Studying
music has helped humans grow for thousands of years. Even today, music is an
important part of many people’s lives. This is also a creative outlet.
Music can also be a catalyst for personal growth. Music has the power to
understand and express emotions. It can encourage creative ideas and new ways
of thinking. Richard Hovan argues that
music should be used as a tool for personal growth.
Creativity and Innovation
Ability to develop fresh ideas and intriguing connections is
called innovation. It leads to original artistic or scientific of the products.
Music stimulates diverse creative breakthroughs in various
domains. Historian and Beethoven biographer Maynard Solomon noted that
“Beethoven’s most important ‘creation’ had been the re-creation of his own
soul.” A similar phenomenon is observed when visual artists begin painting to
recover from trauma, individuals start gardening or working with animals to
reconnect with themselves through all senses, and managers listen to music
before or during intensive work to spur creativity.
Richard Hovan’s
key principle proposes that music is a huge development potential and can be
used for personal growth. It helps a person become who they really are,
understand themselves better, experience life more intensively, express one’s
feelings and emotions, meet new aspects of oneself, broaden one’s horizon and
liberate the mind. Music is thus a ‘creative’ instrument, helping to focus on
what one is doing – thereby stimulating creative processes and fostering
innovative ideas.
The Psychology of Music and Creativity
Creative behaviour in music is usually associated with the composition
of new pieces and the performance of these pieces in recitals, concerts, and
such. The intellectual processes of composition or interpretation are difficult
to observe directly, but perform an important role in determining the output of
creative behaviour. Sonnenschein argues that creative behaviour in music (and
probably creative behaviour in general) is mediated by unconscious intellectual
processes. She suggests that the intellectual, often unconscious, processes of
creative composition should be considered from the perspective of functional
structures in the brain. The conscious intellectual processes are linked to the
function of the left part of the brain, and the unconscious processes are
associated with the function of the right part of the brain. As the latter play
an important role in the creative involvement of the composer, it may be useful
in the course of introducing the creative involvement of the performing artist
also to explore a few aspects of the functioning of the right part of the
brain.
Creative intellectual processes are involved also in the
interpretation and performance of compositions formed by others. Some composers
indicate that the creative process involved in the performance of a composition
should be inspired mainly by an awareness of the composer’s state of mind and
of external and self-communication associated with the work—and less by the
structures or form that the composition entails. The creative processes
involved in live performances are thus subject to layers of complexity.
However, according to Milton, the question What is creative behaviour in music?
has been theorised for more universal creative behaviour. The approach is to
investigate the main component during the act of recognising common patterns in
different forms of behaviour, whether transacting an everyday life-problem or
exploring a music composition. Creative behaviour is then viewed as the
symbolic form of a higher capability to establish a useful relationship between
the different elements of an achievement, whether being proved in a purchasing
transaction or a concerto performance.
Contemporary Views on Music as a
Developmental Tool
Music has always influenced human growth. Advancing this concept
today, Richard Hovan advocates a
vision of music as a developmental force.
Originally Posted At: https://richardhovan.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/unlocking-creativity-richard-hovan-personal-growth/
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