What is musical genius?
Paul Robertson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.8-2-178
Clin Med April 2008 Paul Robertson
Medici String Quartet; Peninsula Medical School; Templeton/Green College, Oxford; The Music Mind Spirit Trust
Roles: Founder Leader, Visiting Professor in Music and Medicine, Associate Fellow, Chief Executive

Abstract
While musical genius must have neuro-biological basis it is defined and understood within prevailing cultural frameworks. In order to measure it historic and aesthetic traditions and assumptions need to be considered. Child prodigies and savants are discussed as well as traditional associations that suggest that depression and the melancholic personality have particular relevance in musical creativity and originality.
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What is musical genius?
Paul Robertson
Clinical Medicine Apr 2008, 8 (2) 178-181; DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.8-2-178
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