The Imagination of Experiences: Musical Invention, Collaboration, and the Making of Meanings Taylor Alan
The Imagination of Experiences: Musical Invention, Collaboration, and the Making of Meanings Taylor Alan Aimed at lay, student, and academic readers alike, this book concerns the imagination and,…
Specifikacia The Imagination of Experiences: Musical Invention, Collaboration, and the Making of Meanings Taylor Alan
The Imagination of Experiences: Musical Invention, Collaboration, and the Making of Meanings Taylor Alan
Aimed at lay, student, and academic readers alike, this book concerns the imagination and, specifically, imagination in music. An alternative view of the imaginative process is then presented, that ideas spring from a subconscious dialogue activated by engagement in the world around. 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.
This view is supported by evidence from many studies and corresponds with descriptions by artists of their experience of imagining. Ideas are therefore never just of our own making. 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