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Book SynopsisNot long ago, ideas of creativity in music revolved around composers in garrets and the idea of genius. In the last decade there has been a sea change in thinking: musical creativity is seen in terms of collaboration and real-time performance. Music as Creative Practice is a first attempt to synthesise both perspectives.
Trade Review...highly informative insights... * Anna Falkenau, Ethnomusicology Ireland *
This is a most valuable volume ... it tackles some fundamental issues that are largely becoming ignored in our current populist political and social environment ... As in all his writing, Nicholas Cook goes a very long way in this book to clarify these issues, along with many other intriguing musicological concepts, and to stimulate debate in a most lucid and informative manner. * Sinan Carter Savaskan, Notes *
Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: creativity in context 1 Making music together 1 Listening together 2 From the inside out 3 You do an up-bow, I do a down-bow 4 Beyond real time 5 Production as relational practice 6 Assemblages in action 7 Creativity on the other side 2 Imagining music 1 Cultures of imagination 2 Composition by stages 3 Improvisations on paper 4 Seeing through the myths 5 Sonic ontology 6 The extended musical mind 7 Talking back 3 Creative in a different sort of way 1 The ghost in the machine 2 Significant others 3 The composer's alter ego 4 Traditions of creative learning 5 Pathways to creative performance 6 Owning creativity 7 A culture of creative repetition Conclusion: creativity everywhere References Index
