exceptional achievement in music 4: Miriam Anna Mosing and Fredrik Ullén: Genetic influences on musical giftedness, talent and practice 5: Reinhard Kopiez and Andreas C. Lehmann: Musicological Reports on Early 20th-Century Musical Prodigies: The Beginnings of an Objective Assessment 6: Dean Keith Simonton: Early and Late Bloomers among 120 Classical Composers: Were the Greatest Geniuses also Prodigies? 7: Barry Cooper: The Wunderkind Composer Section Two: Aspects of Development 8: Larry Vandervert: Working Memory in Musical Prodigies: A 10,000 Year-Old Story, One Million Years in the Making 9: Larry Vandervert: The collaboration of the cerebellum (rapid encoding) and the cerebral cortex: A Case Analysis of Tiffany Poon 10: Larisa V. Shavinina: On the Cognitive-Developmental Theory of the Child Prodigy Phenomenon 11: Rena Subotnik, Linda Jarvin, Andrew Thomas, and Geesoo Maie Lee: Transitioning Musical Abilities into Expertise and Beyond: The Role of Psychosocial Skills in Developing Prodigious Talent 12: Jeanne Bamberger: Growing-Up Prodigies: The Midlife Crisis 13: Andrew J. Martin: Musical Prodigies and Motivation 14: Aine MacNamara, Dave Collins, and Patricia Holmes: Musical Prodigies: Does Talent Need Trauma? 15: Lena Quinto, Paolo Ammirante, Michael H. Connors, and William Forde Thompson: Prodigies of Music Composition: Cognitive Abilities and Developmental Antecedents 16: Thenille Braun Janzen, William Forde Thompson, and Paolo Ammirante: Development of timing skills 17: Simone Dalla Bella, Jakub Sowi?ski, Nicolas Farrugia, and Magdalena Berkowska: Igor: a case study of a child drummer prodigy 18: Jae Yup Jung and Paul Evans: The career decisions of musical prodigies 19: Freya de Mink and Gary E. McPherson: Musical Prodigies Within the Virtual Stage of YouTube 20: Solange Glasser: Synaesthesia and Child Prodigiousness: The Case of Olivier Messiaen 21: Adam Ockelford: The development and nurture of prodigious musical talent in blind...
