The Imagination of Experiences: Musical Invention, Collaboration, and the Making of Meanings

ISBN-13: 9780367569280 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 122 str.

Alan Taylor

Opis

Aimed at lay, student, and academic readers alike, this book concerns the imagination, and specifically imagination in music. It opens with a discussion of the invalidity of the idea of the creative genius and the connected view that ideas originate just in the individual mind.

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After a career as a geography academic, civil servant, local government officer, and political activist, Alan Taylor turned to music halfway through life and has since gained a PhD on the subject of the musical imagination. He is an active community musician, conducting two ensembles, performing in others, and directing the Herne Hill Music Festival.