Stefanie Stadler Elmer

Stefanie Stadler Elmer
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.
  • Professor Emeritus at University of Zurich

supervising doctoral students

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Introduction
vocal development, song singing, micro-genetic analysis, developmental psychology, arts education
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University of Zurich
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  • Professor Emeritus

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Our study explores the in-situ practice of ten pre-service generalist teachers (PreGTs) and reconstructs their intentions, self-evaluations and self-judgments regarding their song leading in class. In this paper, we present the qualitative content analysis of the semi- structured questionnaires that the participants completed each year after the in...
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Through micro-genetic analysis of early singing, I describe and explain the complexity of song as an elementary cultural expression. For educators, it is important to understand the key role of song with and by young children as a means to convey feelings and musico-linguistic rules. Song consists of melody and lyrics, both of which are connected b...
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From a biological point of view, the singing of songs is based on the human vocal learning capacity. It is universally widespread in all cultures. The transmission of songs is an elementary cultural practice, by which members of the older generations introduce both musico-linguistic rules and affect-regulative means to the younger ones. Traditional...
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In educational research, audio-video recordings allow observing a lesson repeatedly. The collected data needs to be transcribed for analysis. Although methodologies for transcribing video-recorded lessons are established, there is lack of transcription methodologies for certain types of lessons, such as in arts education or the teaching to create n...
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This text deals with current research on the transmission of songs at school and its the- oretical rationales. Based on anthropological and structure-genetic considerations, it provides arguments and reasons for teaching, learning, and sharing songs in formal ed- ucation. The intergenerational transmission of songs, the human-specific vocal learnin...
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In this chapter I explore the proposal that singing is the earliest musical expression and even the candidate precursor of speaking. I postulate canonical babbling to be the precursor not only of speech but of song as well, and I argue that syllables are the building blocks of both, yet differently formed and organized. Accordingly, I outline and e...
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Zusammenfassung: Wie entsteht Musikalität und wie wird sie gefördert? Die angeborene Fähigkeit vokal zu lernen, ermöglicht es dem Menschen, singen und sprechen zu lernen. Beiden vokalen Formen gemeinsam sind die Silben als Bauelement. Dieses Kapitel erklärt, warum Kinder früher zu singen als zu sprechen beginnen, und warum für sie Kinderlieder trot...
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In this chapter I explore the proposal that singing is the earliest musical expression and even the candidate precursor of speaking. I postulate canonical babbling to be the precursor not only of speech but of song as well, and I argue that syllables are the building blocks of both, yet differently formed and organized. Accordingly, I outline and e...
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The research literature on the professional development of educators and generalist teachers emphasises the need to improve their knowledge and skills in music, especially on the song leading capacity. There is consensus that generalist teachers and educators should have basic music knowledge and skills and should have gained con dence in their mus...
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Research with pre-service generalist on their developing professional conduct needs to identify the resources or strengths as well as the weaknesses or shortcomings. Pre-service teachers differ widely in their song leading capacity. Hence, we trace their individual developmental pathways to gain a broad view on the phenomena. In this contribution,...
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En début de scolarité, chanter et mettre en œuvre des activités de chansons avec de jeunes élèves a toujours fait partie de la culture et des répertoires de pratique des enseignantes et enseignants généralistes : une activité à forte composante sociale qui implique le corps et l’esprit. L’objectif de notre recherche consiste à décrire la manière do...
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Dieser Beitrag thematisiert die mehrsprachige Kooperation im Forschungsprojekt „Song Leading‟ als gelebte Praxis und mit Bezug zu aktuellen wissenschaftstheoretischen Debatten über die Rolle von Sprachen im Prozess des „Wissen Schaffens‟ und dessen Verbreitung und Anwendung.
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Das zweite Kapitel handelt von funktionalen Aspekten von Musik in der menschlichen Kultur. Musik ist ein Bestandteil des Zusammenlebens und vor allem der rituellen Kultur. Musik dient nicht dazu, ein konkretes Ergebnis oder Produkt zu erzeugen (instrumentelle Kultur); vielmehr stehen das Tradieren und Zelebrieren von geregelten Formen des sozialen...
