1. The Biological Ear Program 1
2. Development of Auditory Capacity in the Early Infancy (0-2 years-old) Program 2
3. Nature of Musical Ability Program 3
4. Development of Musical Ability in the Infancy - I. (Preschool Children: 0-6 years-old) Program 4
5. Development of Musical Ability in the Infancy - II. (Primary School Children: 6-12 years-old) Program 5
6. Language Physiology Program 6
7. Recent Models On Language Program 7
8. Technics and Didactics of Vocal Training Program 8 On LINE Course
9. Assessment of Gross Developmental Language Disorders (DLD) in Infancy Program 9
10. Music and Language Program 10
11. Aphasia and Speech' s Melodic Aspects Program 11
12. An Historical Review of the Amusias Program 12
13. Music and Medicine Program 13 New !
14. Music and the Brain Program 14
15. History of Tonality Program 15 On LINE Course
16. Creativity and Genius Program 16
17. Anatomy of Audition Program 17
18. The Musical Mind Program 18 New !

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS AUDITORY PERCEPTION - 1. The Ear of Mammals / Auditory Perception - 2. Cochlea Inhibition / Auditory Perception - 3. Cortical Responses to Frequency Modulation (FM). (WITHFIELD & EVANS, 1965) / Auditory Perception - 4. Bats / Auditory Perception - 5. Cortical Responses to Frequency Modulation (FM). Bats (SUGA, 1965) / STATIONS of TRANSIT in the AUDITORY SYSTEM (1 - 3) / ANATOMIC AND PHYSIOLOGIC STUDIES IN ANIMALS (1) / Anatomic and Physiological Studies in Animals (2) - Bechterew' s Approach / Anatomic and Physiological Studies in Animals (3 - 4).- Kalischer' s Approach (I / II) / Anatomic and Physiological Studies in Animals (5) - Neuronographyc Technics / Anatomic and Physiological Studies in Animals (6) - Dogs / Anatomic and Physiological Studies in Animals (7) - Summary / CATEGORICAL AUDITORY PERCEPTION (1 - 2) / Categorical Auditory Perception (5 - 8)

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS: ASSOCIATION AREAS (I - II) / CATEGORICAL AUDITORY PERCEPTION - III (General) / Categorical Auditory Perception in MUSICIANS and Non-MUSICIANS / Anatomic Asymmetries in Human Planum Temporale - (1-4) / CORTICAL AREAS of LANGUAGE (1 - 10) / HEMISPHERIC PROCESSING of PHONOLOGICAL INFORMATION (1): Normal Population / Hemispheric Processing of Phonological Information (2): Brain Damaged Population - 1 / Hemispheric Processing of Phonological Information (3): Brain Damaged Population - 2 / Hemispheric Processing of Phonological Information (4): Electrophyisiological Studies / DEVELOPMENT of AUDITORY CAPACITY for LANGUAGE (1 - 4) / DEVELOPMENT of AUDITORY CAPACITY for MUSIC (1 - 4)

 

1	Presentation. Course' s Objectives. Programming. Recommended Bibliography
2	Introduction to the Nature and Concept of Musical Ability
3	Music Ability Components
4	Perceptual Systems Involved in Music
5	Variability in Subjects and Involvement Types into Musical Phaenomenon
6	Musical Memory
7	Musicality
8	Sociocultural Nature of Music: The Musical Phaenomenon in Other Cultures

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS NATURE of MUSIC ABILITY - 1 / Nature of MUSIC ABILITY - 2. Essential Auditory Requisites in the Expresive or Receptive Musical Appreciation / Nature of MUSIC ABILITY - 3. Variability through Individuals / Nature of MUSIC ABILITY - 4. Tipology in the Variability through Individuals / Nature of MUSIC ABILITY - 5. Research Inform about Audience (BBC) / Nature of MUSIC ABILITY - 6 / MUSICALITY. Historical Draft (1 - 3) / SPECIAL SENSES - I. The Auditory System / SPECIAL SENSES - II. Auditory Imagery (I) / SPECIAL SENSES - III. Deafness in Composers / SPECIAL SENSES - IV y V . Absolute Pitch (1 - 2) / SPECIAL SENSES - VI. Vision (1) / SPECIAL SENSES - VII. Vision (2) / MUSICAL MEMORY (1 - 2) / MUSICAL MEMORY (3). Cerebral Substrat / MUSICAL MEMORY (4). Auditory Imagery (II) / MUSICAL MEMORY (5) / MUSICAL MEMORY (6). Mozart and Mendelssohn / MUSICAL MEMORY (7). Performers / MUSICAL MEMORY (8)

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS The HARVARD PROJECT ZERO and The BOSTON GROUP / DEVELOPMENTof RHYTHMIC ORGANIZATION in VOCAL PRODUCTION (until 24 months) / DEVELOPMENT of PITCH and INTERVAL PRODUCTION (until 24 months) / BABBLING ORGANIZATION (1-4) / PITCH-RHYTHM COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT in the SPONTANEOUS SONGS (until 30 months) / SUMMARY OF MOOG' S "PRESCHOOL CHILDREN MUSICAL EXPERIENCE" LONG SCALE INVESTIGATION (1976) / MILESTONES of MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT (1) / MILESTONES of MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT (2) / SONG ACQUISITION PHASES at 5 years-old (1 - 2) EXAMPLES (1 - 10) / SOME NATURAL MODELS for LEARNING and ACQUISITION of SONGS (1 - 4) / AUTHORS & THEORIC FRAMEWORKS for MUSIC ABILITY (1-10)

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS The SIMPLE HELIX of PITCH / PITCH Discrimination. BENTLEY' s Study (1966) / ABSOLUTE PITCH. Approaches / POSESSION of ABSOLUTE PITCH (2). Advantatges / Disadvantages / ABSOLUTE PITCH (3). Environmental Theories (WARD & BURNS, 1982) / Absolute Pitch (4). Effects of Trainig and Experience / Absolute Pitch (5). SERGEANT & ROCHE' s Study (1973) / Absolute Pitch (4). Related To General Population' s Perception of Music / TONALITY ACQUISITION (1). IMBERTY' s Study (1969) / Tonality Acquisition(2). Other Researches / Tonality Acquisition (3). Typical Task. ZENATTI - I / Tonality Acquisition (4). ZENATTI - II. Further Research / HARMONIC ABILITIES ACQUISITION (1). ZENATTI - III / Harmonic Abilitites Acquisition (2) . Theories of 'Natural Law' / Harmonic Abilitites Acquisition (3). 'Cultural' Theories / Harmonic Abilitites Acquisition (4 - 5). Preference for Consonant Intervals (I & II). VALENTINE (1910, 1962) / Harmonic Abilitites Acquisition (6). Preference for Consonant Intervals (III). ZENATTI - IV / MUSIC & GENERAL COGNITION (1 - 3) / MUSIC & GENERAL COGNITION (4 - 6). "Idiot-Savants"

SOME SELECTED MATERIALS: MOTOR and SENSORY ORGANIZATION of HUMAN CORTEX (1-2) / MOTOR SUPPLEMENTARY AREA / PENFIELD & cols. Studies / The First HOMUNCULI / SOME PROBLEMS in LANGUAGE PHYSIOLOGY -1. Central vs. Peripheral Processing / SOME PROBLEMS in LANGUAGE PHYSIOLOGY - 2. Motor Innervation (1-4) / ANATOMIC ASYMMETRIES in the HUMAN BRAIN (1-4) / FUNCTIONAL HEMISPHERIC SPECIALIZATION - 1. Left-Right Processing / FUNCTIONAL HEMISPHERIC SPECIALIZATION - 2. Language and Hand Preference / FUNCTIONAL HEMISPHERIC SPECIALIZATION - 3. Left Hemisphere and Language Processing / SUBCORTICAL STRUCTURES Involved in Language (1-4) / CORTICAL ORGANIZATION of LANGUAGE (1-5) / BRODMANN 's AREAS Involved in Language (1-2) / FUNCTIONAL IMAGES of SIMPLE LANGUAGE TASKS (1-5)

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS Introduction to the History of APHASIOLOGY / BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS of LANGUAGE - 1. The Innatist Overview (1 - 3) / BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS of LANGUAGE - 2. Sign Languages (1 - 4) / HUMAN HIGHER LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS (1 - 3) / CORTICAL PROCESSING of LANGUAGE - 1. Cortical Areas Involved in Language / CORTICAL PROCESSING of LANGUAGE - 2. Geschwind Model (1 - 3) / SOME PROBLEMS Related The CONCEPT of CENTERS - 1. Ojemann and cols. Studies (1 - 4) / SOME PROBLEMS Related The CONCEPT of CENTERS - 2. "The Bilingual Brain" (1 - 2) / DAMASIO 's MODEL - 1. Color Perception and The Three Systems To Process the World / DAMASIO 's MODEL - 2. Localization of Some Linguistic Categories Processing / MESULAM 's MODEL (1 - 2)

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS BREATHING MECHANISM / DIAPHRAGMA / DIAPHRAGMA: ABDOMINAL & INTERCOSTAL MUSCLES (1 - 4) / RESPIRATORY SYSTEM and VOICE EMISSION / PHONATORY SYSTEM / The VOCAL CHORDS (1 - 2) / SPEECH VOICE / PROJECTED VOICE / FUNCTIONAL DYSPHONY (1 - 2) / FUNCTIONAL DYSPHONY in CHILDREN (1 - 2) / PREVENTION and CORRECT USE of VOICE / DIAFRAGMA' s ACTION MECHANISM of CONTROLED EMISSION / VOICE in SINGING - 1 / VOICE in SINGING - 2 / VOICE in SINGING - 3 / LOGSE (Spanish Educational Law) (1 - 2) / LOGSE (Spanish Educational Law) (3 - 4)

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS COMPARATIVE TABLE for the MULTIDISCIPLINAR ASSESSMENT / NEUROLOGICAL ASSESSMENT / PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT / EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT. Research Methods & Technics / INTERDISCIPLINAR TEAMS / COMPARATIVE TABLE of DSM-III/DSM-IV related DLD / NOSOLOGIC EXPERIMENTAL MODEL for the DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDERS / DYSPHASIC SYNDROMES. According Neurological Criteria / DYSPHASIC SYNDROMES. According Linguistics Criteria / SPEECH UNDERSTANDING and PRODUCTION in DYSPHASIC SYNDROMES / PRESCHOOL Children NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES / PRIMARY SCHOOL Children NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES (1) / Primary School Children NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES (2) / VERBAL AUDITORY AGNOSIA (1 - 6) / OTHER EXPERIMENTAL SYNDROMES (1-9) / AUTISM (1 - 6)

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS MUSIC and LANGUAGE (1-4) / RELATION between MUSIC and LANGUAGE (1-4) / MUSIC and LANGUAGE. Analogies (1 - 4) / LINGUISTIC COMPLEXITY / MUSICAL COMPLEXITY / SENSE of TIME / TEMPORAL ORDER / Comparative Analysis of MUSICAL COGNITION and the PERCEPTION of LANGUAGE / ARTICULATION / SPEECH PROSODY / PROSODY. Monrad-Krohn (1947, 1963) / MUSIC and LANGUAGE in AFRICA - (1 - 2) / MUSIC and LANGUAGE in JAVO - (1 - 2) / MUSIC in AMERINDIAN THOUGHT - (1 - 3) / READING. MUSICAL ALEXIA (1 - 2) / WRITING. MUSICAL AGRAPIA (1 - 2) / APHASIA with AMUSIA- VI. Musical Reading and Writing / AMUSIA with APHASIA 9. Musical and Verbal Alexia / AMUSIA without APHASIA (V - VI). Reading and Writing of Music. Patient of Charcot (1 - 2)

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS AMUSIAS. Historical Overview (1 - 6) / VARIETY of MUSICAL PERTURBANCES (1 - 2) / PROBLEMS on the ASSESSMENT of MUSICAL FUNCTION / ASSESSMENT of MUSICAL CAPACITIES - 1. Tests Battery of DORGEUILLE (1966) / ASSESSMENT of MUSICAL CAPACITIES - 2. Levels of Music Culture (Adapted from GRISON, 1972 ) / MUSICAL AMNESIA / RECEPTIVE AMUSIA / AMUSIAS (1 - 2). Cases before 1930. Aphasic Patients (I & II) / AMUSIAS (3). Cases before 1930. Non-Aphasic Patients / ASSOCIATION between APHASIA and AMUSIA. Historical Overview (1-2) / AFASIA with AMUSIA - IX & X. Maurice RAVEL (ALAJOUANINE, 1948) (1 - 2) / CASE of SHEBALIN (1 - 2) / Musical ABILITIES in APHASIC PROFESSIONAL PIANIST / AMATEUR ACCORDIONIST - (I / II) / ACCORDION EXPERTISE PERFORMER of 20 years-old (BOTEZ & WERTHEIM, 1959) / PIANO MALE TEACHER (SOUQUES & BARUK, 1926, 1930) / SINGER-GUITARRIST (JELLINEK, 1956) / PROFESSIONAL SINGER. Case of JELLINEK (1933) / PROFESSIONAL VIOLINIST with ABSOLUTE PITCH. Case of Wertheim & Botez (I / II) / PROFESSIONAL VIOLINIST of 40 years-old / OTHER CASES (1-6)

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS of THERAPEUTICAL USE of MUSIC (1 - 6) / MEDICAL LITERATURE - I. Before 1650 / MEDICAL LITERATURE - II. Tarantism / MEDICAL LITERATURE (3 - 6). Other Cultures / NEUROLOGICAL LITERATURE (1 - 2) / THALAMIC LESIONS / RHYTHM and MUSICAL FUNCTION (1). Functions Depending on Rhythm / RHYTHM and MUSICAL FUNCTION (2 - 3) / NATURE of RHYTHM (1 - 2) / MUSIC & ATTENTION (1 - 2) / Music & Attention (3). Impaired Subjects / Music & ATTENTION (4). Productivity / / PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS of Music (1 - 12): Correlates KEENAN (1970) / Autonomic Response I - II - III / The System of Maximal Response / Differences in Reactivity between Performer and Listener / Systems Affected by Autonomic Reactions: Cardiovascular System - Respiration (1) (2) - Motor Activity / Muscular Activity and Other Autonomic Paramethers / Historical Review of THEORIES ON the INFLUENCE of MUSIC in the MIND-BRAIN COMPLEX (1 - 8) / Specific Neurological Disorders: CORTICAL PHAENOMENOLOGY: Alexia, Agrafía, Acalculia, Afasia, Apraxia, Disorders of Body Scheme /  Musical Syndromes: AMUSIAS / MUSICAL AUTISTS / WILLIAMS' SYNDROME

Music and the Brain
PROGRAM 14

1	Presentation. Course' s Objectives. Programming. Recommended Bibliography
2	Theoric and Conceptual Framework: the role of the cerebral hemispheres in music
3	Cortical processment of audition. Representation of frequency and other acoustic parameters
4	Auditory Processes in music. Structure and Complexity in music
5	Hemispheric Funcional Asimmetry. Introduction to the concept of “lateralization of function”
6	Cerebral Bi-hemisphericity. Music and right hemisphere. Music and left hemisphere
7	Cerebral Lesions in musicians
8	Association between language disorder (Aphasia) and disorder of musical function (Amusia)

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS CORTICAL REPRESENTATION of the SENSORIAL MODALIDATIES in the HUMAN CORTEX (1 - 3) / CORTICAL REPRESENTATION of the AUDITION (1) / Cortical Representation of the Audition (2-4). Cortical Representation of frequency / Cortical Representation of the Audition (5 - 6). Cortical Responses to Frequency Modulation (FM). (WITHFIELD & EVANS, 1965) / AUDITORY PERCEPTION - 4. Bats / Auditory Perception - 5. Cortical Responses to Frequency Modulation (FM). Bats (SUGA, 1965) / ANATOMICAL ASIMMETRIES in the HUMAN BRAIN (1-4) / FUNCTIONAL HEMISPHERIC SPECIALIZATION - 1. Left-Right Processing / MUSIC and RIGHT HEMISPHERE (1 - 3) / MUSIC and LEFT HEMISPHERE (1 - 3) / AMUSIAS. HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS (1 - 6) / VARIETIES of MUSICAL DISORDER (1 - 2) / PROBLEMS in the ASSESSMENT of the MUSICAL FUNCTION / ASSOCIATION between APHASIA and AMUSIA. Historical Backgrounds / APHASIA with AMUSIA (1-10)

Hystory of Tonality
PROGRAM 15
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1	Presentation. Course' s Objectives. Programming. Recommended Bibliography
2	Theoric and Conceptual Framework: the origins of the occidental musical scale
3	Intervals in the ancient cultures: Mesopotamy and Egypt
4	Intervals in the oriental cultures: India and China
5	The Greek musical system. Theorics and theory
6	Intervals in the Ancient Greece
7	The transit of Gregorian Modes
8	The Renacentist Poliphony
9	The Barroc Era: the Establishment of the Harmony
10	The Physic-armonic Phaenomenon and the Occidental Tonal System

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS MUSIC in the ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA (1 - 2) / MUSIC in the ANCIENT EGYPT (1 - 2) / The MUSIC of INDIA (1 - 2) / DIVISION of the OCTAVE in the INDIAN MUSICAL SYSTEM / The MUSIC of CHINA (1- 2) / DIVISION of the OCTAVE in the CHINESE MUSICAL SYSTEM / COMPARATIVE TABLE of the UTILIZATION of INTERVALS in DIFFERENTS CIVILIZATIONS / The GREEK MUSICAL SYSTEM. Theorics and Theory (1 - 8) / The Greek Musical System (9- 14). INTERVALS in the ANCIENT GREECE / GREGORIAN MODES and ORGANIZATION of the SCALES (1 - 4) / The LOW and HIGH MIDDLE AGES (1 - 4) / The RENAISSANCE: The NEW TONAL and PITCH SYSTEMS (1-6) / RENAISSANCE POLIPHONY (1 - 4) / The BARROC ERA: The ESTABLISHMENT of the HARMONY (1 - 4) / The Barroc Era: The Establishment of the Harmony (5 - 7). J.P. RAMEAU / The Barroc Era: The Establishment of the Harmony. J.S. BACH (8-10) / THE PHYSIC-HARMONIC PHAENOMENON (1 - 4) / The Physic-Harmonic Phaenomenon and the OCCIDENTAL TONAL SYSTEM (1 - 3) / THE ORIGINS of the OCCIDENTAL MUSICAL SCALE (1 - 2)

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS The SYMBOLIC MIND (1 – 3) / The GENERATIVE Mind (1 – 3) / MÚSIC: ART and ARMONIC SCIENCE: The PHYSIC-HARMONIC PHAENOMENON across the ages (1 – 6) / CEREBRAL Bi-HEMISPHERICITY: RIGHT Brain vs. LEFT Brain (1 – 8) / MENTAL FACULTY and CEREBRAL FUNCTION (1 – 3) / CORTEX (1 – 6) / Theories On CREATIVITY (1 – 4) / The CREATIVE INDIVIDUAL: Approach of GRUBER (1 – 3) / ART and SCIENCE in the Renaissance / Leonardo Da VINCI: The RENAISSANCE IDEAL (1 – 8) / The ESTABLISHMENT of HARMONY (Barroc and Classicism) (1 – 3) / CREATIVITY and ART: SCHÖNBERG and the CRISIS of TONALITY (1 – 2) / The “WORLDS” of ESCHER (1 – 8) / CREATIVITY and SCIENCE: The Evolution, the Brain, and the Mind. From DARWIN to PIAGET / Albert EINSTEIN (1 – 4)

• SOME SELECTED MATERIALS  FOUNDATIONS OF AUDITORY PERCEPTION (1 – 6) / ABSOLUTE PITCH (1 – 3) / ABSOLUTE PITCH and WERNICKE ‘s Area (1 – 3) / STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION of the STATIONS of Auditory System [Serie 1-12] / RIGHT BRAIN versus LEFT BRAIN (1 – 6) / Functions Located in the TEMPORAL LOBE (1 – 2) / AUDITORY MEMORY (1 – 3) / AUDIOGENIC CRISIS (1 – 3) / HALLUCINATIONS of Temporal Lobe (1 – 4) / CORTICALES Areas involved in the LANGUAGE PROCESSING (1 – 5). / OTHER STRUCTURES involved (1 – 3) / The LEGACY of CAJAL (1 – 6) / CYTOARCHITECTONIC Maps: BRODMANN ‘s Areas (1 – 4) / CYTOARCHITECTONIC Maps: Von ECONOMO (1 – 3) / CYTOARCHITECTONIC Maps: LORENTE de Nó (1 – 3) / In searching of a new section of cortex: the works of K. ZILLES (1 – 3).

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