Browsing by Subject "environmental and intrapersonal catalysts"

The aim of this study is to investigate and describe the environmental an intrapersonal factors, which have influenced a musician-composers musical giftedness potential, as a promoter or as a blocker. The theoretic background of this study is based partly on Gagnés theory of giftedness and partly on theory literature about musical giftedness. Gagnés model is used especially from the environmental and intrapersonal factors point of view. This is a biographic case study, where the material was collected from one person's eight interviews, and from a writing task, which was given to the examinee beforehand. The material gathered from the interviews and writing task, were transcribed, categorised, and content-analysed after Gagnés DMGT –model. According to the results, the biggest promoting factors for the examinees musical giftedness potential were family, which included also grandparents, accessing the music class in elementary school, and the teacher's support there. From formal studies, the biggest promoting factors were music-institute and private guitar lessons, and the private teacher's supporting attitude. Friends and hobbies were also very important factors, especially meeting the other band members. Significant promoter happenings were relocations to Helsinki and Spain, the master of Finnish rock –competition participation, Depeche mode's appearance in Copenhagen 1990, father's death, intoxicants and sobriety. The biggest blocking factors were record label industry, conservative atmosphere in north Karelia in the eighties and use of intoxicants. The biggest promoting intrapersonal catalysts were very high self-esteem, self-efficacy, self-confidence, and also extremely high intrinsic motivation towards music-making. Sobriety was one of the biggest sea changes in interviewees life. The impacts caused by alcoholism and sobriety transfixes every area of interviews life from youth until the present day. These impacts came up in the examination of both intrapersonal and environmental factors.