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Regional Juried Presentation: “The Mess of Music Composition” — 2023 College Music Society Central Conference
Kyle Vanderburg’s “The Mess of Music Composition” was selected through the Call for Oral & Poster Presentations for the 2023 CMS Central Conference.
Overview
Kyle Vanderburg presented “The Mess of Music Composition” at the 2023 College Music Society Central Conference at Wichita State University. The proposal was submitted through the conference’s Call for Oral & Poster Presentations and selected for inclusion on the program by the CMS Program Committee. Presented March 5, 2023, the project examined issues surrounding the creative process in music composition and contributed to Vanderburg’s developing research trajectory in composition pedagogy, compositional creativity, and systematic approaches to understanding how composers work.
Professional Context
This presentation represents regional juried dissemination of Vanderburg’s scholarship in composition pedagogy and creative-process research. “The Mess of Music Composition” was submitted through the College Music Society Central Chapter’s Call for Oral & Poster Presentations and selected for inclusion on the 2023 conference program by the CMS Program Committee. The presentation also represents an early stage in Vanderburg’s continuing investigation of compositional creativity, preceding subsequent work on mapping, documenting, and theoretically modeling the music-composition process.
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