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The Improvising Mind - Cognition and Creativity in the Musical Moment (Hardcover)
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The Improvising Mind - Cognition and Creativity in the Musical Moment (Hardcover)
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The ability to improvise represents one of the highest levels of
musical achievement. An improviser must master a musical language
to such a degree as to be able to spontaneously invent
stylistically idiomatic compositions on the spot. This feat is one
of the pinnacles of human creativity, and yet its cognitive basis
is not completely understood. What musical knowledge is required
for improvisation? How does a musician learn to improvise? How is
this knowledge used in performance? What are the neural correlates
of improvised performance? In 'The Improvising Mind', these
questions are explored through an interdisciplinary approach that
draws on cognitive neuroscience, the study of historical
pedagogical treatises on improvisation, interviews with
improvisers, and musical analysis of improvised performances.
Findings from these treatises and interviews are discussed from the
perspective of cognitive psychological theories of learning,
memory, and expertise. Musical improvisation has often been
compared to 'speaking a musical language'. While past research has
focused on comparisons of music and language perception, few have
dealt with the music - language comparison in the performance
domain. In this book, learning to improvise is compared with
language acquisition, and improvised performance is compared with
spontaneous speech from both theoretical and neurobiological
perspectives. Tackling a topic that has hitherto received little
attention,The Improvising Mind is a valuable addition to the
literature in music cognition. This book will be of interest to
musicologists, music theorists, cognitive neuroscientists and
psychologists, musicians, music educators, and anyone with an
interest in creativity.
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