Description
Product ID: | 9780367569297 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Imagination of Experiences |
Subtitle: | Musical Invention, Collaboration, and the Making of Meanings |
Authors: | Author: Alan Taylor |
Page Count: | 114 |
Subjects: | The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, Theory of music and musicology, Techniques of music / music tutorials / teaching of music, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Theory of music & musicology, Techniques of music / music tutorials, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Cognition & cognitive psychology |
Description: | Aimed at lay, student, and academic readers alike, this book concerns the imagination, and specifically imagination in music. It opens with a discussion of the invalidity of the idea of the creative genius and the connected view that ideas originate just in the individual mind. Aimed at lay, student, and academic readers alike, this book concerns the imagination and, specifically, imagination in music. It opens with a discussion of the invalidity of the idea of the creative genius and the connected view that ideas originate just in the individual mind. An alternative view of the imaginative process is then presented, that ideas spring from a subconscious dialogue activated by engagement in the world around. Ideas are therefore never just of our own making. This view is supported by evidence from many studies and corresponds with descriptions by artists of their experience of imagining. The third subject is how imaginations can be shared when musicians work with other artists, and the way the constraints imposed by trying to share subconscious imagining result in clearly distinct forms of joint working. The final chapter covers the use of the musical imagination in making meanings from music. The evidence is that music does not communicate meanings directly, and so composers or performers cannot be looked to as authorities on its meaning. Instead, music is commonly heard as analogous to human experience, and listeners who perceive such analogies may then imagine their own meanings from the music. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-08-29 |