The Creative Process in Music from Mozart to Kurtag

by William Kinderman

Book Overview

Great music arouses wonder: how did the composer create such an original work of art? What was the artist's inspiration, and how did that idea become a reality? Cultural products inevitably arise from a context, a submerged landscape that is often not easily accessible. To bring such things to light, studies of the creative process find their cutting edge by probing beyond the surface, opening new perspectives on the apparently familiar. In this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252037162
• ISBN13: 9780252037160
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 10.0"