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Book Review: The Imagination of Experiences. Musical Invention, Collaboration, and the Making of Meanings

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  • Specialty section: This article was submitted to Performance Science, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

  • In this highly condensed volume, Alan Taylor, both scholar and performer in music, envisions three principal activities to this particular discipline—creation, performance, interpretation, each a different function of imagination, emphasizing the perception of the new, a skill not limited to exceptional people and stressing the need for one’s engagement within the world rather than withdrawal into workshop solitude

  • He draws a perspective with the thread he weaves through a compendium of research, extrapolation of conclusions from the literature and his own experience of music as performer, conductor, and composer

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Specialty section: This article was submitted to Performance Science, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Musical Invention, Collaboration, and the Making of Meanings In this highly condensed volume, Alan Taylor, both scholar and performer in music, envisions three principal activities to this particular discipline—creation (composer), performance (musician), interpretation (listener), each a different function of imagination, emphasizing the perception of the new, a skill not limited to exceptional people and stressing the need for one’s engagement within the world rather than withdrawal into workshop solitude.

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