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A Changing Role for the Composer in Society: A Study of the Historical Background and Current Methodologies of Creative Music-Making
Contributor(s): Laycock, Jolyon (Author)

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 ISBN: 303910277X     ISBN-13: 9783039102778
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
OUR PRICE: $123.79  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2005
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Instruction & Study - Composition
- Education | Adult & Continuing Education
- Music | History & Criticism - General
Dewey: 781.302
LCCN: 2005050443
Physical Information: 442 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Music is unique among the arts in its ability to bring large numbers of people together in a communal creative activity transcending social, cultural and linguistic boundaries. This book looks at many examples of composers working in schools, community centres, hospitals and other situations which are not traditional contexts for music. Examples are taken from the United Kingdom as well as from projects from other places in Europe which participated in the EU-funded 'Rainbow across Europe' programme. This study examines the development over the past hundred years of what has come to be known as creative music-making, and traces its spread in other parts of Europe and beyond. It also shows how the composer's role has developed from the nineteenth-century Romantic view of a heroic figure expressing his own inner emotional life in music, towards a more socially conscious inspirational catalyst whose role is to stimulate musical creativity in others.
 
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