The Psychology of a Musical ProdigyThis is Volume XV of twenty-one in the Cognitive Psychology series. Published in 1925, this study looks at the view of musical art, in an extraordinarily gifted child, whom the author studied with the aid of the methods at his disposal, endeavouring to discover the extent of his mental capacity and, in connection with this, to establish what influences determined the development of his musical talent. |
Contents
INTRODUCTORY | 1 |
ON THE EARLY APPEARANCE OF MUSICAL | 11 |
ON THE GENERAL ASPECT OF MUSICAL | 21 |
DIAGNOSIS OF MENTAL CAPACITY BY | 30 |
INVESTIGATION OF ELEMENTARY ACOUSTIC | 65 |
TRANSPOSING READING AT SIGHT PLAYING | 84 |
ERWIN AS A PIANIST | 108 |
IMPROVIZING AND MODULATING | 114 |
COMPOSITIONS | 125 |
PROGRESS OF CREATIVE MUSICAL DEVELOP | 155 |
Theme Longing composed in 1913 | 168 |
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ability able to reproduce absolute pitch acoustic already analysed artistic asked Bach bars beautiful Beethoven Binet Bizet Cadenza character child chords colour composed consecutive fifths correct answers correctly creative activity David Popper drawings early age emotion Erwin Erwin's capacity Erwin's compositions examination Example expression F sharp fact faculties faultless faultlessly feeling flat major Funeral March gift give harmonies heard impression improvizations infant prodigies influence instance intellectual intelligence interesting interpretation invention investigation J. S. Bach lady pianist manner melody Memory Experiment ment mental mistake modulation motif Mozart musical development musical education musical talent musicians nature notes observation octave perfect pitch period person piano piece played possible Psychology Puccini questions regards remarkable repeated repetition result Révész Richard Strauss Schumann seconds sense of absolute Serenata sharp minor Sonata song sound-combinations sounds Stumpf tempo tests theme tion transposed transposing instrument whole