Generative processes in music
Subtitle: the psychology of performance, improvisation, and composition
By: edited by John A. Sloboda.
Contributors: Sloboda, John A.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Music -- Performance -- Psychological aspects; Improvisation (Music) -- Psychological aspects; Composition (Music) -- Psychological aspects; Cognition; Developmental psychology
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Originally published: 1988, in series: Oxford science publications.
Table of contents: title: Generative principles in music performance / Eric F. Clarke; title: Timing in music performance and its relations to music experience / Alf Gabrielsson; title: Computer synthesis of music performance / Johan Sundberg; title: Timing and synchronization in ensemble performance / Rudolf A. Rasch; title: Rehearsal skill and musical competence : does practice make perfect? / Linda M. Gruson; title: Tonal structure and children's early learning of music / W. Jay Dowling; title: Improvisation : methods and models / Jeff Pressing; title: Experimental research into musical generative ability / Maria Sagi and Ivan Vitanyi; title: Young children's musical representations : windows on music cognition / Lyle Davidson and Lawrence Scripp; title: Cognitive constraints on compositional systems / Fred Lerdahl; title: From collections to structure : the developmental path of tonal thinking / Lyle Davidson and Patricia Welsh.