Dreaming and Thinking in Music
Exercises for Exploring Inspiration and Imagination in Musical Creativity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 November 2025
- ISBN 9780197821640
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages168 pages
- Size 12x127x177 mm
- Weight 210 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 655
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Short description:
Dreaming and Thinking in Music provides an innovative and unique method for teachers and students of music composition, as well as any musician or student interested in exploring and nurturing their creative impulse. Reflective essays and exercises prepare the reader for conceiving, recognizing, and seizing moments of inspiration and musical visions through image suggestions and concepts that prompt imaginative musical thinking, thus bridging a gap often unaddressed in conventional music composition texts.
MoreLong description:
In Dreaming and Thinking in Music, Bruce Adolphe harnesses his wide-ranging experiences as a composer and educator to tackle one of the more elusive questions in music composition: how to get from technical ability to creative creation. Unlike standard composition textbooks that focus on writing melody, harmony, counterpoint, and rhythm, Dreaming and Thinking in Music guides readers to explore the rarely discussed problems of how to get ideas, and how to follow up with the appropriate techniques to realize those ideas.
Exercises throughout the book prepare readers to receive, recognize, and seize moments of inspiration or musical vision through a variety of concepts to prompt imaginative musical thinking. Essays introduce and further explore topics such as hypnagogic dreams, improvisation, personal voice, composing based on lived experiences, and the influences of visual art, poetry, film, theater, and science. Adolphe's playful, erudite, yet fundamentally accessible approach serves as a guide for any composer, musician, or student interested in exploring their musical creativity from a non-technical viewpoint.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Reena Esmail
Preface: Using This Book
1. Prelude
2. Images and Emotions
3. Experiences, Lived and Imagined
4. Tradition and Text
5. Visual Art and Science
6. Dreaming Music
7. A Series of Endings
Bibliography
Selected Recordings of Music Mentioned in the Text
About the Author
Index
