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Society for Education,Music and Psychology Research

SAGE Publications

ISSN 0305-7356

Psychology of Music

Volume 312003Editor:Susan Hallam

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Jeanne Bamberger

The development ofintuitive musical understanding:a natural experiment7

John McCormick and Gary McPherson

The role ofself-efficacy in a musical performance examination:an exploratory structural equation analysis37

Luan Ford and Jane W. Davidson

An investigation ofmembers’ roles in wind quintets53

Elizabeth S. Nawrot

The perception ofemotional expression in music: evidence frominfants, children and adults75

Stephanie Wilson

The effect ofmusic on perceived atmosphere and purchaseintentions in a restaurant93

BOOKREVIEWS

Robert Rowe,

Machine Musicianship

Reviewed by Jonathan Impett113Tim Miles and John Westcombe (eds),

Music and Dyslexia:Opening New Doors

Reviewed by Katie Overy116

The development ofintuitivemusical understanding: a naturalexperiment

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JEANNE BAMBERGER

MASSACHUSETTSINSTITUTEOFTECHNOLOGYABSTRACT

Tracing the compositional process oftwo musically untrainedcollege students, this close case study demonstrates their ability to producearchetypal tonal melodies, even when working initially within the constraints of tonally and metrically ambiguous melodic materials. The two students wererepresentative ofa sample ofabout 75 who participated in a new approachto music fundamentals supported by a novel, interactive computer musicenvironment. Students’ logs, including their composition sketches, decision-making, analysis ofprogressive modifications and completed compositions, serveas evidence and data for analysis. It is argued that, when students work at theirown pace with immediate sound feedback, can modify given materials and haveaccess to multiple representations at differing levels ofdetail, they are able tomake explicit their intuitive criteria for compositional decision-making, as well asproposing an intuitive model ofa ‘sensible tune’.

KEYWORDS

archetypes, experimental methodology, learning, music theory, musicalintuitions, perception, structural functions

Introduction

This article reports on a close case study oftwo musically untrained collegestudents as they go about the task ofcomposing melodies within the constraintsofcertain given materials. The two students,

who are the subjects in thisnatural experiment in music cognition and the development ofmusicalunderstanding, are representative ofsome 75 students who have participatedin a new approach to music fundamentals, supported by a novel interactivecomputer music environment. The students’ logs trace their compositionsketches, decision-making and analysis ofprogressive modifications. In thisarticle, these logs, together with their completed compositions, serve as thedata for analysis.

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