To be creative means to create something, to create something. In music for creativity, vast spaces are open. Types of musical creativity are diverse, primarily because the music is closely intertwined with human life, coupled with all its manifestations and creative veins.
In general, in literature, usually, types of musical (and not only musical) creativity imply: professional, folk and amateur creativity. Sometimes shared in another way: for example, secular art, church art and popular music. We will try to dig deeper and describe something more specific.
Here are the main types of musical creativity that can be defined:
Music Creation, that is, composer creativity - the composition of new works: operas, symphonies, plays, songs, and so on.
In this area of creativity there are many roads: someone writes music for the theater, someone for the cinema, someone tries to convey his intentions in the sounds of purely instrumental music, someone draws accurate musical portraits, some want to express the tragedy in a musical work or farce, sometimes the authors manage to write historical annals of music. As you can see, the composer is a real creator! The truth is different.
For example, someone writes just to prove that he can write, but there are also such composers who write nonsense so that enthusiastic listeners try to find meaning in places where there is none! We hope that you have nothing to do with the last "dust throwers in the eyes"? You do agree that music should not be meaningless?
Processing someone else's music - arrangement. This is also creativity! What is the purpose of the arranger? Change the format! Make it so that the music can be shown to as many people as possible, so much so that the meaning does not diminish from the changes. This is a worthy goal of a true artist. But to deprive music with a sense of its meaning — for example, to debase classical music — is not a creative method. Such "good fellows", alas, are not real creators.
Musical and poetic creativity - The creation of texts of musical works. Yes! This, too, can be attributed to the types of musical creativity. And we are not necessarily talking only about folk songs and poems for romances. Strong text is needed in the theater! Creating a libretto for an opera is not a halam ball. Something about the rules of writing lyrics for songs can be read here.
Sound engineering - Another kind of musical creativity. Very popular and very exciting. Without the work of a music director, the film may not receive its laurels at the festival. Although what are we? Sound engineering can be not only a profession, but also an excellent home hobby.
Performing arts (playing musical instruments and singing). Too creativity! Someone will ask, what are they doing? What create? You can answer in a philosophical way - they create sound streams. In fact, the performers - vocalists and instrumentalists, as well as their various ensembles - create unique things - artistic-musical-semantic canvases.
Sometimes what they create is recorded in a video or audio format. So, it is not fair to deprive performers of creative crowns - they are creators, we listen to their products.
The performers also have different goals - some of them want to conform to the performing traditions with their playing or, perhaps, to express exactly what they think the author has put into the work. Others play cover versions.
By the way, the cool trick of these covers is a form of reviving forgotten melodies, their actualization. Needless to say, now the music is so varied that even with a great desire, it’s not that it can’t be remembered all in all. And then on you - you go to a car or a minibus and on the radio you hear another cover hit, and you think: "Bliiiin, yes, this song was popular a hundred years ago ... But good music, it's great that you remembered about it."
Improvisation - this is the composition of music right during its performance. Just as in the performance, the product of creativity is unique and inimitable if this product is not recorded in any way (notes, audio, video).
Production work. In the old days (so conditionally put it) producers were called impresario. Producers are people who cook in the common creative "porridge from the ax" and look out for original personalities for themselves, involve them in some interesting project, and then, having developed this project not childly, they cut down their grandmothers.
Yes, the producer is both a prudent businessman and a creator in one person. Such are the peculiarities of the production work, but the production itself can be quite easily attributed to the types of musical creativity, because there is no way without creativity.
Musical writing, criticism and journalism - Another area of musical creativity. Well, there is nothing to say here - those who write clever and funny books about music, articles in newspapers and encyclopedias, scientific works and feuilletons are undoubtedly the real creators!
Musical and visual arts. But you thought that this does not happen? Here you are, please. First, sometimes the composer not only composes music, but also writes pictures about his music. So did, for example, the Lithuanian composer Mikalojus Чurlionis and the Russian composer Nikolai Roslavets. Secondly, many are now engaged in visualization - a very interesting and fashionable direction.
By the way, do you know about the phenomenon of color hearing? This is when a person associates certain sounds or tones with a color. Maybe some of you, dear readers, have a color ear?
Listening to music - This is also one of the types of musical creativity. What do the listeners build, except for applause, of course? And they, perceiving music, in their imagination create artistic images, representations, associations - and this, too, is the real work.
Selection of music by ear - yes and yes again! This is a skill that is very much appreciated in a wide public environment. Usually people who know how to pick up any melodies by ear are honored as craftsmen.
Musical creativity can engage everyone!
The most important thing is that absolutely any person can realize himself in his work. To be a creator, you do not have to become a professional, you do not have to go through some serious school. Creativity comes from the heart, his main working tool is imagination.
Types of musical creativity should not be confused with the musical professions, which can be read here - "What are the musical professions?".
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