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Embodiment of Musical Creativity: The Cognitive and Performative Causality of Musical Composition book cover

1st Edition

Embodiment of Musical Creativity The Cognitive and Performative Causality of Musical Composition

By Zvonimir Nagy Copyright 2017
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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Embodiment of Musical Creativity offers an innovative look at the interdisciplinary nature of creativity in musical composition. Using examples from empirical and theoretical research in creativity studies, music theory and cognition, psychology and philosophy, performance and education studies, and the author’s own creative practice, the book examines how the reciprocity of cognition and... Read more

Contents

Series Editor’s Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Towards the Embodiment of Musical Creativity

1 Multimodality of Creative Experience in Music

2 Embodied Cognition of Compositional Creativity

Part II The Embodied Creativity of Musical Composition

3 From Spirit—Within Sound—To Self

4 Embodiment of the Compositional Process

Part III Conceptualization and Contextualization of Musical Creativity

5 Inspiration—Imagination—Innovation

6 Teaching and Learning Compositional Creativity

Bibliography

Biography

Zvonimir Nagy is a composer and music scholar. His work extends into interdisciplinary contexts and perspectives on musical creativity and embodied music cognition, forging connections between music composition and theory, psychology and philosophy, and technology and performance. He is an Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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