Theories of Creativity in Music: Students' Theory Appraisal and Argumentation.

ABSTRACT: Most research on people's conceptions regarding creativity has concerned informal beliefs instead of more complex belief systems represented in scholarly theories of creativity. The relevance of general theories of creativity to the creative domain of music may also be unclear because of the mixed responses these theories have received from music researchers. The aim of the present study was to gain a better comparative understanding of theories of creativity as accounts of musical creativity by allowing students to assess them from a musical perspective. In the study, higher-education music students rated 10 well-known theories of creativity as accounts of four musical target activities-composition, improvisation, performance, and ideation-and argued for the "best theoretical perspectives

SUBMITTER: Huovinen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8027343 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature