Communicative musicality: exploring the basis of human companionship

'Communicative Musicality' explores the intrinsic musical nature of human interaction. Groundbreaking studies have demonstrated that in mother/infant communication there exist noticeable patterns of timing, pulse, voice timbre, and gesture.This landmark book examines the nature of musical expression in human communication from infancy upwards. INDICE: 1: Stephen Malloch & Colwyn Trevarthen: Musicality: communicating the vitality and interests of life; Part 1 - The Origins and Psychobiology of Musicality; 2: Ellen Dissanayake: Root, leaf, blossom, or bole: concerning the origin and adaptive function of music; 3: Per Aage Brandt: Music and how we became human: a view from cognitive semiotics - exploring imaginative hypotheses; 4: Bjorn Merker: Ritual foundations of human uniqueness; 5: Ian Cross & Iain Morley: The evolution of music: theories, definitions and the nature of the evidence; 6: David N Lee & Benjamin Schögler: Tau in musical expression; 7:Jaak Panksepp & Colwyn Trevarthen: The neuroscience of emotion in music; 8: Robert Turner & Andreas A Ioannides: Brain, music and musicality: inferences from neuroimaging; Part 2 - Musicality in Infancy; 9: Katerina Mazokopaki & Giannis Kugiumutzakis: Infant rhythms: expressions of musical companionship; 10: Niki Powers & Colwyn Trevarthen: Voices of shared emotion and meaning: young infants and their mothers in Scotland and Japan; 11: Patricia Eckerdal & Bjorn Merker: 'Music' and the 'action song' in infant development: an interpretation;12: Benjamin S Bradley: Early trios: patterns of sound and movement in the genesis of meaning between infants; 13: Helen Marwick & Lynne Murray: The effects of maternal depression on the 'musicality' of infant-directed speech and conversational engagement; 14: Maya Gratier & Gisèle Apter-Danon: The improvised musicality of belonging: repetition and variation in mother-infant vocal interaction; Part 3 - Musicality and Healing; 15: Nigel Osborne: Music for childrenin zones of conflict and post-conflict: a bio-psycho-social paradigm; 16: Mercédès Pavlicevic & Gary Ansdell: Between communicative musicality and collaborative musicing: a perspective from community music therapy; 17: Jacqueline Robarts: Supporting the development of mindfulness and meaning: clinical pathwaysin music therapy with a sexually abused child; 18: Karen E Bond: The human nature of dance: towards a theory of aesthetic community; 19: Tony Wigram & Cochavit Elefant: Therapeutic dialogues in music: nurturing musicality of communication in children with autistic spectrum disorder and Rett syndrome; Part 4 - Musicality of Learning in Childhood; 20: Frederick Erickson: Musicality in talk and listening: a key element in classroom discourse as an environment for learning; 21: Nicholas Bannan & Sheila Woodward: Spontaneity in the musicality and music learning of children; 22: Charlotte Fröhlich: Vitality in music and dance as basic existential experience: application in teaching music; 23: Lori A Custodero: Intimacy and reciprocity in improvisatory musical performance: pedagogical lessons from adult artists and young children; Part 5 - Musicality in Performance; 24: Ellen Dissanayake: Bodies swayed to music: the temporal arts as integral to ceremonial ritual; 25: Nigel Osborne: Towards a chronobiologyof music; 26: Jane Davidson & Stephe

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958872-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 656
• Fecha Publicación: 11/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés