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Composing Processes and Artistic Agency

This monograph carries out an in-depth investigation into compositional
processes, shedding new light on the components and conditions that constitute
artistic agency. Artistic agency relies on the interlocking of such activities that
emerge from various propositional and non-propositional (experiential, corporeal,
sensory) forms of knowledge – listening, feeling, imagining, trying out, reflect-
ing, noting and correcting, which represents a small selection of the multi-
faceted composing activities. The book develops an understanding of artistic
agency and mastery in its fundamentally social nature, through the important,
though largely ignored output of creative compositional processes.
Using a mixture of case studies and theoretical frameworks, this book will
appeal to sociologists, musicologists, creative studies scholars, and artists,
particularly those who teach composition or research on this topic, as well as
students of MA- and PhD-level.

Tasos Zembylas is a Professor of Cultural Institution Studies at the Department
of Music Sociology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna,
Austria.

Martin Niederauer (Dr. phil.) studied sociology in Trier and Frankfurt am
Main. He currently works at the Faculty of Design at the University of
Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany.