Music in the Lives of Young Children

<p>This annotated anthology documents historical trends and basic findings regarding music in early childhood education, development, and care. </p><p>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. </p><p>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 <i>Early Child Development and Care</i>. Each paper concludes with an annotation note supplied by the principle author addressing how they see their article from the perspective of today.</p> <p>Introduction. Music in early childhood education and care: Past and present</p><p>Wilfried Gruhn and Warren Brodsky</p><p>Part I: Caregiving – Parenting</p><p>1. On musical parenting of young children: Musical beliefs and behaviors of mothers and infants</p><p>Beatriz S. Ilari</p><p>Annotation by Beatriz S. Ilari</p><p>2. Caregiving in counterpoint: Reciprocal influences in the musical parenting of younger and older infants </p><p>Lori A. Custodero and Elissa A. Johnson-Green</p><p>Annotation by Lori A. Custodero and Elissa A. Johnson-Green</p><p>3. Music at home with the under-fives: What is happening? </p><p>Peter de Vries </p><p>Annotation by Linda Lorenza</p><p>4. The musical dimension of daily routines with under-four children during diaper change, bedtime and free-play</p><p>Anna Rita Addessi </p><p>Annotation by Anna Rita Addessi</p><p>5. The communicative characteristics of musical interactions compared with play interactions between mothers and their one-year-old infants</p><p>Orit Mualem and Pnina S. Klein</p><p>Annotation by Orit Mualem</p><p>6. The effects of music and movement on mother–infant interactions</p><p>Wendy Vlismas, Stephen Malloch, and Denis Burnham</p><p>Annotation by Wendy Vlismas, Stephen Malloch, and Denis Burnham</p><p>7. Musical engagement among families with young children: A CMBI (V.972) study</p><p>Warren Brodsky, Idit Sulkin, and Michal Hefer</p><p>Annotation by Warren Brodsky</p><p>Part II: Musical Development</p><p>8. Octave generalization in young children</p><p>Desmond Sergeant</p><p>Annotation by Desmond Sergeant</p><p>9. Music and language development in early childhood: Integrating past research in the two domains</p><p>Lily Chen-Hafteck</p><p>Annotation by Lily Chen-Hafteck</p><p>10. Music perception and cognition in the first year of life</p><p>Beatriz S. Ilari </p><p>Annotation by Beatriz S. Ilari</p><p>11. Mozart Effect in preschool children? </p><p>Ken Hui</p><p>Annotation by E. Glenn Schellenberg</p><p>12. Towards constructions of musical childhoods: Diversity and digital technologies</p><p>Susan Young</p><p>Annotation by Susan Young</p><p>13. Infants’ attention to synthesised baby music and original acoustic music</p><p>Carla H. Merkow and Eugenia Costa-Giomi</p><p>Annotation by Eugenia Costa-Giomi</p><p>Part III: Musical Aspects – Singing, Movement, and Teaching</p><p>14. Contributions to an understanding of the music and movement connection </p><p>Susan Young</p><p>Annotation by Susan Young</p><p>15. Piano keyboard training and the spatial–temporal development of young children attending kindergarten classes in Greece</p><p>Nikolaos Zafranas </p><p>Annotation by Nikolaos Zafranas</p><p>16. Handclapping songs: A spontaneous platform for child development among 5-10-year-old children</p><p>Warren Brodsky and Idit Sulkin</p><p>Annotation by Idit Sulkin</p><p>17. ‘Bejazzled’: Employing attributes of pre-schoolers’ play to facilitate musical interactions with jazz</p><p>Mignon van Vreden</p><p>Annotation by Mignon van Vreden</p><p>18. The effects of Orff-based attention-enhancing music education programme on impulsive preschool children’s cognitive tempo</p><p>Gökhan Kayili and Özden Kuşcu</p><p>Annotation by Özden Kuşcu and Gökhan Kayili</p>