Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Composing Processes and Artistic Agency: Tacit Knowledge in Composing -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Starting-point and research interest -- Empirical bases and research design -- Overview of chapters -- 1. The topography of composing work -- 1.1 Parameters and resources -- 1.2 Peers and non-peers -- 1.3 Material objects: musical instruments, computers and writing materials -- 1.4 Immaterial objects: discourses, notation systems, algorithms and software -- 2. The processuality of composing -- 2.1 Exploring - Understanding - Valuing - Making -- 2.2 The cohesion of activities inherent in processes -- 2.3 The artistic creative processes as a dynamic interlinking of actions -- 3. Orchestrating different forms of knowledge -- 3.1 The various manifestations of artistic practical knowing -- 3.2 The centrality of learning -- 3.3 Forms of knowledge in composing processes: an interpretative order -- 3.4 The synergy between the various forms of knowledge -- 4. Musicological perspectives on composing -- 4.1 Perspectives on composing-as-process: a historical outline -- 4.2 The components of composing practices and their interrelations: present-day observations -- Index