Table of Contents

Section 1: Development
1: Richard Parncutt: Prenatal Development
2: Sandra E. Trehub and Franziska Dege?: Reflections on Infants as Musical Connoisseurs
3: Donald A. Hodges: The Child Musician's Brain
4: Susan Hallam: Musicality
5: Kathleen A. Corrigall and E. Glenn Schellenberg: Music cognition in childhood
6: Jackie Wiggins: Musical Agency
7: Adam Ockelford: The potential impact of autism on musical development
Section 2: Engagement
8: E. Glenn Schellenberg: Music and Nonmusical Abilities
9: Janet Mills & Gary E. McPherson: Musical Literacy: Reading traditional clef notation
10: Chris Philpott: Musical Literacy: Music as language
11: Andrew Brown: Engaging in a sound musicianship
12: Emery Schubert & Gary E. McPherson: Underlying Mechanisms and Processes in the Development of Emotion Perception in Music
13: David J. Elliott & Marissa Silverman: Felt Experiences of Popular Musics
14: Sharon G. Davis: Children, Popular Music, and Identity
15: Paul Woodford: The Child as Music Critic
16: David J. Hargreaves, Adrian C. North, & Mark Tarrant: How and why do musical preferences change in childhood and adolescence?
Section 3: Differences
17: Paul Evans: Motivation
18: Gary E. McPherson & Aaron Williamon: Building gifts into musical talents
19: Judith A. Jellison: Inclusive Music Classrooms: A Universal Approach
20: Costanza Preti & Katrina S. McFerran: Music and Wellbeing during Illness
21: Katrina S. McFerran: Adolescent Music Is Not Problematic
Section 4: Skills
22: Gary E. McPherson, Jane W. Davidson and Paul Evans: Playing an instrument
23: Margaret Sarah Osborne: Building performance confidence
24: Graham Welch: Singing and vocal development
25: Kathryn Marsh & Susan Young: Musical play
26: Pamela Burnard and Hsu-Chan Kuo: The Individual and Social Worlds of Children's Musical Creativities
27: Peter Webster: Computer-Based Technology
Section 5: Contexts
28: Gordon Cox: Historical Perspectives
29: Frank Abrahams & Daniel Abrahams: Child as Musical Apprentice
30: Patricia Shehan Campbell: Global Practices
31: Alexandra Kertz-Welzel: Transcultural Childhoods
32: Lee Higgins: My Voice is Important Too: Non-formal Music Experiences and Young People
33: Susan A. O'Neill: Transformative Music Engagement and Musical Flourishing
34: Jane W. Davidson & Robert Faulkner: The transition from adolescent to adult music learner
35: Stephanie E. Pitts: Fostering lifelong engagement in music

About the Author

Gary E. McPherson is the Ormond Professor and Director of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne. 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. With a particular interest in the acquisition of visual, aural and creative performance skills, he has attempted to understand more precisely how music
students become sufficiently motivated and self-regulated to achieve at the highest level.

Reviews

`This timely, fascinating and thought-provoking set of essays, says editor Gary McPherson, sets out to 'celebrate the richness and diversity of the many different ways in which children can engage in and interact with music.' It succeeds magnificently, but provides moreit is a book that can be heartily recommended to anyone involved in music making and education, and - not least - to every parent.'
Music Teacher