TY - BOOK ID - 8580454 TI - Musical Creativity : Strategies and Tools in Composition and Improvisation AU - Mazzola, Guerino. AU - Park, Joomi. AU - Thalmann, Florian. PY - 2011 SN - 3642245161 364224517X PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Composition (Music) -- Data processing. KW - Creative ability. KW - Music theory -- Mathematics. KW - Composition (Music) KW - Music theory KW - Musical analysis KW - Creative ability KW - Music KW - Art, Architecture & Applied Arts KW - Music, Dance, Drama & Film KW - Music Instruction & Study KW - Fine Arts - General KW - Data processing KW - Mathematics KW - Research KW - Data processing. KW - Mathematics. KW - Composing (Music) KW - Music composing KW - Music composition KW - Musical composition KW - Creativeness KW - Creativity KW - Composition KW - Computer science. KW - Music. KW - Application software. KW - Multimedia systems. KW - Computer Science. KW - Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities. KW - Media Design. KW - Computer-based multimedia information systems KW - Multimedia computing KW - Multimedia information systems KW - Multimedia knowledge systems KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Application computer programs KW - Application computer software KW - Applications software KW - Apps (Computer software) KW - Computer software KW - Art music KW - Art music, Western KW - Classical music KW - Musical compositions KW - Musical works KW - Serious music KW - Western art music KW - Western music (Western countries) KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Ability KW - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Concertante style KW - Information systems. KW - Multimedia systems . KW - Musical analysis. KW - Computer composition (Music) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8580454 AB - This book represents a new approach to musical creativity, dealing with the semiotics, mathematical principles, and software for creativity processes. After a thorough introduction, the book offers a first practical part with a detailed tutorial for students in composition and improvisation, using musical instruments and music software. The second, theoretical part deals with historical, actual, and new principles of creative processes in music, based on the results and methods developed in the first author’s book Topos of Music and referring to semiotics, predicative objects, topos theory, and object-oriented concept architectures. The third part of the book details four case studies in musical creativity, including an analysis of the six variations of Beethoven's sonata op. 109, a discussion of the creative process in a CD coproduced in 2011 by the first and second authors, a recomposition of Boulez’s "Structures pour deux pianos" using the Rubato software module BigBang developed by the third author, and the Escher theorem from mathematical gesture theory in music. This is both a textbook addressed to undergraduate and graduate students of music composition and improvisation, and also a state-of-the-art survey addressed to researchers in creativity studies and music technology. The book contains summaries and end-of-chapter questions, and the authors have used the book as the main reference to teach an undergraduate creativity studies program and also to teach composition. The text is supported throughout with musical score examples. ER -