Contenido
- Section One: Theoretical Frameworks
- 1:Music prodigies within the DMGT/EMTD perspective, Françoys Gagné & Gary E. McPherson
- 2:Two Roads Diverged in the Music Wood: A Co-incidence Approach to the Lives and Careers of Nyiregyhazi and Menuhin, David Henry Feldman
- 3:Syzygies, social worlds and exceptional achievement in music, Robert Faulkner & Jane W. Davidson
- 4:Genetic influences on musical giftedness, talent and practice, Miriam Anna Mosing and Fredrik Ullén
- 5:Musicological Reports on Early 20th-Century Musical Prodigies: The Beginnings of an Objective Assessment, Reinhard Kopiez & Andreas C. Lehmann
- 6:Early and Late Bloomers among 120 Classical Composers: Were the Greatest Geniuses also Prodigies?, Dean Keith Simonton
- 7:The Wunderkind Composer, Barry Cooper
- Section Two: Aspects of Development
- 8:Working Memory in Musical Prodigies: A 10,000 Year-Old Story, One Million Years in the Making, Larry Vandervert
- 9:The collaboration of the cerebellum (rapid encoding) and the cerebral cortex: A Case Analysis of Tiffany Poon, Larry Vandervert
- 10:On the Cognitive-Developmental Theory of the Child Prodigy Phenomenon, Larisa V. Shavinina
- 11:Transitioning Musical Abilities into Expertise and Beyond: The Role of Psychosocial Skills in Developing Prodigious Talent, Rena Subotnik, Linda Jarvin, Andrew Thomas, & Geesoo Maie Lee
- 12:Growing-Up Prodigies: The Midlife Crisis, Jeanne Bamberger
- 13:Musical Prodigies and Motivation, Andrew J. Martin
- 14:Musical Prodigies: Does Talent Need Trauma?, Aine MacNamara, Dave Collins, & Patricia Holmes
- 15:Prodigies of Music Composition: Cognitive Abilities and Developmental Antecedents, Lena Quinto, Paolo Ammirante, Michael H. Connors, and William Forde Thompson
- 16:Development of timing skills, Thenille Braun Janzen, William Forde Thompson, & Paolo Ammirante
- 17:Igor: a case study of a child drummer prodigy, Simone Dalla Bella, Jakub Sowi?ski, Nicolas Farrugia, and Magdalena Berkowska
- 18:The career decisions of musical prodigies, Jae Yup Jung & Paul Evans
- 19:Musical Prodigies Within the Virtual Stage of YouTube, Freya de Mink & Gary E. McPherson
- 20:Synaesthesia and Child Prodigiousness: The Case of Olivier Messiaen, Solange Glasser
- 21:The development and nurture of prodigious musical talent in blind children with autism and learning difficulties: identifying and educating potential musical savants, Adam Ockelford
- 22:Veridical mapping in the development of autistic musical prodigies, Laurent Mottron & Lucie Bouvet
- Section Three: Individual Examples
- 23:Proofs of genius: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the construction of musical prodigies in early Georgian London, Rachel Cowgill
- 24:Mozart the Child Performer-Composer: New Musical-Biographical Perspectives on the Early Years to 1766, Simon P. Keefe
- 25:Beethoven: An Understated Prodigy, Siân Derry
- 26:The 'Second Mozart': Mendelssohn and Precocity Revisited, R. Larry Todd
- 27: Teresa Carreno: "Such gifts are of God, and ought not to be prostituted for mere gain", Anna E. Kijas
- 28:A folk song prodigy? Considering the exceptional musical childhood of Chilean folklorist Margot Loyola, Dan Bendrups
- 29:Glenn Gould: Conventional Prodigy, Unconventional Professional, S. Timothy Maloney
- 30:André Mathieu (1929-1968): The Emblematic Case of the "Young Canadian Mozart", Danick Trottier
- 31:Jack Teagarden's Southwestern Sound: A Musical Prodigy and His Field, Alex W. Rodriguez
- 32:"Little" Stevie Wonder: Motown Musical Prodigy, Gabriel Solis
- 33:"You can't win, child, but you can't get out of the game": Michael Jackson's transition from child star to superstar., Jacqueline Warwick
- 34:Jason Becker: Musicality Begets Musicianship in a Heavy Metal Guitar Prodigy, Mike Heffley
- 35:Justin Bieber, YouTube, and New Media Celebrity: The Tween Prodigy at Home and Online, Tyler Bickford