Creating Musical Experiences
A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2025 | Viewed by 397
Special Issue Editors
Interests: choral studies; conducting and leadership; music in its historical and cultural contexts; creative collaboration; music performance and recording
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The experience of musical performance often represents the culmination of an extensive artistic journey involving many considerations and inspirations, whether aesthetic, practical, literary, thematic, context-specific, or otherwise. For this Special Issue, we invite scholarly articles that explore the creation and curation of artistic experiences in the field of music. Research may encompass areas such as repertoire and programming, concert design and performance, collaborative composition or collaborative creative processes more broadly, and may pertain to live music or to non-live contexts, such as recordings, as a means of achieving experiential artistic outcomes. Topics may have a historical or contemporary focus and may arise from practitioner–researcher and/or academic musicologist perspectives, among others. Individual and collaborative articles are welcome.
Dr. Róisín Blunnie
Dr. Orla Flanagan
Guest Editors
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Arts is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- music performance
- artistic programming
- concert design
- curating musical experiences
- historical and contemporary performance design
- collaborative creativity and performance
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