Howard Gardner’s MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: A Minority View: Musical Intelligence

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Johnny Reinhard

Abstract

Perhaps there is no more important time to think critically about what makes music unique among disciplines than the present era. Intelligence, long subsumed by the duality of language and mathematical skills in the United States and elsewhere, has been found to be myriad. Harvard professor Howard Gardner has profoundly changed the landscape of our understanding of the different modes for getting and interpreting data. Colleges always include Gardner’s multiple intelligences divisions in their curricula. And while Gardner encouraged the increasing of recognized intelligences, shared by all but in different proportions, musical intelligence is often deemed a mystery. And while it is acknowledged as a full member of the pantheon of intelligences, musical intelligence’s uniqueness requires special attention.

Keywords: musical intelligence, intelligence, Howard Gardner, learning, pedagogy, music, education

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How to Cite
Reinhard, J. (2015). Howard Gardner’s MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: A Minority View: Musical Intelligence. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (4), 38–42. https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2015.4.038-042
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International Division
Author Biography

Johnny Reinhard, Manhattan School of Music

Master of Music Degree (MM)
(Manhattan School of Music),
Director of the American Festival
of Microtonal Music, New York

References

1. Checkley, Kathy. The First Seven and the Eighth: A Conversation with Howard Gardner. Educational Leadership. September, 1997, p. 12.
2. Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books, 1984. 440 p.
3. Gardner, Howard. Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice. New York: Basic Books, 1993. 304 p.
4. Reinhard, Johnny. Bach and Tuning. American Festival of Microtonal Music. New York, 2010.