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Payne, EL orcid.org/0000-0003-2109-8126 (2016) Creativity beyond innovation: Musical performance and craft. Musicae Scientiae, 20 (3). pp. 325-344. ISSN 1029-8649
Abstract
While creativity has been defined in a multiplicity of ways across disciplines, scholars generally agree that it involves the generation of ideas or products that are novel, of value, and appropriate to the field. Yet by too readily connecting creativity in musical performance to innovation, does this model neglect the more inconspicuous and unrecognised, but no less valuable, dimensions of creativity in score-based performance? This article offers a characterisation of musical performance situated within a framework of craft, by tracing rehearsal strategies employed in two new performance projects: the rehearsals for, and first performance of Four Duets for clarinet and piano (2012) by Edmund Finnis, written for Mark Simpson and Víkingur Ólafsson; and a recording made by Antony Pay of Alexander Goehr’s Paraphrase for solo clarinet Op. 28 (1969). My argument draws attention to “everyday” aspects of music-making, in which musicians make decisions in engaging with their work which are less explicit than the conventional “moments of revelation” that are prevalent in the literature, but which are nonetheless significant. Acknowledging these attributes of musicians’ performance practices can serve to develop a more nuanced understanding of creativity based on processes rather than outcomes, in order to move beyond a paradigm that opposes notated permanence to improvised transience.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2016, The Author. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Musicae Scientiae. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | craft; creativity; improvisation; music; notation; performance; rehearsal |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2017 11:36 |
Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2020 11:25 |
Published Version: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1029864916631034 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1029864916631034 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:111016 |
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