Dreaming and thinking in music : exercises for exploring inspiration and imagination in musical creativity /
"Dreaming and Thinking in Music provides an innovative method for teachers and students of music composition to practice responding to inspiration, and for readers interested in musical creativity to explore how composers think. Unlike conventional texts on music composition, this book is not a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2025.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Dreaming and Thinking in Music provides an innovative method for teachers and students of music composition to practice responding to inspiration, and for readers interested in musical creativity to explore how composers think. Unlike conventional texts on music composition, this book is not about the techniques of writing melody, harmony, counterpoint, and rhythm, but about the more elusive and rarely discussed problems of how to get ideas and then how to follow up with the appropriate techniques to realize those ideas. The exercises in the book prepare the reader for getting, recognizing, and seizing moments of inspiration and musical visions by providing a variety of images and concepts that prompt imaginative musical thinking. Essays appear throughout the book to introduce the exercises and explore relevant topics, such as dreams, improvisation, the concept of a personal voice, composing based on lived experiences, and the influences of visual art, poetry, film, theater, and science. Dreaming and Thinking in Music is a natural extension of concepts and practices in my previous books The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Performers, Composers, and Listeners (OUP, third edition, 2019) and Visions and Decisions: Imagination and Technique in Music Composition (Cambridge, 2023). This new book combines the research and thinking in both books and uses the exercise-driven approach of The Mind's Ear, making it a useful book for teachers and students of composition, but also for any musician or student interested in exploring their musical creativity from a non-technical viewpoint"-- Prelude -- Images and emotions -- Experiences, lived and imagined -- Tradition and text -- Visual art and science -- Dreaming music -- A series of endings. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197821688 0197821685 9780197821664 0197821669 9780197821671 0197821677 |