Processes and Experiences of Creative Cognition in Seven Western Classical Composers.

ABSTRACT: In a qualitative study, we explored the range of reflections and experiences involved in the composition of score-based music by administering a 15-item, open-ended, questionnaire to seven professional composers from Europe and North America. Adopting a grounded theory approach, we organized six different codes emerging from our data into two higher-order categories (the act of composing and establishing relationships). Our content analysis, inspired by the theoretical resources of 4E cognitive science, points to three overlapping characteristics of creative cognition in music composition: it is largely exploratory, it is grounded in bodily experience, and it emerges from the recursive dialogue of agents and their environment. More generally, such preliminary findings

SUBMITTER: Schiavio A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9082970 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature