“This book contains a magesterial complitation of all the ways in which non-notated (and in many cases non-notable) activities lie at the heart of American music, past and present. It is enlivened by case studies and interviews with living musicians, and also by an ambitious juxtaposition of historical interviews with living mussicians, and also by an amitious juxtoposition of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and psychology.”
–Dr John Sloboda, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Keele, UK
and Honorary Professor of Music, Rotal Hollowat, University of London, UK” In The Musical Ear Professor McLucas follows scholars like Albert Lord, John Blacking, and Christopher Small in the project of validating orally-transmiited “folk” and “popular” musical traditions in contrast to the “classical” traditions of Western art music transmitted in written
notation. She goes beyond her predecessors first in addressing the impact of recorded sound on musical transmission, second in attempting to base her arguments on psychological and neuro-
logical research into musical memory and musical creation. It is an ambitious undertaking that
sheds light not just on oral vs. written traditions but on human aptitudes, capacities and need for music in general.”–Dr John Spitzer, San Franciso Conservatory of Music, USA
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