Chapter
Music Acquisition and Effects of Musical Experience
Abstract
Rather little is known about how children acquire musical knowledge. However, everyday exposure to the music of one’s culture does lead to implicit knowledge about its pitch and rhythmic structure, just as exposure to a particular language leads to implicit knowledge about its structure. While all children attend school with the goal of becoming literate, some children engage in formal music training whereas others do not. Thus music offers the …
Authors
Trainor LJ; Corrigall KA
Book title
Music Perception
Series
Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
Volume
36
Pagination
pp. 89-127
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2010
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4419-6114-3_4