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Here is a discussion of the history of knapping as a kind of material science , and here is a discussion of algorithms . Music, as an aspect (product, by-product, coordinator) of workflow, also becomes its own something as in flintknapping . Indeed, Verdi exploited this aspect of music as a surplus (but also a coordinator) of an unrelated workflow with his anvil chorus .

One angle is to see European music history as related to the Italian and to the German (leaving out a discussion of the British, the French, the Russian, ... , but the Romantic movement brings in additional partakers in extant mythologies ... .  Leading questions: Does the Germanic development tend to re-use the Norse mythologies? ... Does the Italian development much use mythologies? But if it does, does it partake of the shared mythologies of the Romans and the Greeks? ...  Another angle is to see the mythological lineage of Germanic developments as related to Norse mythology in terms of perhaps its most famous practitioner, Wagner. Wagner also serves as the father of heavy metal. The answer as to why heavy metal references Norse mythology is loosely established in this direction.   On Wagner On Wagner and Heavy Metal  And, of course, there are other directions for the use of mythology.  Norse Mythology Politics  

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Depending on the definition picked from Mazzola for creativity, we face the problem of new-ness, but I don't much see new-ness as that much related to creativity as I do not see creativity as moving into being ex nihilo . Indeed, when we say animals are creative, we usually mean that they make babies of the same type, not new kinds of animals. Computational Counterpoint We do, however, moving toward ex nihilo , tend to think of creativity in the arts as tiger-alligators. Exotic Counterpoint I am, however, content with creativity in the ordinary sense: the act of making. When Mazzola lays out his scheme for creativity, i.e., the act of making, not the shamanistic act of bringing the new into being, his terms for creativity move closer to this sense of making, which, put in terms of context-concept, are somewhat Hegelian: Hegel on Concepts Conceptual Basis Hegel's Philosophy of Art Beethoven Hegel Adorno Dialectics as Counterpoint

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