Music as Creative Practice
- Author: Cook, Nicholas
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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