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Tables of Contents for The Musical Mind
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Music As a Cognitive Skill
1
10
Music, Language, and Meaning
11
56
Introduction
11
1
Chomsky and Schenker
11
6
Other comparisons between language and music
17
6
Musical phonology
23
9
Musical syntax
32
25
Musical semantics
57
8
Conclusions
65
2
The Performance of Music
67
35
Introduction
67
1
Sight reading
68
22
Rehearsal
90
3
Expert performance
93
9
Composition and Improvisation
102
167
Introduction
102
2
Manuscript evidence
104
11
Composers' writings on their own compositional process
115
8
Observations of composers at work
123
15
Improvisation
138
13
Listening to Music
Introduction
151
3
`Natural hearing': primitive grouping mechanisms in music
154
12
Attention in music listening
166
8
Memory in music listening
174
20
Musical Learning and Development
Introduction
194
4
Musical enculturation
198
17
Training and skill acquisition
215
18
Assessing musical ability
233
6
The Musical Mind in Context: Culture and Biology
Introduction
239
1
Culture and musical thinking
240
20
Biology and musical thinking
260
9
References
269
14
Indexes
283