Music as Creative Practice Nicholas Cook

Music as Creative Practice Nicholas Cook – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s):9780190873967, 0190873965

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• ISBN 10: 0190873965
• ISBN 13: 9780190873967
• Author: Nicholas Cook

Until recently, ideas of creativity in music revolved around composers in garrets and the lone genius. But the last decade has witnessed a sea change: musical creativity is now overwhelmingly thought of in terms of collaboration and real-time performance. Music as Creative Practice is a first attempt to synthesize both perspectives. It begins by developing the idea that creativity arises out of social interaction-of which making music together is perhaps the clearest possible illustration-and then shows how the same thinking can be applied to the ostensively solitary practices of composition. The book also emphasizes the contextual dimensions of musical creativity, ranging from the prodigy phenomenon, long-term collaborative relationships within and beyond the family, and creative learning to the copyright system that is supposed to incentivize creativity but is widely seen as inhibiting it.Music as Creative Practice encompasses the classical tradition, jazz and popular music, and music emerges as an arena in which changing concepts of creativity-from the old myths about genius to present-day sociocultural theory-can be traced with particular clarity. The perspective of creativity tells us much about music, but the reverse is also true, and this fifth and last instalment of the Studies in Musical Performance as Creative Practice series offers an approach to musical creativity that is attuned to the practices of both music and everyday life.

Table of contents:

1 Making music together
Listening together
From the inside out
You do an up-bow, I do a down-bow
Beyond real time
Production as relational practice
Assemblages in action
Creativity on the other side
2 Rethinking the garret
Cultures of imagination
Composition by stages
Improvisations on paper
Seeing through the myths
Sonic ontology
The extended musical mind
Talking back
3 Creative in a different sort of way
The ghost in the machine
Significant others
The composer’s alter ego
Traditions of creative learning
Pathways to creative performance
Owning creativity
A culture of creative repetition

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