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Improvisation is central to Indian Classical Music (ICM), where ragas—which can be thought of as tonal frameworks designed to evoke a plethora of emotions—are brought to life through not only through the musical notes used in it, but through the nuanced note to note transitions, their rhythms and variations in those rhythms, and creation of melodic phrases across different sections of the rendition. Performers see the ragas as living, dynamic entities, blending structured rules with creative freedom, making each rendition unique. Despite improvisation’s prominence in ICM, scientific studies on its cognitive and behavioral impacts remain scarce, unlike a much-elaborated volume of research on Western jazz music or its contribution in music therapy, where the researchers explore improvisation’s links to creativity, neural plasticity, and emotional resilience. To address this research gap, this paper investigates whether training of improvisation in ICM correlates with certain personality traits (e.g., openness, extraversion etc., measured via Big Five Personality Test) and different creative orientations (measured via Kaufman’s K-DOCS), while also assessing its influence on tolerance of uncertainty and ambiguity in everyday decision-making. Two groups—40 musicians, trained in ICM and 85 musically untrained non-musicians—completed the fours surveys on personality traits, creative dimensions, and uncertainty and ambiguity tolerance. Findings suggest that compared to the non-musician group, the musicians trained in ICM show significantly higher openness, extraversion and agreeableness in Big Five Scale, greater performance-based creativity in K-DOCS, and better acceptance of uncertainty and ambiguity in the process and perceptual aspects of decision-making, highlighting the positive influence of improvisation training in all these areas. Future work will explore if improvisation is a trainable skill or innate trait, with implications for fostering creativity and decision-making in arts, leadership, and education through targeted musical training.

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A Subjective Response-Based Exploration of the Relationship Between Musical Improvisation Training with Personality Type, Creative Orientation, and Attitude Towards Uncertainty and Ambiguity

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  • 发表日期：

    2025年

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  • Archi Banerjee,
  • Nandini Talukder,
  • Junmoni Borgohain,
  • Priyadarshi Patnaik

摘要

Improvisation is central to Indian Classical Music (ICM), where ragas—which can be thought of as tonal frameworks designed to evoke a plethora of emotions—are brought to life through not only through the musical notes used in it, but through the nuanced note to note transitions, their rhythms and variations in those rhythms, and creation of melodic phrases across different sections of the rendition. Performers see the ragas as living, dynamic entities, blending structured rules with creative freedom, making each rendition unique. Despite improvisation’s prominence in ICM, scientific studies on its cognitive and behavioral impacts remain scarce, unlike a much-elaborated volume of research on Western jazz music or its contribution in music therapy, where the researchers explore improvisation’s links to creativity, neural plasticity, and emotional resilience. To address this research gap, this paper investigates whether training of improvisation in ICM correlates with certain personality traits (e.g., openness, extraversion etc., measured via Big Five Personality Test) and different creative orientations (measured via Kaufman’s K-DOCS), while also assessing its influence on tolerance of uncertainty and ambiguity in everyday decision-making. Two groups—40 musicians, trained in ICM and 85 musically untrained non-musicians—completed the fours surveys on personality traits, creative dimensions, and uncertainty and ambiguity tolerance. Findings suggest that compared to the non-musician group, the musicians trained in ICM show significantly higher openness, extraversion and agreeableness in Big Five Scale, greater performance-based creativity in K-DOCS, and better acceptance of uncertainty and ambiguity in the process and perceptual aspects of decision-making, highlighting the positive influence of improvisation training in all these areas. Future work will explore if improvisation is a trainable skill or innate trait, with implications for fostering creativity and decision-making in arts, leadership, and education through targeted musical training.