ABSTRACT
The current chapter presents research connected with online musical creativity highlighting the ways and the conditions in which musical creativity could be expressed. Different examples of how musical creativity on the internet are reported focus on the processes, the collaborative dimension and on how the musical events are elaborated providing evidence that creativity could be present in various life contexts of the wider community. The following three main research topics are considered: the strategies that students embraced while learning to play an improvised blues in an e-learning environment, the plans adopted by a rock band composing collaboratively online, and the processes during electroacoustic collaborative composing online. The first topic regards improvisation while the other two topics concern composing. Regarding the contexts, informal learning is the condition of two studies (playing an improvised blues and the rock band composing) while the electroacoustic collaborative composing online is developed in a more formal context. The aim is to identify actions for developing a teaching approach on processes rather than on products, which allows working on specific skills. Finally, educational implications and further developments are discussed.
