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Book Announcement: Controlling Creative Processes in Music . . . [EDP] (C)


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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:

                "CONTROLLING CREATIVE PROCESSES IN MUSIC"
                          by Reinhard Kopiez & Wolfgang Auhagen (Eds.)

                     is out at Peter Lang Publishers (ISBN 3-631-33116-9,
                                     including a CD with sound examples)
                                               [http://www.peterlang.de]

Description:

More than 60 years have passed since Julius Bahle's fundamental study of 
the creative musical process in 1936.  In his questionnaires he asked 
various composers which strategies they used when setting given lyrics to 
music and  which steps of control were applied before the final version of 
a new piece was completed.  Although Bahle gave the green light to a 
systematic investigation of creative musical processes, a simple repetition 
of his approach would not be possible nowadays because the historical 
development of the artist's position has become a mixture of the former, 
separated roles: Today the interpreter also serves as a composer, or the
listener as an interpreter.
        
For these reasons the editors were convinced that a new approach to the 
topic of creative processes in music could not be restricted to the field of
composition, but can be found in several artistic areas and therefore, 
creativity research must also include recent developments in other fields, 
such as performance research, cognitive psychology, computer music, and 
real-time improvisation. The idea of "control" and "regulation" in
creative processes is a link between the disparate disciplines. This led to
the interdisciplinary international conference Regulation of Creative
Processes in Music, which took place from 5-7 July 1996 at the Staatliches 
Institut fuer Musikforschung in Berlin.

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Contents:

- - Helga de la Motte-Haber
Kreativitaet und musikalisches Handwerk

- - Jurg Langner, Reinhard Kopiez & Bernhard Feiten
Perception and representation of multiple tempo hierarachies in musical
performance and composition: Perspectives from a new theoretical approach

- - Guerino Mazzola & Jan Beran
Rational composition of performance

- - Wolfgang Auhagen & Veronika Busch
The influence of articulation on listeners's regulation of performed tempo

- - Shuji Hashimoto & Hideyuki Sawada
Musical performance control using gesture: Toward kansei technology for art

- - Elena Ungeheuer
Speech-specific feedback processes in music and experimental speech 
composition

- - Uwe Seifert
Intelligente tutorielle Systeme, Hypermedia, Internet: Musikwissenschaft und
Musikpaedagogik in der Wissensgesellschaft

- - Ross Kirk & Andy Hunt
Computer assisted performance control for audio-visual instruments

- - Jean-Claude Risset
Real-time: Composition or performance? Reservations about real-time control 
in computer music and demonstration of a virtual piano partner

- - Tamas Ungvary
Creative and interpretative processmilieu for live-computermusic with the
Sentograph

- - Klang und Linie als Einheit. Helga de la Motte-Haber im Gespraech mit
Arvo Paert

- - Sound examples on CD

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The editors:

Reinhard Kopiez is Professor of Systematic Musicology at the Music Academy
in Wurzburg (Bavaria, Germany). His main interest is performance research.
Wolfgang Auhagen is Professor of Systematic Musicology at the Humboldt
University Berlin (Germany). He is working in the field of perception of
tempo and tonality.
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