Musical Creativity: Multidisciplinary Research in Theory and Practice

by DeliFge; IrFne

• ISBN13: 9781841695082
• ISBN10: 1841695084
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-18
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

This collection initiates a resolutely interdisciplinary research dynamic specifically concerning musical creativity. Creativity is one of the most challenging issues currently facing scientific psychology and its study has been relatively rare in the cognitive sciences, especially in artificial intelligence. This book will address the need for a coherent and thorough exploration. Musical Creativity: Multidisciplinary Research in Theory and Practice comprises seven sections, each viewing musical creativity from a different scientific vantage point, from the philosophy of computer modeling, through music education, interpretation, neuroscience, and music therapy, to experimental psychology. Each section contains discussions by eminent international specialists of the issues raised, and the book concludes with a postlude discussing how we can understand creativity in the work of eminent composer, Jonathan Harvey. This unique volume presents an up-to-date snapshot of the scientific study of musicalcreativity, in conjunction with ESCOM (the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music). Describing many of the different aspects of musical creativity and their study, it will form a useful springboard for further such study in future years, and will be of interest to academics and practitioners in music, psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and other fields concerning the study of human cognition in this most human of behaviors.

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii
List of tables	xi
List of contributors	xii
Preface	xv
Prelude: The spectrum of musical creativity	1	(6)
Irene Deliege
Marc Richelle
PART I Creativity in musicology and philosophy of music	7	(54)
Playing God: Creativity, analysis, and aesthetic inclusion	9	(16)
Nicholas Cook
Layered constraints on the multiple creativities of music	25	(17)
Bjorn H. Merker
Musical creativity between symbolic modelling and perceptual constraints: The role of adaptive behaviour and epistemic autonomy	42	(19)
Mark M. Reybrouck
PART II Creativity in musical listening	61	(34)
Analogy: Creative support to elaborate a model of music listening	63	(15)
Irene Deliege
Hearing musical style: Cognitive and creative problems	78	(17)
Mario Baroni
PART III Creativity in educational settings	95	(64)
How different is good? How good is different? The assessment of children's creative musical thinking	97	(14)
Maud Hickey
Scott D. Lipscomb
Understanding children's meaning-making as composers	111	(23)
Pamela Burnard
Processes and teaching strategies in musical improvisation with children	134	(25)
Johannella Tafuri
PART IV Creativity in musical performance	159	(60)
Creativity, originality, and value in music performance	161	(20)
Aaron Williamon
Sam Thompson
Tania Lisboa
Charles Wiffen
Exploring jazz and classical solo singing performance behaviours: A preliminary step towards understanding performer creativity	181	(19)
Jane Davidson
Alice Coulam
Spontaneity and creativity in highly practised performance	200	(19)
Roger Chaffin
Anthony F. Lemieux
Colleen Chen
PART V Creativity in music therapy	219	(54)
Musical creativity in children with cognitive and social impairment	221	(17)
Tony Wigram
Aesthetics of creativity in clinical improvisation	238	(14)
Colin Lee
Hidden music: An exploration of silence in music and music therapy	252	(21)
Julie P. Sutton
PART VI Neuroscientific approaches to musical creativity	273	(72)
From music perception to creative performance: Mapping cerebral differences between professional and amateur musicians	275	(15)
Martin Lotze
Gabriela Scheler
Niels Birbaumer
Musical creativity and the human brain	290	(32)
Elvira Brattico
Mari Tervaniemi
Beyond global and local theories of musical creativity: Looking for specific indicators of mental activity during music processing	322	(23)
Marta Olivetti Belardinelli
PART VII Computer models of creative behaviour	345	(60)
Creativity studies and musical interaction	347	(12)
Francois Pachet
Enhancing individual creativity with interactive musical reflexive systems	359	(17)
Francois Pachet
Putting some (artificial) life into models of musical creativity	376	(29)
Peter M. Todd
Eduardo R. Miranda
Postlude: How can we understand creativity in a composer's work?
A Conversation between Irene Deliege and Jonathan Harvey	397	(8)
Author index	405	(12)
Subject index	417