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Article: IMPROVISATION: AN ALWAYS-ACCESSIBLE INSTRUMENT OF INNOVATION.(music)
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- Perspectives of New Music
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- June 22, 1999
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CREATIVITY YESTERDAY AND TODAY
IN ECCE HoMo (1889) Nietzsche wrote: "A thought flashes up like I lightning, with necessity, unfalteringly formed--I have never had any choice" (Nietzsche 1979, 102-3). This description of how his thoughts emerge corresponds to a popular idea of the creative process that has persisted until the present day: The striking artistic idea appears suddenly; it is unexpected and obsessional. Creativity is considered to be a miracle that cannot be understood or predicted. Composers such as Mahler, Pfitzner and Schonberg enforced the authority of this "romantic" image by destroying their sketches and thus preventing others from insights into ...
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