Generative principles in music performance / Eric F. Clarke -- Timing in music performance and its relations to music experience / Alf Gabrielsson -- Computer synthesis of music performance / Johan Sundberg -- Timing and synchronization in ensemble performance / Rudolf A. Rasch -- Rehearsal skill and musical competence : does practice make perfect? / Linda M. Gruson -- Tonal structure and children's early learning of music / W. Jay Dowling -- Improvisation : methods and models / Jeff Pressing -- Experimental research into musical generative ability / Maria Sagi and Ivan Vitanyi -- Young children's musical representations : windows on music cognition / Lyle Davidson and Lawrence Scripp -- Cognitive constraints on compositional systems / Fred Lerdahl -- From collections to structure : the developmental path of tonal thinking / Lyle Davidson and Patricia Welsh.