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Musical Prodigies: Interpretations from Psychology, Education, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology

Gary E. McPherson

Abstract

Until now, no single resource has attempted to bring together such a varied range of disciplines to study the phenomenon of the musical prodigy, nor attempted to cover such a diverse range of topics. The 35 chapters which comprise Musical Prodigies: Interpretations from Psychology, Education, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology are organized according to three sections: Theoretical Frameworks, Aspects of Development, and Individual Examples. Each chapter retains the style and referencing of the author’s area of research. Readers will find a multitude of clues within this volume that will help shap ... More

Keywords: musical prodigy, prodigy, musical development, precociousness, childhood

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2016 Print ISBN-13: 9780199685851
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2017 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199685851.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Gary E. McPherson, editor
Ormond Professor and Director, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne , Australia

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction

Section 1 Theoretical frameworks

Chapter 1 Analyzing musical prodigiousness using Gagné’s Integrative Model of Talent Development

Françoys Gagné and Gary E. McPherson

Chapter 2 Two roads diverged in the musical wood

David Henry Feldman

Chapter 3 Syzygies, social worlds, and exceptional achievement in music

Robert Faulkner and Jane W. Davidson

Chapter 4 Genetic influences on musical giftedness, talent, and practice

Miriam Anna Mosing and Fredrik Ullén

Chapter 5 Musicological reports on early 20th century musical prodigies

Reinhard Kopiez and Andreas C. Lehmann

Chapter 6 Early and late bloomers among 120 classical composers

Dean Keith Simonton

Chapter 7 The wunderkind composer

Barry Cooper

Section 2 Aspects of development

Chapter 8 Working memory in musical prodigies

Larry Vandervert

Chapter 9 The brain’s rapid encoding of rule-governed domains of knowledge

Larry Vandervert

Chapter 10 On the cognitive-developmental theory of the child prodigy phenomenon

Larisa V. Shavinina

Chapter 11 Transitioning musical abilities into expertise and beyond

Rena F. Subotnik, Linda Jarvin, Andrew Thomas, and Geesoo Maie Lee

Chapter 12 Growing-up prodigies

Jeanne Bamberger

Chapter 13 Musical prodigies and motivation

Andrew J. Martin

Chapter 14 Musical prodigies

Áine MacNamara, Dave Collins, and Patricia Holmes

Chapter 15 Prodigies of music composition

Lena Quinto, Paolo Ammirante, Michael H. Connors, and William Forde Thompson

Chapter 16 Development of timing skills

Thenille Braun Janzen, Paolo Ammirante, and William Forde Thompson

Chapter 17 Igor

Simone Dalla Bella, Jakub Sowiński, Nicolas Farrugia, and Magdalena Berkowska

Chapter 18 The career decisions of musical prodigies

Jae Yup Jung and Paul Evans

Chapter 19 Musical prodigies within the virtual stage of YouTube

Freya M. de Mink and Gary E. McPherson

Chapter 20 Synesthesia and prodigiousness: the case of Olivier Messiaen

Solange Glasser

Chapter 21 Prodigious musical talent in blind children with autism and learning difficulties

Adam Ockelford

Chapter 22 Veridical mapping in the development of autistic musical savants

Laurent Mottron and Lucie Bouvet

Section 3 Individual examples

Chapter 23 “Proofs of genius”

Rachel Cowgill

Chapter 24 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the child performer–composer

Simon P. Keefe

Chapter 25 Ludwig van Beethoven

Siân Derry

Chapter 26 The “Second Mozart”

R. Larry Todd

Chapter 27 Teresa Carreño

Anna E. Kijas

Chapter 28 A folk song prodigy? Considering the exceptional musical childhood of Chilean folklorist Margot Loyola

Dan Bendrups

Chapter 29 Glenn Gould

S. Timothy Maloney

Chapter 30 André Mathieu (1929–1968)

Danick Trottier

Chapter 31 Jack Teagarden’s Southwestern Sound

Alex W. Rodriguez

Chapter 32 “Little” Stevie Wonder: Motown musical prodigy

Gabriel Solis

Chapter 33 “You can’t win, child, but you can’t get out of the game”

Jacqueline Warwick

Chapter 34 Jason Becker

Michael Heffley

Chapter 35 Justin Bieber, YouTube, and new media celebrity

Tyler Bickford

End Matter

Author Index

Subject Index