The Psychology of a Musical Prodigy

This is Volume XV of twenty-one in the Cognitive Psychology series. Published in 1925, this study looks at the view of musical art, in an extraordinarily gifted child, whom the author studied with the aid of the methods at his disposal, endeavouring to discover the extent of his mental capacity and, in connection with this, to establish what influences determined the development of his musical talent. Chapter 1 Introductory; Chapter 2 Life of Erwin Nyiregyházi; Chapter 3 On the Early Appearance of Musical Talent in General; Chapter 4 On the General Aspect of Musical Talent; Chapter 5 Diagnosis of Erwin’s Mental Capacity by the aid of Tests; Chapter 6 Investigation of Elementary Acoustic and Musical Faculties; Chapter 7 Transposing, Reading at Sight, Playing from the Score, Musical Transcription; Chapter 8 Erwin’s Musical Memory; Chapter 9 Erwin as a Pianist; Chapter 10 Improvizing and Modulating; Chapter 11 Compositions; Chapter 12 Progress of Erwin’s Creative Musical Development as shown in his Works;