Music in the Lives of Young Children

Warren Brodsky is Associate Professor of Music Psychology in the Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel. He was Registered, Certified, and Board Certified as a clinical music therapist (1984-2000, in the USA, the UK, Israel). Warren completed a PhD degree in Psychology at Keele University (UK, 1995). He was the recipient of two Post-Doctoral Fellowships at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1996-2001). He is Director of the Music Science Lab at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests include musical skill and development, the effects of music on driving behaviour, and positive aging among professional symphony orchestra musicians. Wilfried Gruhn is Professor Emeritus of Music Education. He completed a PhD in Musicology (1967). He was the President of the International Research Alliance of Institutes for Music Education (1995-1997), a Board Member of the International Society for Music Education (2000-2004), the founder/first Director of the Gordon Institute of Early Childhood Music Learning in Freiburg (Germany, 2003-2009), and the founder/first President of the International Leo Kestenberg Society (2009). His research areas include historical research on music education, and empirical studies on perception, cognition, and the neurobiological foundations of music learning.

• Introduction. Music in early childhood education and care: Past and presentWilfried Gruhn and Warren BrodskyPart I: Caregiving – Parenting1. On musical parenting of young children: Musical beliefs and behaviors of mothers and infantsBeatriz S. IlariAnnotation by Beatriz S. Ilari2. Caregiving in counterpoint: Reciprocal influences in the musical parenting of younger and older infants Lori A. Custodero and Elissa A. Johnson-GreenAnnotation by Lori A. Custodero and Elissa A. Johnson-Green3. Music at home with the under-fives: What is happening? Peter de Vries Annotation by Linda Lorenza4. The musical dimension of daily routines with under-four children during diaper change, bedtime and free-playAnna Rita Addessi Annotation by Anna Rita Addessi5. The communicative characteristics of musical interactions compared with play interactions between mothers and their one-year-old infantsOrit Mualem and Pnina S. KleinAnnotation by Orit Mualem6. The effects of music and movement on mother–infant interactionsWendy Vlismas, Stephen Malloch, and Denis BurnhamAnnotation by Wendy Vlismas, Stephen Malloch, and Denis Burnham7. Musical engagement among families with young children: A CMBI (V.972) studyWarren Brodsky, Idit Sulkin, and Michal HeferAnnotation by Warren BrodskyPart II: Musical Development8. Octave generalization in young childrenDesmond SergeantAnnotation by Desmond Sergeant9. Music and language development in early childhood: Integrating past research in the two domainsLily Chen-HafteckAnnotation by Lily Chen-Hafteck10. Music perception and cognition in the first year of lifeBeatriz S. Ilari Annotation by Beatriz S. Ilari11. Mozart Effect in preschool children? Ken HuiAnnotation by E. Glenn Schellenberg12. Towards constructions of musical childhoods: Diversity and digital technologiesSusan YoungAnnotation by Susan Young13. Infants’ attention to synthesised baby music and original acoustic musicCarla H. Merkow and Eugenia Costa-GiomiAnnotation by Eugenia Costa-GiomiPart III: Musical Aspects – Singing, Movement, and Teaching14. Contributions to an understanding of the music and movement connection Susan YoungAnnotation by Susan Young15. Piano keyboard training and the spatial–temporal development of young children attending kindergarten classes in GreeceNikolaos Zafranas Annotation by Nikolaos Zafranas16. Handclapping songs: A spontaneous platform for child development among 5-10-year-old childrenWarren Brodsky and Idit SulkinAnnotation by Idit Sulkin17. ‘Bejazzled’: Employing attributes of pre-schoolers’ play to facilitate musical interactions with jazzMignon van VredenAnnotation by Mignon van Vreden18. The effects of Orff-based attention-enhancing music education programme on impulsive preschool children’s cognitive tempoGökhan Kayili and Özden KuşcuAnnotation by Özden Kuşcu and Gökhan Kayili