Taqsīm as a Creative Musical Process in Arabic Music

Knowledge Engineering of Creative Musical Expressions Using Carnatic Music Ideology

The purpose of this paper is to propose a method to analyze creative music expressions of a performer in South Indian Classical Music (Carnatic Music). The method performs a qualitative classification of the extracted note sequences in a Carnatic music exposition by defining pattern classes. The classification attributes the note sequences in varying degrees to each of the classes. These patter...

A synthesis process model of creative thinking in music composition

K E Y W O R D S : cognition, creative process

The Creative Process in Musical Composition: An Introspective Account

This chapter charts the creative process in the composition of a piece of music titled 'Stream not gone dry' that unfolded, while I was primarily occupied with other matters, over the course of nearly two decades. It avoids discussion of the technical aspects of musical composition, and it can be read by someone with no formal knowledge of music. The focus here is on what the process of composi...

Creative Flow as a Unique Cognitive Process

Creative Thought as a nonDarwinian Evolutionary Process

Selection theory requires multiple, distinct, simultaneously-actualized states. In cognition, each thought or cognitive state changes the ‘selection pressure’ against which the next is evaluated; they are not simultaneously selected amongst. Creative thought is more a matter of honing in a vague idea through redescribing successive iterations of it from different real or imagined perspectives; ...