1st Edition
Music in the Lives of Young Children An Annotated Anthology of Research Papers from Early Child Development and Care
This annotated anthology documents historical trends and basic findings regarding music in early childhood education, development, and care.
The papers in this volume discuss the main research trends of musical engagement with early children, such as music in the family, employing music in child care, and musical skill and development. This collection hopes to stimulate further reflections on the implementation of music in daily practice. The volume represents many facets of research from different cultural contexts and reflects trends and projects of music in early childhood. The findings incorporate a historical perspective with regards to different topics and approaches.
The book provides practitioners and researchers of music education, music development, and music psychology, an opportunity to read a selection of articles that were previously published in the journal Early Child Development and Care. Each paper concludes with an annotation note supplied by the principle author addressing how they see their article from the perspective of today.
Introduction. Music in early childhood education and care: Past and present
Wilfried Gruhn and Warren Brodsky
Part I: Caregiving – Parenting
1. On musical parenting of young children: Musical beliefs and behaviors of mothers and infants
Beatriz S. Ilari
Annotation by Beatriz S. Ilari
2. Caregiving in counterpoint: Reciprocal influences in the musical parenting of younger and older infants
Lori A. Custodero and Elissa A. Johnson-Green
Annotation by Lori A. Custodero and Elissa A. Johnson-Green
3. Music at home with the under-fives: What is happening?
Peter de Vries
Annotation by Linda Lorenza
4. The musical dimension of daily routines with under-four children during diaper change, bedtime and free-play
Anna Rita Addessi
Annotation by Anna Rita Addessi
5. The communicative characteristics of musical interactions compared with play interactions between mothers and their one-year-old infants
Orit Mualem and Pnina S. Klein
Annotation by Orit Mualem
6. The effects of music and movement on mother–infant interactions
Wendy Vlismas, Stephen Malloch, and Denis Burnham
Annotation by Wendy Vlismas, Stephen Malloch, and Denis Burnham
7. Musical engagement among families with young children: A CMBI (V.972) study
Warren Brodsky, Idit Sulkin, and Michal Hefer
Annotation by Warren Brodsky
Part II: Musical Development
8. Octave generalization in young children
Desmond Sergeant
Annotation by Desmond Sergeant
9. Music and language development in early childhood: Integrating past research in the two domains
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Annotation by Lily Chen-Hafteck
10. Music perception and cognition in the first year of life
Beatriz S. Ilari
Annotation by Beatriz S. Ilari
11. Mozart Effect in preschool children?
Ken Hui
Annotation by E. Glenn Schellenberg
12. Towards constructions of musical childhoods: Diversity and digital technologies
Susan Young
Annotation by Susan Young
13. Infants’ attention to synthesised baby music and original acoustic music
Carla H. Merkow and Eugenia Costa-Giomi
Annotation by Eugenia Costa-Giomi
Part III: Musical Aspects – Singing, Movement, and Teaching
14. Contributions to an understanding of the music and movement connection
Susan Young
Annotation by Susan Young
15. Piano keyboard training and the spatial–temporal development of young children attending kindergarten classes in Greece
Nikolaos Zafranas
Annotation by Nikolaos Zafranas
16. Handclapping songs: A spontaneous platform for child development among 5-10-year-old children
Warren Brodsky and Idit Sulkin
Annotation by Idit Sulkin
17. ‘Bejazzled’: Employing attributes of pre-schoolers’ play to facilitate musical interactions with jazz
Mignon van Vreden
Annotation by Mignon van Vreden
18. The effects of Orff-based attention-enhancing music education programme on impulsive preschool children’s cognitive tempo
Gökhan Kayili and Özden Kuşcu
Annotation by Özden Kuşcu and Gökhan Kayili
Biography
Warren Brodsky is Associate Professor of Music Psychology in the Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel. He was Registered, Certified, and Board Certified as a clinical music therapist (1984-2000, in the USA, the UK, Israel). Warren completed a PhD degree in Psychology at Keele University (UK, 1995). He was the recipient of two Post-Doctoral Fellowships at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1996-2001). He is Director of the Music Science Lab at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests include musical skill and development, the effects of music on driving behaviour, and positive aging among professional symphony orchestra musicians.
Wilfried Gruhn is Professor Emeritus of Music Education. He completed a PhD in Musicology (1967). He was the President of the International Research Alliance of Institutes for Music Education (1995-1997), a Board Member of the International Society for Music Education (2000-2004), the founder/first Director of the Gordon Institute of Early Childhood Music Learning in Freiburg (Germany, 2003-2009), and the founder/first President of the International Leo Kestenberg Society (2009). His research areas include historical research on music education, and empirical studies on perception, cognition, and the neurobiological foundations of music learning.
