Cook, Nicholas - Music as Creative Practice

Not 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.

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CONTENTS

Table 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

Series	Studies in Musical Performance as Creative Practice