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Collaborative Creativity is a powerful methodology for groups that uses short bursts of creative challenges to help people go beyond rational/conscious thinking and uncover, with constructive consequences, the emotional/irrational sphere that influences behaviour.

The author analyses the substantial contribution made by American composers to the development of twentieth-century opera. The methodological approach employed in this book is influenced by Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski's method of integral interpretation. The operas analyzed in this monograph, written from 1976 onwards, represent a watershed in twentieth-century American opera, characterised by three main aspects: firstly, creation of video-opera, represented by the works of Steve Reich, secondly, creation of a new kind of opera based on topics related to contemporary events that are manifested...

It is the first monograph in which the concertos of all composers active in this field in the Republic of Venice in the years 1695-1740 are methodically discussed. The Venetian instrumental concerto from Vivaldi's time is portrayed here through an extensive and thorough survey of the most complete and representative musical material that allowed for the making of conclusions as to its typology, form, style and technique. The concertos discussed here include 974 works by fifteen composers active in Venice, Brescia, Bergamo and Padua. Such an approach not only gives an exhaustive but also a...

This book is interdisciplinary in nature and presents the dispute ‘around beauty’ in art of the last century. It is a synthesis of artistic phenomena and the aesthetic attitudes of composers, taking into account the ideological and social context of music written in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The proposed historiographical structure is based on the assumption that diverse artistic phenomena and aesthetic attitudes can be interpreted in relation to the idea of beauty, which in the twentieth century was ‘banished’. Jarzêbska presents disputes over the model of musical...