Title: Composition, performance, reception : studies in the creative process in music /
Authors: Thomas, Wyndham.
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Music Psychological aspects; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Music Performance
Contents: The process of composition fromn detection to confection / Robert Saxton -- The composer and opera performance / Raymond Warren -- Composing, arranging and editing : a historical survey / Wyndham Thomas -- A performer's responsibility / Susan Bradshaw -- Freedom of interpretation in twentieth-century music / Charles Rosen -- The body in performance / Eric Clarke and Jane Davidson -- Expectation and interpretation in the reception of new music : a case study / Adrian Beaumont -- The domestic Gesamtkunstwerk, or Record sleeves and reception / Nicholas Cook -- Form and forming : from Victorian aesthetics to the mid-twentieth-century avant-garde / Bojan Bujic -- Stravinsky and the vicious circle : some remarks about the composer and the press / Stephen Walsh -- Mobilising our man : politics and music in Poland during the decade after the Second World War / Adrian Thomas.