Bamberger

Jeanne Bamberger (Professor Emerita of Music and Urban Education, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Visiting Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley)

Jeanne Bamberger is Emerita Professor of Music and Urban Education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she taught music theory, music cognition, and was Director of the Teacher Preparation Program in Math and Science. Her interests include musical development and learning, in particular aspects of representations among both children and adults. She was a student of Artur Schnabel and Roger Sessions and has performed extensively as piano soloist and in chamber music ensembles. She attended Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley receiving degrees in philosophy and music theory. Her most recent books include (1995) The mind behind the musical ear (Harvard University Press), (2000) Developing musical intuitions: A project based introduction to making and understanding music (Oxford University Press), and (2013) Discovering the musical mind: A view of creativity as learning (Oxford University Press). 

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