Musical Creativity Revisited: Educational Foundations, Practices and Research

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Chapter 1 Conceptualising creativity in musical development
Chapter 2 Musical creativity in neuroscience
Chapter 3 Developing secondary students' creativity through guided group composition and performance
Chapter 4 Developing conservatory students' creativity through musical dramatisation
Chapter 5 The power of musical creativity for cross-community integration
Chapter 6 Designing research on musical creativity and its development
Chapter 7 The role of software for qualitative analysis in musical creativity research
Chapter 8 The future of musical creativity studies

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How is creativity understood and facilitated across music education settings? What is the power of creativity in enhancing individual and group learning? How is musical creativity used as a tool for cross-community integration? How can we research the interactions of those engaged in musical activities aimed at creative development? These are just some of the questions addressed in this fascinating new monograph. Musical Creativity Revisited is an authoritative volume of insights from theory, practice-based research and methodological analyses. Its chapters celebrate the diversity of the many different ways in which young and adult learners develop musical creativity. Following on from Musical Creativity: Insights from Music Education Research (Ashgate, 2012) Odena offers novel examples from practice and precise suggestions on how to research it. This book will be an essential point of reference for students, researchers, practitioners and practitioner-researchers interested in music education and creativity across the arts and social sciences. The chapters have been organized into three sections – Foundations, Practices and Research – including examples from in-depth studies focussed on a secondary school in England, higher music education in Spain and out-of-school settings in Northern Ireland. This is a book that will fascinate readers, inspiring them to think deeply about the many different ways in which musical creativity can be developed, its purposes and how to research it.

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British Journal of Music Education

A welcome nuancing of the many recent studies that provide contributions to our understanding of creativity from a neuroscientific perspective...The final section on doing research in creativity offers...helpful ideas and insights into thinking about and uncovering the creative process in music...Practical examples and ideas are offered in terms of research design and using qualitative data analysis software...particularly useful for postgraduate students who are working on music educational projects; Odena provides lots of welcome ideas about how to do this sort of work....This book is a welcome addition to the literature on music education

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