Foreword by Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Musical Abilities
The expressive ear for music
The sense of rhythm
The analytical ear
Musical Giftedness
The giftedness of the composer
The giftedness of the performer
The Structure of Musical Talent
The Education of the Musician
Musical talent and heredity
Teacher and pupil
The phenomenon of the musical wunderkind
Homo Musicus
Dina Kirnarskaya is Professor of Psychology and
Musicology, Russian Gnesins' Academy of Music, Moscow, Russia.
`Kirnarskaya's research is important and thought provoking. She
thinks originally, she knows a great deal about music, and she has
been carrying out research on musical abilities for many years. She
is one of the few scholars with training in both musicology and
empirical psychology, and as such she is pioneering in psychology
of music.
'
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard
University, and author of Changing Minds
`...one of those deceptive books which reads like a gripping
novel... all you have to do is open it to a random page to convince
yourself. Is musical talent inherited or taught? Is it rational or
irrational in nature? And for you yourself - can you determine
whether you can become an Oistrakh or at least a Yngwie Malmsteen?
The pleasure you'll get from reading The Natural Musician will be
enormous, regardless of what musical genre is yours and how
seriously
you pursue it - even if you're just an ordinary sort who sways to
the music.
'
Rolling Stone Magazine
`I do not know of a book analogous to this one in the literature on
musical talent, as no book so actively and extensively draws upon
the whole spectrum of contemporary scientific and scholarly
knowledge in the field. It is written clearly, with a light touch
and without the burden of heavy-duty terminology.Every judgment
expressed here is based on and fed by a wealth of scholarly and
scientific material. A better understanding of the musical gift
will lead
any of us, as the author shows, to a deeper understanding of the
essence of any gift in our possession.
'
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Conductor
`... a very knowledgeable and original musicologist and
psychologist. She has written a comprehensive book on the topic of
musical ability - including creating, performing, and listening to
music. This is an excellent, scholarly, well-written, and original
book that should have wide appeal to musicians, psychologists, and
the general educated public interested in the question of talents
and where they come from.
I would most definitely recommend this scholarly but highly
readable book filled with wonderful examples from the world of
musicians as well as from the research findings in the experimental
psychology of music.
'
Ellen Winner, Professor of Psychology, Boston College
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