AIRS 3rd Annual Meeting: 2013

Title: Tonal fragments in children's spontaneous play
Authors: June Countryman (Department of Music, University of Prince Edward Island), Martha
Gabriel (Faculty of Education, University of Prince Edward Island), Kate Thompson
(Departments of Music and Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island), Melissa MacRae
(Department of Music Education, University of PEI)

Abstract

This poster summarizes our analysis of hundreds of fragmentary vocalizations documented in
our field work at daycares and school playgrounds. We explore the self-making and aesthetic
dimensions of these 'musical utterances'. We posit implications for thinking about children's
musical expressions (part of their multimodal approach to play) as self-authoring and aesthetic
in nature.