Books in the Studies in Musical Perf as Creative Prac series

Creative practice in music takes place in a distributed and interactive manner embracing the activities of composers, performers and improvisers. The thirteen chapters and twelve shorter Interventions of Distributed Creativity explore the ways in which collaboration and improvisation enable and constrain creative processes in contemporary music.

Shape is a concept widely used in talk about music, helping musicians in many genres to rehearse, teach and think about what they do. What makes a concept from vision so invaluable to work in sound? Music & Shape reveals the many ways in which shape is essential to music.

Global Perspectives on Orchestras offers innovative approaches to thinking about orchestras. It adopts ethnographic and comparative perspectives on symphony, Caribbean steel, Indian film orchestras and Indonesian gamelan ensembles. By considering the orchestra in diverse historical, intercultural and postcolonial contexts, the volume generates enhanced appreciation of this creative, political and social practice.