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Im fünften Kapitel werden die frühen Anfänge von Musikalität ausgehend von den elementaren musikalischen Aktivitäten behandelt: Schallwahrnehmung, Vokalisation und Bewegungen. Die frühen Vokalisationen differenzieren sich durch die Kommunikation mit Bezugspersonen allmählich zu sing- und sprechähnlichen Formen. Eine lange Zeit galten frühe Vokalisa...
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Die weitere Entwicklung des Hörens, Singens und der Bewegungen ist Gegenstand von Kapitel sechs. Die großen individuellen Unterschiede in den musikalischen Fähigkeiten sprechen dafür, die Variabilität ins Zentrum des entwicklungspsychologischen Interesses zu stellen und die Strategien zu untersuchen, wie Menschen auf vielfältige Weise lernen, sich...
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Das erste Kapitel zeigt auf, dass die Verwendung des Begriffs „Musik“ in der Erziehungspraxis nicht einfach ist. Was soll man beobachten und fördern? Was ist Musik? Was entwickelt sich? Der Körper und die elementaren musikalischen Aktivitäten, die sich von ganz früh an entwickeln, stehen im Mittelpunkt: die Schallwahrnehmung oder das Hören, die Vok...
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Im letzten Kapitel plädiere ich dafür, die im heutigen Rahmen von Erziehungswissenschaft und Entwicklungspsychologie noch wenig beachtete Bedeutung der Musikkultur besser zu integrieren und in der Erziehungspraxis – vor allem der frühen Bildung – zu nutzen. Hier stellen sich bildungspolitische und fachdidaktische Fragen, die das Kernanliegen von Er...
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Im dritten Kapitel werden die Strukturen von Musik untersucht. Von den vier Grundeigenschaften Lautstärke, Klangfarbe, Tonhöhe und Zeit werden die beiden letzten generativ geregelt: Unsere Wahrnehmung und unsere Tätigkeiten kategorisieren die kontinuierlichen Dimensionen von Tonhöhe und Zeit in diskrete Einheiten, welche mit kulturspezifische Regel...
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Das vierte Kapitel nimmt die Grundlagen der vorherigen auf und zeigt auf, wie Kinderlieder als erste rituelle Kulturform, mit denen Kinder aufwachsen, geregelt sind. Sprachliche und musikalische Elemente werden durch Regeln oder eine Grammatik so zusammengebracht, dass Wohlgeformtheit erzielt werden kann. Kinderlieder sind ein typisches Beispiel fü...
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Im siebten Kapitel wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie die Phänomene und Erkenntnisse zur musikalischen Entwicklung anhand von abstrakten Prinzipen geordnet werden. Dieses Kapitel zeigt auf, dass die theoretische Arbeit zur musikalischen Entwicklung noch wenig weit gediehen ist und dass zuverlässige Beschreibungen, Analysen, Erklärungen und ein kohäre...
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"Music" from a structure-genetic view: phenomena, cultural and evolutionary views (functions), 'music' form acoustic, musicological, generative-systemic, body-action or sensory-motor and stuctural view. The grammar of children's songs as a generative system consisting of language and music - lyrics and melody. Learning and development in a nutshell...
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Early song singing is a natural phenomenon still rarely studied. It reveals a child's access to both music and language within a cultural setting, on the basis of predisposed human faculties. In this study a young (1 year and 8 months) girl's singing of a traditional song was analysed with computer-aided methods. The results show that she produced...
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An increasing number of studies provide evidence for an early or even innate capacity of human beings for music. Whereas research on infant perception has made huge progress and gained most attention, this article focuses early musical productivity and thereby the most prominent and earliest form, that is vocalisation. How does infant vocalisation...
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An increasing number of studies provide evidence for an early or even innate capacity of human beings for music. Whereas research on infant perception has made huge progress and gained most attention, this article focuses early musical productivity and thereby the most prominent and earliest form, that is vocalisation. How does infant vocalisation...
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The aim of this article is to propose a revision of models of singing development that identify age-related stages of mastery of basic elements of the Western-European music system. Instead, emphasis is placed on structural and process-oriented approaches, on growing meta-cognitive strategies, on conceptual analyses that go beyond Western-European...
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The aim of this article is to propose a revision of models of singing development that identify age-related stages of mastery of basic elements of the Western-European music system. Instead, emphasis is placed on structural and process-oriented approaches, on growing meta-cognitive strategies, on conceptual analyses that go beyond Western-European...
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Singing is a universal and biologically based ability that develops parallel with speaking or even precedes it. From the viewpoint of a structural genetic constructivism, singing emerges from the earliest vocal play - and it is the earliest musical expression. The prolongation of vowels - one of the culture-free defining features of singing - creat...
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Low educations achievement is a risk to become socially excluded. What can music education contribute to children’s education? There is increasing evidence that children benefit from regular and playful musical stimulations from early in life. Among the beneficial domains are language and communication. A brief review on recent studies is given. Ne...
