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Studying musical creativity for managing music library services

Charilaos Lavranos (Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece)
Panagiotis Manolitzas (Department of Tourism, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece)
Petros Kostagiolas (Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece)
Evangelos Grigoroudis (School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece)

Library Management

ISSN: 0143-5124

Article publication date: 21 May 2020

Issue publication date: 20 October 2020

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to study and quantify musicians' creativity in order to tune music library services and pinpoint potential musical creative activities.

Design/methodology/approach/methodology/approach

Webster's conceptual framework for the creative thinking process in music is informing our survey while the analysis adopts a multiple criteria method for quantifying musical creativity. strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis is also adopted developing strategic decisions based on musicians' creativity behaviours.

Findings

Mental representations of the music heard (listening) is the most important dimension for creative thinking in music while dimensions such as recorded improvisations (improvisation), written analysis (analysis) and composed music scores (composition) follow. SWOT analysis provides further indications for music library services development based on musicians' creativity behaviours.

Originality/value

This study proposes a novel research vein based on multicriteria analysis within the contexts of musical creativity for managing music library services.

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Citation

Lavranos, C., Manolitzas, P., Kostagiolas, P. and Grigoroudis, E. (2020), "Studying musical creativity for managing music library services", Library Management, Vol. 41 No. 8/9, pp. 745-763. https://doi.org/10.1108/LM-02-2020-0014

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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