Menc Handbook Of Musical Cognition And Development

MENC Handbook of Musical Cognition and Development Richard Colwell, Editor OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS MENC Handbook of Musical Cognition and Development This page intentionally left blank MENC HANDBOOK OF MUSICAL COGNITION AND DEVELOPMENT Edited by Richard Colwell 1 2006 1 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright
2002 by MENC: The National Association for Music Education, 2006 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data MENC Handbook of musical cognition and development / edited by Richard Colwell. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13 978-0-19-518923-0; 978-0-19-530456-5 (pbk.) ISBN 0-19-518923-X; 0-19-530456-X (pbk.) 1. Music—Instruction and study. I. Colwell, Richard. II. Music Educators National Conference (U.S.) MT1.M98736 2006 780'.71—dc22 2005048092 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Preface The use of research findings is critical to the success of music teaching and learning. There is probably no area of greater importance in the 21st century than research involving music and its impact on the development and use by the human brain. The popular press has reported partial findings of research indicating the importance of music in human development. It is important that teachers and researchers have a full understanding of the findings of valid studies in order that our knowledge not be misused. Andreas Lehmann, a German scholar, assembled an outstanding team that wrote chapters on our knowledge of perception and cognition for the New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning published by Oxford University Press in 2002. In this text, we provide an up-date of that material with the addition of a chapter on Music and Neuroscience by John W. Flohr and Donald A. Hodges. This up-date is the result of the efforts of Ms. Kim Robinson and Ms. Eve Bachrach of Oxford University Press and Mike Blakeslee of the National Association for Music Education—MENC, believers in the importance of disseminating research findings to the profession. It is our hope that the publication of separate, small, economical, books on specialized research topics will make the material more accessible to users in a variety of fields. Music cognition is a vital topic for scholars in medicine, psychology, in educational psychology, and in music theory, as well as for music educators. One will note that we have selected authors from all of these fields and authors from continental Europe, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. It has been my pleasure to work through with them with the assistance of Professor Lehmann issues of language, definitions, and concepts to make the material clear to not only English speakers but those who use English as a research tool. Accurate definitions apply to the topic of each chapter although the authors have coordinated their writing to avoid duplication and to cove