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Music cognition in early infancy: infants’ preferences and long-term memory for Ravel

2006; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 24; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/0255761406063100

1744-795X

Beatriz Ilari, Linda Polka,

Diverse Music Education Insights

Listening preferences for two pieces, Prelude and Forlane from Le tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), were assessed in two experiments conducted with 8-month-old infants, using the Headturn Preference Procedure (HPP). Experiment 1 showed that infants, who have never heard the pieces, could clearly make a distinction between the Prelude and Forlane when the latter are played in multiple (i.e. orchestral) but not single (i.e. piano) timbres. In Experiment 2 infants were exposed repeatedly to one of the two piano pieces over a 10-day period. Concurrent with previous studies, results suggested that babies can recognize a familiar piece after a 2-week delay. Implications for early childhood music education are outlined at the end of the article.