A01=Elizabeth Hawkins
A01=Graham Welch
A01=Johannella Tafuri
auditory perception
Author_Elizabeth Hawkins
Author_Graham Welch
Author_Johannella Tafuri
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Imitative Songs
incanto
inCanto Project
Infant Musicality
Longitudinal Research Project
longitudinal study
Midi Interface
Mother's Singing
Mother’s Singing
Musical Babbling
Musical Intelligence
Musical Stimuli
Ne Va
parent-child interaction
Perceptive Cognitive Development
Pitch Errors
Prenatal Life
Prenatal Memory
project
Pum Pum
rhythm
Rhythm Sticks
rhythmic skills
Rossana Dalmonte
Small Percussion Instruments
Spontaneous Song
sticks
Tafuri Johannella
Vice Versa
Villa Donatella
vocal learning
Vocal Production
Product details
- ISBN 9780754665069
- Weight: 582g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Feb 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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What can infants hear? What are their reactions to music? Is it useful for them to sing and listen to music? Is their auditory sensitivity developed before their birth? At what age do they start singing, and clapping their hands? How can their musical development be improved? These (and other) questions are present in today's debate on music education and the responses are normally given in an intuitive way. It is now necessary and urgent to sketch a developmental profile of infants, starting from their earliest manifestations. In the last 30 years, research in this field has been progressively developed. In most cases research has been devoted to single aspects of more complex problems. Moreover, it has been based on non-homogeneous categories of subjects and by different methods. Motivated by the fact that many open problems need to be solved, Professor Tafuri decided, in 1998, to begin a longitudinal research project devoted to studying the musical development in children from 0 to 6 years, with particular attention on the ability to sing in tune. During these 6 years, the children would have a regular music education experience with their mothers and often other members of the immediate family. This book has two main areas of focus. The first reconstructs the development of human musical abilities. Tafuri systematically reports studies of the development of vocal, rhythmic and motor abilities through the observation of the same participants for three years, beginning with the mothers' experiences in the last three months of pre-natal life. The programme of musical activities and the modalities of the collaboration with the parents are described. The second area of focus puts forward an educational perspective based on the results of the research. The amount and the quality of the collected data can allow parents and educators to plan different activities by considering the starting point for individual participants and the development of their musical abilities. The long-term aim is to reach an overarching understanding of the personal musicality of each subject. The book will be of crucial interest to parents and nursery/kindergarten educators so that they can have scientific, theoretical and methodological foundations for their educational strategies, as well as being of considerable interest to all musical educators, irrespective of the age of their pupils: a good knowledge of the first stages of musical development can permit a better evaluation and a fulfilment of later educational needs in music.
Johannella Tafuri is Professor of Music Education at the Conservatorio di Musica "G.B. Martini" di Bologna, Italy
