Week 10 (26 Mar 2003): Do we see what we hear? Do we hear what we say?

Guest lecture by Jeanne Bamberger
( jbamb@mit.edu; http://web.mit.edu/jbamb )

1. Student summaries of the class.
   
   
2. References for today's lecture:
   
   
   
   • Notes on the first reference
     "Turning Music theory on its ear." by Jeanne Bamberger (1996).
     International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, Vol.1 No.1.

   • Notes on the second reference
     "Music as embodied mathematics: a study of a mutually informing affinity."
     by Jeanne Bamberger (2003). To appear in the
     International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning.
   
   
   
3. Other references:
   
   
   "Developing Musical Intuition --
   a project-based approach to making and understanding music."
   by Jeanne Bamberger (2000). Oxford University Press (ISBN:0-19-510571-0)
   Incorporating Impromptu: an interactive software application
   by Jeanne Bamberger and Armando Hernandez

Jeanne (Shapiro) Bamberger studied with Artur Schnabel while a student at Columbia University. After concertizing in Europe and following studies with Olivier Messiaen on a Fulbright fellowship, she returned to graduate studies with Roger Sessions at UC Berkeley. She received her degrees in philosophy and music theory.

Jeanne Bamberger's academic career, which incidentally began at USC, has taken her progressively eastward ( --> University of Chicago --> Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) and covers a wide spectrum from musicology to music theory to artificial intelligence to urban education. Jeanne Bamberger is currently Professor of Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she teaches music theory and music cognition. Her interests include learning and the development of music cognition in both children and adults.

She lectures widely and has presented talks at the Piaget Society in Philadelphia, the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center, the New England Conservatory and MIT's Media Lab Europe. She is an active participant in outreach activities such as the Fourth World Movement and is a consultant to sound and music exhibits at the San Francisco Exploratorium. Her most recent books include "The mind behind the musical ear" and "Developing musical intuitions: A project based introduction to making and understanding music".

Posted 31 Mar 2003.