Musical Creativity

Multidisciplinary Research in Theory and Practice

Edited by Irne Delige and Geraint A. Wiggins

Published with the support of the University Foundation of Belgium

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List of List of tables List of contributors Preface

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Prelude: The spectrum of musical creativity

IRNE DELIGE AND MARC RICHELLE

PART I

Creativity in musicology and philosophy of music 1 Playing God: Creativity, analysis, and aesthetic inclusion
NICHOLAS COOK

7 9 25

2 Layered constraints on the multiple creativities of music

BJRN H. MERKER

3 Musical creativity between symbolic modelling and perceptual constraints: The role of adaptive behaviour and epistemic autonomy
MARK M. REYBROUCK

42

PART II

Creativity in musical listening 4 Analogy: Creative support to elaborate a model of music listening
IRNE DELIGE

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5 Hearing musical style: Cognitive and creative problems

MARIO BARONI

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PART III

Creativity in educational settings 6 How different is good? How good is different? The assessment of children's creative musical thinking
MAUD HICKHY AND SCOTT D. LIPSCOMB

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97 111

7 Understanding children's meaning-making as composers

PAMELA BURNARD

8 Processes and teaching strategies in musical improvisation with children

JOHANNELLATAFURI

134

PART IV

Creativity in musical performance 9 Creativity, originality, and value in music performance

AARON WILLIAMON, SAM THOMPSON, TNIA LISBOA, AND CHARLES WIFFEN

159 161

10 Exploring jazz and classical solo singing performance behaviours: A preliminary step towards understanding performer creativity
JANE DAVIDSON AND ALICECOULAM

181 200

11 Spontaneity and creativity in highly practised performance

ROGER CHAFFIN, ANTHONY F. LEMIEUX, AND COLLEEN CHEN

PART V

Creativity in music therapy 12 Musical creativity in children with cognitive and social impairment
TONY WIGRAM

219 221 238

13 Aesthetics of creativity in clinical improvisation

COLIN LEE

14 Hidden music: An exploration of silence in music and music therapy

J U L I E P. S U T T O N

252

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PART VI

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Neuroscientific approaches to musical creativity 15 From music perception to creative performance: Mapping cerebral differences between professional and amateur musicians
MARTIN LOTZE, GABRIELA SCHELER, AND NIELS BIRBAUMER

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275 290

16 Musical creativity and the human brain

ELVIRA BRATTICO AND MARI TERVANIEMI

17 Beyond global and local theories of musical creativity: Looking for specific indicators of mental activity during music processing
MARTA OLIVETTI BELARDINELLI

322

PART VII

Computer models of creative behaviour 18 Creativity studies and musical interaction

FRANOIS PACHET

345 347

19 Enhancing individual creativity with interactive musical reflexive systems

FRANOIS PACHET

359

20 Putting some (artificial) life into models of musical creativity

PETER M. TODD AND EDUARDO R MIRANDA

376

Postlude: How can we understand creativity in a composer's work?

A Conversation between Irne Delige and Jonathan Harvey Author index Subject index

397 405 417