Musical Creativity & The Composition Engine: A Portfolio of Songs with Written CommentaryTools Gordon, James (2025) Musical Creativity & The Composition Engine: A Portfolio of Songs with Written Commentary. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
AbstractThis practice-based PhD project documents the development of a Creativity Support Tool (CST) – The Composition Engine – and its use in the composition and production of two albums of original music in the accompanying portfolio. The Composition Engine synthesises multiple models of creativity from the literature into a map of the creative process and organises them into stages that a composer can move through (or jump around within) while writing or producing music. The model incorporates two principal modes of creativity, "divergent" and "convergent", and includes process guides, prompts-for-action, and sources of raw material to select from. This research is contextualised within the field of Practice-as-Research (PaR), where the creative practice itself is a primary form of research evidence.
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![[thumbnail of Portfolio - Album 1 Artwork]](https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/81044/3/A1%20_Album%20Art.jpg "Portfolio - Album 1 Artwork")
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