Prelude: The spectrum of musical creativity

The present chapter is not aimed at reviewing all the (generally unanswered) questions that have been raised in various subfields of the study of creativity. We shall limit ourselves to a few of them, from the point of view of psychologists, not of “psychology”, because these authors may not be typical of the average representative of a science still lacking unity, let alone consistency (for a survey of the current state of affairs in psychological research on creativity, see Sternberg, 1999).