Generative processes in music
Subtitle: the psychology of performance, improvisation, and composition
By: edited by John A. Sloboda.
Contributors: Sloboda, John A.
Series: Oxford science publications
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1988
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.