Creativity SRIG sponsored
Jeanne Bamberger tribute issue of VRME now available. Message from the editors,
S. Alex Ruthman and
Gena R. Greher:
At the 2010 meeting of the Creativity SRIG, we were treated to a keynote presentation by eminent music cognition scholar Jeanne Bamberger. For over 40 years, her research and scholarship in the fields of music cognition, music learning, intuition and creativity has had, and continues to have, a profound international impact within and beyond music-related fields.
After her presentation, the Creativity SRIG announced a call for submissions to a special tribute issue of Visions of Research in Music Education (VRME) in honor of Jeanne’s work and career. We are thrilled to announce the publication of that tribute issue as
Volume 20 of
Visions of Research in Music Education .
We chose to partner with VRME because it is an online, open-access publication. This ensures easy and continued access to this Volume for you, your students and researchers in and outside of music education. Additionally, VRME has a tradition of publishing out-of-print and hard to find historical reprints. Following in that tradition, we are happy to announce the reprinting of one of Jeanne’s seminal essays Developing Musical Structures: Going Beyond the Simples, originally published as a book chapter in a collection honoring the work of David Lewin.
Preparing a special issue such as this could not happen without the many hours of work by many people. First, we’d like to thank VRME Editor, Frank Abrahams, for partnering with us in this project and providing space to share this work with the World. Also, we thank Creativity SRIG Chair-Elect Katy Strand and Past-Chair Thom Priest for their continued advice and support, and to the anonymous reviewers who helped us and the authors shape and clarify work in this special issue.
This special issue of VRME contains 12 feature articles and essays with authors hailing from Australia, Germany, Israel, the UK and the US:
Editorial
Gena R. Greher & Alex Ruthmann - Curiosity, Creativity and Cognition: A Window into Jeanne Bamberger’s Work.
Featured Articles
Howard Gardner - Tribute to Jeanne Bamberger: Pre-eminent Student of Musical Development and Cognition in Our Time.
Gena R. Greher & S. Alex Ruthmann - On Chunking, Simples and Paradoxes: Why Jeanne Bamberger’s Research Matters.
Andrew Brown - Experience Design and Interactive Software in Music Education Research.
Kimberley Lansinger Ankney - Building and Composing upon Musical Knowledge.
Michael P. Downton, Kylie A. Peppler, Adena Portowitz, Jeanne Bamberger, & Eric Lindsay - Composing Pieces for Peace: Using Impromptu to Build Cross-Cultural Awareness.
Jessica Krash - Reminiscence on Studying with Jeanne Bamberger.
Joyce Kouffman - Jeanne Bamberger - Vignettes from 1974-1976.
Wilfred Gruhn - Representations of Music - Neural Foundations and Mental Processes.
Craig Graci - Channeling Bamberger: An Unorthodox Appreciation of Jeanne Bamberger’s work on Musical Development and Musical Understanding.
Elaine Chew - About Time: Strategies of Performance Revealed in Graphs.
Christopher F. Hasty - Learning in Time.
Deborah V. Blair - Do you hear what I hear? Musical Maps and Felt Pathways of Musical Understanding. (a reprint from VRME Volume 11)
Historical Reprint:
Jeanne Bamberger - Developing Musical Structures: Going Beyond the Simples.
Access to these articles and essays may be found at
http:www-usr.rider.edu/~vrme .
