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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The musical art of infant conversation: Narrating in the time of sympathetic experience, without rational interpretation, before words
Contributor:
Trevarthen, Colwyn
Published:
SAGE Publications, 2008
Published in:
Musicae Scientiae, 12 (2008) 1_suppl, Seite 15-46
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1177/1029864908012001021
ISSN:
1029-8649;
2045-4147
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>Infants, like adults and many animals, move with rhythmic gestures that express motive states and changes of emotion and mood. But the communications of babies have a special creativity and message power. Infants are ready at birth to take turns in a “dialogue” of movements with a loving parent. They are attracted to extended engagement with human gestures, and sympathetic to many emotions — resonating to the impulses and qualities of movement; imitating, seeking to play an active part in proto-conversations or playful duets of agency (Trevarthen, 1999). When the expressive forms are examined in detail, infant and partner are found to be sharing a subtle “musicality” of communication (Malloch, 1999). Very soon the early musical games become the habits or conventions of a mini-culture, improvised creations of meaning for each pair, of the kind that Maya Gratier calls a “proto-habitus” (Gratier, 2007). They become treasured memories of a special relationship.</jats:p>