MUSICALITY AND PERSONALITY

A Report on Musicality and Personality



A Report on Musicality and Personality

Introduction

It is known that the harmony of an individual is possible only when the normal, equilibrium formation of two main areas of the psyche - the intellectual and emotional, subject to the "unity of intellect and passion." We also know that in the preschool child, the emotional sphere is the leading mental sphere. Under this influence is determining the formation of a child's higher mental functions, behavior and personality in general. Music is the most difficult of all arts. Its complexity is determined not so much that it consists of a very large number of different means of musical expression as abstract musical art image. With these features music related to the complexity and individuality of the augmented perception. The music is a temporal art, it flows over time, which makes it very difficult problem of the perception of coherent musical image.

It is known that the harmony of an individual is possible only when the normal, equilibrium formation of two main areas of the psyche - the intellectual and emotional, is subject to the "unity of intellect and passion." We also know that for preschool child, the emotional sphere is the leading mental sphere. Under her influence is determining the formation of a child's higher mental functions, behavior and personality in general.

A huge role in the development of the emotional sphere is art, it is a phenomenon primarily emotional by nature. To the greatest extent it relates to music, which, by definition, a remarkable professor V. Medushevsky, is "a model of human emotions." Music reflects our attitude to the world, to everything that surrounds us, and there is in us: for nature, the world of ideas, social events and deeply personal. Thus, there are phenomena and our attitude towards them, which expresses and music. But the attitude - it is emotion.

Features of music as an art of reflection not only simple but also very complex emotions, as the art of expressing the multifaceted relations of man to the world and make yourself content and language of music for private rights in the early stages of its development. The musicality is viewed as the driving force for music, the other temporal arts, interpersonal communication and the origins of language. These ideas, which build on psychoanalytic foundations (e.g., Stern, 2004), diverge from mainstream approaches to the psychology of music both in theory and in standards of evidence. That is not to imply that the evidence is substandard, but it is unquestionably different. Rich observations of single cases or small samples are interpreted through the theoretical lens of the observer - a stance that will be applauded or bemoaned by readers with matching or mismatching lenses. Subscribers to conventional scientific approaches should be forewarned.

It is important to note, however, that some contributors to this volume remain neutral with respect to the editors' underlying assumptions. In other cases, the thrust or merit of their work is independent of the merits of ...