Teresa Amabile’s book, Creativity in Context (there are no affiliate links in this article), is one of the very few texts that I can say definitively changed my thinking and approach to musical composition. Reading it was a personal, paradigm-shifting moment where I started to understand what music composition and wider studying of music meant to […]
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The issue of writer’s block comes up again and again. In response to these woes, the bandying of limitation and constraint has emerged. However, bandy or not, where there is this kind of heuristic, implicit consensus on something, there is usually an element, if not more, of truth. In my PhD studies and practice as
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In this article I discuss concepts in Margaret Boden’s book Creativity and Art. Pulling out three points from her book, I discuss why I found them significant as a composer/creative practitioner.
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