The New Traditional School in Scotland, phase 1

自1984年以来，苏格兰的传统音乐家们一直在发展实验性的创作实践，这些实践借鉴了“传统”，但超越了传统和结构，进入了创新和扩展的作品。现在有170多位作曲家创作这些音乐作品，通常是为了响应知名节日和组织的委托。这种性质和规模的活动在苏格兰以前从未见过，在欧洲国家也有类似的艺术活动。它为研究提供了一个新的领域，为实践的进一步发展提供了机会，并为进一步研究提供了相当大的潜力。在这个项目中，研究人员继续绘制这种独特的组合实践及其社区，直到2021年。对现有的音乐作品进行深入的访谈和分析，以增加对这些作品的主要特征的理解。以新的和现有的作品为特色的创意居住提供了贡献艺术知识和分析创意过程的机会。分数和录音沿着与研究中产生的各种材料将形成两个集合的基础上保存和访问：在苏格兰音乐中心，格拉斯哥和收集/在苏格兰研究档案馆和研究收藏中心，爱丁堡大学的学校档案馆的音乐收藏。研究结果将在一份关于即兴创作和传统音乐的研究论文或展览会以及一份关于传统和创造力的专著中传播。研究结果及艺术与研究资料，将有助国际学者，特别是民族音乐学、实践或艺术研究的学者，以及从事音乐工作的人士、教育工作者、支持文化发展的个人和机构。艺术研究与民族音乐学方法的结合，有助在新兴的艺术研究学科中建立传统艺术的早期尝试。这创造了探索实践，过程和艺术性的各个方面的机会，这些方面通过艺术创作得到最好的展示，以及传统艺术和其他艺术形式之间的比较和合作研究的机会。

Since 1984 traditional musicians in Scotland have been developing experimental creative practices that draw on 'the tradition' but move beyond its conventions and structures into innovative and extended compositions. There are now over 170 composers creating these musical works, usually in response to commissions from high profile festivals and organisations. Activity of this nature and scale has not been seen in Scotland before and there are similar examples of artistic activity in European countries. It presents a new area for research, opportunities for further advancement of the practice, and considerable potential for further study.In this project, the researcher continues the mapping of this unique compositional practice and its community up to 2021. Carries out in-depth interviews and analysis of existing musical works, to increase understanding of the key features of these compositions. Creative residencies featuring new and existing compositions provide the opportunity to contribute artistic knowledge and analyse creative processes. Scores and recordings along with varied materials produced in the research will form the basis of two collections for preservation and accessibility: a music collection at the Scottish Music Centre, Glasgow and a collection/archive at the School of Scottish Studies Archives and Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh. Results from the research will be disseminated in a research paper or exposition on improvisation and traditional music and a monograph on tradition and creativity. Both the findings and artistic and research materials will be of benefit to international scholars, particularly those from ethnomusicology and practice-based or artistic research, as well as practitioners, educators, and individuals and organisations supporting cultural development.The combination of artistic research and ethnomusicological methods facilitates an early attempt to establish traditional arts in the emerging discipline of artistic research. This creates opportunities to explore aspects of practice, process and artistry that are best exposed through making art, as well as the opportunity for comparative and collaborative research between the traditional arts and other art forms.