Composing Processes and Artistic Agency - Tacit Knowledge in Composing

List of contents

Introduction
1. The Topography Of Composing Work
1.1. Parameters and Resources
1.2. Peers and Non-Peers
1.3. Material Objects: Musical Instruments, Computers and Writing Materials
1.4. Immaterial Objects: Discourses, Notation Systems, Algorithms and Software
2. The Processuality Of Composing
2.1. Exploring – Understanding – Valuing – Making
2.2. The Cohesion of Activities Inherent in Processes
2.3. The Artistic Creative Processes as a Dynamic Interlinking of Actions
3. Orchestrating Different Forms of Knowledge
3.1. The Various Manifestations of Artistic Practical Knowing
3.2. The Centrality of Learning
3.3. Forms of Knowledge in Composing Processes: An Interpretative Order
3.4. The Synergy Between the Various Forms of Knowledge
4. Composing-As-Process: Musicological Perspectives, Andreas Holzer
4.1. Perspectives on Composing-As-Process: A Historical Outline
4.2. The Components of Composing Practices and their Interrelations: Present-Day Observations

About the author

Tasos Zembylas is a Professor of Cultural Institution Studies at the Department of Music Sociology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria.
Martin Niederauer (Dr. phil.) studied sociology in Trier and Frankfurt am Main. He currently works at the Faculty of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany.

Summary

The book investigates compositional processes shedding new light on the components and conditions that constitute artistic agency. Using a mixture of case studies and theoretical frameworks, this book will appeal to sociologists, musicologists, creative studies scholars, and artists particularly those who teach composition or research on this topic as well as students of MA- and PhD-level.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Niederauer, Martin (University of Music and the Performing Arts Niederauer, Tasos Zembylas, Tasos (University of Music and Performin Zembylas, Tasos (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Zembylas, Tasos Niederauer Zembylas, Zembylas Tasos
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138215498
• ISBN: 978-1-138-21549-8
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology; Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, The arts: general issues, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, Theatre Studies, Theory of music & musicology, Society and culture: general, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Orchestras, The arts: general topics