Performance, Conservation, and Creativity: Mentoring for Musicianship in Four String Music Studios

223 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.Tying the issues that arose from the data to the literature reviewed in this dissertation brings to the fore the contrasting demands from performing musicians. On the one hand stands the demand for conservation of an original meaning of a work, and on the other stands the need to be creative. By contrasting the findings from this study with aesthetic, hermeneutic, and educational philosophy, I discuss musicianship as existing on a continuum between conservation and creativity. I also connect musicianship and mentorship, bringing to the fore the qualities that tie them together. I conclude this work by discussing how the tradition of music performance, and the movement on the continuum between conservation and creativity can be understood as both a process and a noun.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD