The notion of the individual creator, a product in part of the Western romantic ideal, is now troubled by accounts and explanations of creativity as a social construct. While in collectivist cultures, the assimilation of individual authorship into the complexities of group produ…
Focusing on the domain of music, the approach taken in this book falls into three sections: investigations of the people, processes, products, and places of collaborative creativity in compositional thought and practice; explorations of the ways in which creative collaboration p…
The study of musical composition has been marked by a didactic, technique-based approach, focusing on the understanding of musical language and grammar -harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and arrangement - or on generic and stylistic categories. In the field of the psychology …
Understandings of the process or act of the compositional process have, in the main, been informed by anecdotal after-the-event accounts or post-hoc analyses of composition. This book presents an exploration and empirical work around this unique aspect of human creative activity…
The study of musical composition has been marked by a didactic, technique-based approach, focusing on the understanding of musical language and grammar -harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and arrangement - or on generic and stylistic categories. In the field of the psychology …
Understandings of the process or act of the compositional process have, in the main, been informed by anecdotal after-the-event accounts or post-hoc analyses of composition. This book presents an exploration and empirical work around this unique aspect of human creative activity…