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Vocal development had been studied mostly with a focus on speaking, and only rarely, on singing. Traditional theories on singing development are often based on wrong premises, e.g. eurocentrism, and reliable analyses of singing are missing or selective. A new theory - inspired by the principles of Piaget's theory -, and a new methodology - based on...
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Background in psychology. The analysis of actually performed melodies – either sung or produced by an instrument – had been an intricate issue. So far, performed melodies were analysed either by mere listening combined with approximated notation, by expert ratings with respect to certain criteria (e.g. accuracy), or by transformation into midi form...
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Vocalization is the most common, primitive and universal musical expression. All essential parameters are present: pitch and timing of vowels, and loudness. Yet, the analysis of vocal musical production is an intricate issue. This pa- per has three aims: First, a new methodology for analyzing and representing children's singing is introduced. This...
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5.1 Einleitung: Singen als elementarer sprach-­‐musikalischer Ausdruck Zu den Besonderheiten, die den Menschen von anderen höher entwickelten Primaten unterscheidet, gehört ein variationsreiches Potenzial an vokal-­‐artikulatorischen Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten. Dieses ist phylogenetisch entstanden und biologisch determiniert. Im Verlaufe der Evolution...
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Zusammenfassung: Musik soll den Charakter bilden, die Intelligenz und soziale Kompetenz steigern. Ein Einblick in die Geschichte der Singkultur zeigt, dass diese Aussagen in dieser Form nicht stimmen. Um die Rolle der Musik in einer Gesellschaft zu verstehen, braucht es eine Analyse der Funktionen des Singens, denn Singen ist die einfachste und am...
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Dieser Beitrag diskutiert das Thema curricularer Normen und einige Probleme der musikalischen Ausbildung von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern. Gilt die Norm, dass Musik zur Allgemeinbildung gehört, so hat dies Folgen für die Gestaltung der Ausbildung auf allen Ebenen. Es werden wissenschaftsorientierte Grundsätze und praktische Vorgehensweisen vorgeschlagen...
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In Juni 2001 this book has been accepted as a habilitation in psychology – a further qualification after the PhD – at the University of Zurich. To use one’s own voice is the earliest and most primitive way to produce musical sounds. The voice provides a rich variety of expressive forms of which speaking, singing, and chant are the most important o...
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Die klangliche Gestaltung von Sprache ist eine komplex strukturierte Handlung, die in der Form von Liedern als vielseitiges und variabel geregeltes Kulturgut praktiziert wird. Text und Melodie werden derart koordiniert, dass eine parallel hierarchische Organisation entsteht, die eine kohärente Einheit bildet. Die Lied-Erfindungen einer Person bring...
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In psychological and cross-cultural (e.g. ethnomusicological) research the analysis of song-singing had always been an intricate and serious obstacle. Singing is a tran- sient and mostly unstable patterning of vocal sounds that is organized by applying more or less linguistic and musical rules. Traditionally, a sung performance has been analyzed by...
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The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it briefly characterizes how Piaget's theory has been mainly applied in music psychology and education to date. After discussing the major shortcomings of this approach, the co re elements of the theory as applied to music are re-evaluated. Second, a new theoretical approach is proposed and elaborated in...
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Discusses individual childrens process in acquiring new songs that is based on structure-genetic constructivism, a theory in the tradition of Piaget, through a microanalytic approach. Provides a graphic representation of a childs consecutive singing and also addresses joint singing, pitch quality, and strategies of applying melodic patterns.
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The present review of the literature on singing development uses a structure-genetic constructivist approach in the tradition of Piaget. "Singing" is first defined, and then the social contexts for singing are specified and categorized according to effective norms. This categorization is used as a framework in classifying the literature. Next, the...
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Reviews the book, Musical Beginnings: Origins and Development of Musical Competence by Irène Deliège and John A. Sloboda (1996). This book consists of four sections arranged into eight chapters: "The Fetal Stage" (Chapter 1), "From the Baby to the Infant" (Chapters 2, 3, and 4), "Time and Childhood" (Chapter 5), and "School Age" (Chapters 6, 7, and...
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Aus der theoretischen Perspektive eines strukturgenetischen Konstruktivismus in der Tradition von Piaget wird eine Literaturuebersicht zur Singentwicklung gegeben. Nach einer Begriffsbestimmung von "Singen" werden sozial unterschiedlich genormte Kontexte fuer Singen unterschieden. Sodann dient diese Einteilung der ueberblicksmaessigen Darstellung v...

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