For this week’s creative act, I thought focusing on my solo Marimba work as a good way to channel my creative self. As I had mentioned in my “Expectations” paper, I am a third year music student studying percussion. This year I am expected to learn a great deal of music to add to my repertoire. This week I have been digging very deep into “Mexican Dances”, a solo piece for large Marimba. It is typical for most third year percussionists to learn this piece. So now I am expected to get it under my belt, and fast. It will not be an easy semester, for this piece is very challenging. Sometimes my arms allow me to do what is needed - practice for extended periods of time and be intensely focused throughout the practice session. However I have had days where I am unable to play what is needed, or memorize much if any of the piece.
However the technical aspect of learning music such is this has boiled up a question that has been bouncing around in my head ever since I got back to school.
Am I being creative when I play music written by someone else?
Or does the emotion I put into the music when I play it mean I’m creative?
An over powering urge to know if I’m creative even though I don’t write music was sparked by the questions asked by Peter in this weeks class.
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