Generative processes in music: the psychology of performance, improvisation, and composition

The first book to concentrate of the psychology of performance.
Edited by the leading figure in music psychology.
Includes several chapters now considered to be classics.

Where most of the literature in the psychology of music has focused on the processes involved when listening to music, little has been written about the processes involved in making music. Reissued by popular demand, and for the first time in paperback, Generative Processes: The Psychology of Performance, Improvisation, and Composition brings together leading figures in music psychology to present pioneering studies of the processes by which music is generated. 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. Edited by the leading authority on music psychology, the book will be of great interest to cognitive and developmental psychologists, as well as music educators and musicologists.

Readership: Cognitive and developmental psychologists. Music educators, musicologists

CONTENIDO

1 Generative principles in music performance
2 Timing in music performance and its relation to music
3 Computer synthesis of music performance
4 Timing and synchronization in ensemble performance
5 Rehearsal skill and musical competence: does practice make perfect?
6 Tonal structure and children's early learning of music
7 Improvisation: methods and models
8 Experimental research into musical generative ability
9 Young children's musical representations: windows on music cognition
10 Cognitive constraints on compositional systems
11 From collections to structure: the developmental path of tonal thinking
Appendix
Author index
Subject index