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Friedemann Sallis’ Music Sketches (2015) is the first comprehensive overview of sketch studies research. For all its impact on musicology since its rise in the 1970s, this field has only rarely been considered critically, e.g. Thomas M. Whelan’s unpublished dissertation (1990), Sallis & Patricia Hall’s edited collection on 20th-century musical sketches (2004), as well as William Kinderman’s discussion of sketch studies in light of ‘genetic criticism’ in a co-edited volume (2009) and a monograph (2011). Drawing on these as well as many other scholars from a variety of periods, places and disciplines, Sallis’ book offers up-to-date information about recent research in the creative process, and calls for historical and epistemological awareness in defining its goals, methods, and objects. All of these have evolved over time, and are still changing. This roundtable will discuss various issues in sketch studies raised by Sallis – and the way he raises them – from the evidence of early music creative process, and the ‘dangerous liaison’ between music analysis and sketches, to the future of the field. The round table will be chaired by Nicolas Donin (IRCAM).