Makes intriguing reading for anyone who has puzzled over the mechanism by which young children learn tunes.
-- Gerald Haigh Times Educational Supplement
[This book] will undoubtedly become required reading for all those concerned with, or undergoing, training in music education.
-- Andrew Peggie Music Teacher
This book is absolutely unique. The combination of musical insight and psychological thought far outshines anything I have read bearing on the psychology of aesthetic experience.
-- Howard E. Gruber, Teachers College, Columbia University
I know of no other work that investigates the musical development of children in so imaginative, analytical, coherent, or, to put it bluntly, lovingly detailed a way.
-- Martin Brody, Wellesley College