Bruce Adolphe

Dreaming and Thinking in Music (eBook, PDF)

Exercises for Exploring Inspiration and Imagination in Musical Creativity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Dreaming and Thinking in Music, Bruce Adolphe harnesses his wide-ranging experiences as a composer and educator to tackle one of the more elusive questions in music composition: how to get from technical ability to creative creation. Unlike standard composition textbooks that focus on writing melody, harmony, counterpoint, and rhythm, Dreaming and Thinking in Music guides readers to explore the rarely discussed problems of how to get ideas, and how to follow up with the appropriate techniques to realize those ideas. Exercises throughout the book prepare readers to receive, recognize, and seize moments of inspiration or musical vision through a variety of concepts to prompt imaginative musical thinking. Essays introduce and further explore topics such as hypnagogic dreams, improvisation, personal voice, composing based on lived experiences, and the influences of visual art, poetry, film, theater, and science. Adolphe's playful, erudite, yet fundamentally accessible approach serves as a guide for any composer, musician, or student interested in exploring their musical creativity from a non-technical viewpoint.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197821671
• Artikelnr.: 75203230

Autorenporträt

Bruce Adolphe is a composer of international renown and Resident Lecturer and Director of Family Concerts for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He is also widely known as the Piano Puzzler on public radio's Performance Today.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Reena Esmail
Preface: Using This Book
1. Prelude
2. Images and Emotions
3. Experiences, Lived and Imagined
4. Tradition and Text
5. Visual Art and Science
6. Dreaming Music
7. A Series of Endings
Bibliography
Selected Recordings of Music Mentioned in the Text
About the Author
Index