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 modelling, 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 musical creativity, 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 behaviours.
Author(s): Irene Deliege, Geraint Wiggins
Edition: 1
Publisher: Psychology Press
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 444
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 9
Tables......Page 12
Contributors......Page 13
Preface......Page 16
Prelude: The spectrum of musical creativity......Page 18
Part I: Creativity in musicology and philosophy of music......Page 24
1 Playing God: Creativity, analysis, and aesthetic inclusion......Page 26
2 Layered constraints on the multiple creativities of music......Page 42
3 Musical creativity between symbolic modelling and perceptual constraints: The role of adaptive behaviour and epistemic autonomy......Page 59
Part II: Creativity in musical listening......Page 78
4 Analogy: Creative support to elaborate a model of music listening......Page 80
5 Hearing musical style: Cognitive and creative problems......Page 95
Part III: Creativity in educational settings......Page 112
6 How different is good? How good is different? The assessment of children’s creative musical thinking......Page 114
7 Understanding children’s meaning-making as composers......Page 128
8 Processes and teaching strategies in musical improvisation with children......Page 151
Part IV: Creativity in musical performance......Page 176
9 Creativity, originality, and value in music performance......Page 178
10 Exploring jazz and classical solo singing performance behaviours: A preliminary step towards understanding performer creativity......Page 198
11 Spontaneity and creativity in highly practised performance......Page 217
Part V: Creativity in music therapy......Page 236
12 Musical creativity in children with cognitive and social impairment......Page 238
13 Aesthetics of creativity in clinical improvisation......Page 255
14 Hidden music: An exploration of silence in music and music therapy......Page 269
Part VI: Neuroscientific approaches to musical creativity......Page 290
15 From music perception to creative performance: Mapping cerebral differences between professional and amateur musicians......Page 292
16 Musical creativity and the human brain......Page 307
17 Beyond global and local theories of musical creativity: Looking for specific indicators of mental activity during music processing......Page 339
Part VII: Computer models of creative behaviour......Page 362
18 Creativity studies and musical interaction......Page 364
19 Enhancing individual creativity with interactive musical reflexive systems......Page 376
20 Putting some (artificial) life into models of musical creativity......Page 393
Postlude: How can we understand creativity in a composer’s work? A conversation between Irène Deliège and Jonathan Harvey......Page 414
Author index......Page 422
Subject index......Page 434
