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Who can be a composer: new paradigms for teaching creative process in music

Introduction You get a strange set of reactions when you ask a college music student to compose. They protest that they are not creative, that they have no original musical ideas, or that they don't possess the skills needed to assemble a convincing musical utterance. When pressed they will reveal their belief that it is senseless to compose anything but a masterwork and that all the really good composers are dead white men. Unless they have been very lucky, this is the subtext that traditional music education has given them.