The practices and perception of music creation have evolved with the cultural, social and technological contexts of music and musicians. But musical authorship, in its many technical and aesthetic modes, remains an important component of music culture. Musicians are increasingly called on to share their experience in writing. However, cultural imperatives to account for composition as knowledge production and to make claims for its uniqueness inhibit the development of discourse in both exper...

“Truth happens to an idea.” So wrote William James in 1907; and twenty-four years later John Dewey argued that artistic experience entailed a process of “doing and undergoing.” But what do these ideas have to do with music, or with research conducted in and through music—that is, with “artistic research”? In this collection of essays, fourteen very different authors respond with distinct and challenging perspectives. Some report on their own experiments and experiences; some off...

Liszt-kenner Albert Brussee beschrijft in dit rijk geïllustreerde boek de reis die Franz Liszt en Marie d’Agoult in de zomer van 1835 door Zwitserland ondernamen. Marie, in verwachting van haar minnaar, had met haar officiële echtgenoot, de al oudere oorlogsveteraan graaf d’Agoult, gebroken en was naar Bazel gevlucht; Liszt volgde haar enkele dagen later. Vanuit de stad aan de Rijn trokken de geliefden ruim een maand lang door Zwitserland om zich uiteindelijk in Genève te vestigen. Omd...