Music-Instruction & Study-Composition

Acoustic and MIDI Orchestration for the Contemporary Composer, Second Edition provides effective explanations and illustrations to teach you how to integrate traditional approaches to orchestration with the use of the modern sequencing techniques and tools available to today's composer. By covering both approaches, Pejrolo...

Digital technology is transforming the musical score as a broad array of innovative score systems have become available to musicians. From attempts to mimic the print score, to animated and graphical scores, to artificial intelligence-based options, digital scoring affects the musical process by opening...

Professional Orchestration's Orchestral Sketchbook is a companion to the multi-volume Professional Orchestration textbook series, which is a massive revision of the original Rimsky-Korsakov's Principles of Orchestration. Modeled after music papers used in film-scoring in Los Angeles, printed on heavy 50lb weight white paper. Organized...

Professional Orchestration's Orchestral Sketchbook is a companion to the multi-volume Professional Orchestration textbook series, which is a massive revision of the original Rimsky-Korsakov's Principles of Orchestration. Modeled after music papers used in film-scoring in Los Angeles with four pre-ruled bars per page, on heavy...

Offers performers, teachers and students new insights into ornamentation.An important new reference work that has earned praise from America's leading Bach scholar and an impressive list of distinguished cellists.The Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach contain some one hundred trills, many open to diverse...

Notion is a unique program that combines notation, sequencing, and live performance into one easy-to-use package. This book shows all types of users - amateurs, teachers, and professionals - how to best use the program, and how it fits their creative needs for efficient...

This is the book now being serialized in conjunction with a free video course at americansongwriter.com (series began on 9/16/2013). Once-a-month blogs explain the content of each chapter. Free PDFs of selected content from the book are provided through americansongwriter.com. Video blogs will illustrate...

Basic Atonal Counterpoint is a guided course in atonal contrapuntal composition using pitch groups known as "sets." Included are sections on set theory, melodic construction, counterpoint in two and multi-voice writing, nesting, phrase structure and formal construction and innovative sections on transformations and variants,...

(Book). Tom Harrison's book How to Become a Film Composer gives up-and-coming composers the inspiration, information and the tools necessary to succeed in today's music for media industry. Harrison has spent years working on the front line in Hollywood, where he has held key...

If you are a C programmer interested in music or a composer hoping to expand your musical horizons, Computer Music in C provides you with a practical library of algorithms and related C programming functions that will ease your transition into computer-assisted composition. Phil...

In Nashville they call it "The Number System." Easy to understand, this book will have you immediately composing your own tunes and arranging simple ways to accompany any song you want to play or sing. In fact, I know a girl who joined a...

The Analysis of Form as Displayed in Beethoven's Thirty-Two Pianoforte Sonatas has description of each movement as well as the specific forms of Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation. One of the most important reprints of Beethoven, this is the original Novello Plates from 1900. First...

What makes music sound happy? What makes it sound sad? Tense? Relaxed? Beautiful? Powerful? Scary? Nostalgic? We will seek to answer the fundamental question: What makes music sound the way it sounds? The more deeply we can answer this question, on both logical and...

These beautiful books give you the perfect place to write not only music but also your lyrics.Each page of staff lines are paired with half sheets (blank on the top and lined on the bottom). These pages allow you to not only get your...

There are millions of self-taught musicians in this world. Some can't read a stitch of music and can only play by ear. If this describes you and you want to learn how to read and write music in a step-by-step, easy to follow fashion,...

TV composer Michael Kruk has written and produced the music for many major documentary series which have been seen by millions of viewers worldwide. Michael has produced scores for David Attenborough documentaries through to series for the BBC Natural History Unit. His music has...

A music business handbook with a twist: In 'So You Want To Become a Media Composer?', Adonis Aletras provides all the necessary insight for beginners and professionals alike in a very unique way: by utilizing 65 of the BEST composers, performers and industry executives...

Would you like to become a better composer, advance your skills, and increase your creativity? This book can help you: Become a more skilled composer. Be a more prolific composer. Promote your work. Get your pieces performed. Publish your music. Even now, as a...

Harmony Through Melody: The Interaction of Melody, Counterpoint, and Harmony in Western Music, Second Editionoffers a robust, composition-based approach to tonal music theory, ranging from early modality to recent film and popular music. Charles Horton, David A. Byrne, and Lawrence Ritchey develop techniques and...

This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson. It is the first publication to offer a broad discussion of this influential theorist whose innovations have far-reaching ramifications for microtonal tuning systems. This study addresses...

'I am delighted to commend this excellent book... It offers readers, whether people affected by Parkinson's or other neurological conditions, family members, health and care professionals or musicians who lead music for health activities, a wonderful resource. They share their wealth of practical experience...

Digital technology is transforming the musical score as a broad array of innovative score systems have become available to musicians. From attempts to mimic the print score, to animated and graphical scores, to artificial intelligence-based options, digital scoring affects the musical process by opening...

Composing for Voice: Exploring Voice, Language and Music, Second Edition, elucidates how language and music function together from the perspectives of composers, singers and actors, providing an understanding of the complex functions of the voice pedagogically, musicologically and dramatically. Composing for Voice examines the...

In Mixing with Impact: Learning to Make Musical Choices, Wessel Oltheten discusses the creative and technical concepts behind making a mix. Whether you're a dance producer in your home studio, a live mixer in a club, or an engineer in a big studio, the...

This book explores the fundamentals of computer music and functional programming through the Haskell programming language. Functional programming is typically considered difficult to learn. This introduction in the context of creating music will allow students and professionals with a musical inclination to leverage their...

In WHOLE PERSON DRUMMING, Zorina Wolf shares her passion for drumming and the heartful community it can create. With plenty of stories from her own journey as student and teacher, Zorina offers exercises for all learning styles. Accompanying videos are available on Zorina's website....

Music consists of three elements - melody, harmony, and rhythm. This book deals with the creation of melodies derived from various materials. If put into practice, it will give you an endless wealth of concepts. You should never run out of new and interesting...

(Manuscript Paper). 32-page stitched book with Mickey Mouse character on each page; large 6-staves per page; 8-1/2 x8-1/2; includes music notation guide.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0881885045ISBN-13: 9780881885040Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1986Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.20h x 8.20w x 0.40d

In Writing Music for Commercials: Television, Radio, and New Media, professor, composer, arranger, and producer Michael Zager describes the process of composing and arranging music specifically for commercials across the growing variety of media formats. Writing music for commercials requires composers not only learn...

During the late 1890s and early 1900s, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was an important and popular British composer. Respected by such contemporaries as Sir Arthur Sullivan, Sir Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, he attracted the attention of the British music critics, who...

Like his compositions, Milton Babbitt's writings about music have exerted an extraordinary influence on postwar music and thinking about music. In essays and public addresses spanning fifty years, Babbitt has grappled profoundly with central questions in the composition and apprehension of music. These writings...

Composers have used formalized procedures to create music throughout history. With the advent of the computer, algorithmic composition allows composers not only to create and experiment with different formalisms, but to hear and evaluate results quickly. Often in algorithmic composition, the composer has only...

Orchestration: An Anthology of Writings is designed to be a primary or ancillary text for college-level music majors. Although there are several 'how to' textbooks aimed at this market, there is little available that traces the history of orchestration through the writings of composers...

Creative Music Composition is designed to be an introductory textbook for music students. "Creative composition"-composing in your own style, rather than in the style of a composer of the past-is embraced by music educators not only for composition students, but for beginning performers and...

Brimming with advice and techniques, this essential reference for book- and songwriters clearly explains the fundamentals of the three crafts of a musical--book, music, and lyrics. Using copious examples from classic shows, Frankel has created the quintessential musical writers' how-to. Among the topics: definitions...

Virtual Music is about artificial creativity. Focusing on the author's Experiments in Musical Intelligence computer music composing program, the author and a distinguished group of experts discuss many of the issues surrounding the program, including artificial intelligence, music cognition, and aesthetics.The book is divided...

If you want to learn how to choose, maintain, and play the guitar, then check out HowExpert Guide to Playing Guitar.Want to learn guitar? Always wanted to play guitar but never knew where to start? This easy-to-follow guide has everything you need to get...

Produce Your Own Sounds with GarageBand!Whether you want to record lyrics, an instrument, or a podcast, GarageBand can help you achieve ultimate sound perfection.GarageBand Basics is a beginner-friendly guide of all the basic knowledge you need to start using GarageBand.With mini tutorials on each...

In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of 'sonic phantoms': auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a 'phantasmatic' presence. Structured around a large body of compositional work developed by...

In modern times we are accustomed to one set of characters for writing words (the alphabet 'A' through 'Z') and another for writing numbers (the digits '0' through '9'). The ancient Greeks and Hebrews, however, used the alphabet for both words and numbers. So...

Make better songs faster with FL Studio ShortcutsName me one bodybuilder who doesn't know how to lift weights. Show me one soldier who doesn't know how to fire a rifle. Now tell me what music producer doesn't know how to use a DAW. And...

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization examines the invisible discrimination against female musicians in the French jazz world and the ways in which women thrive as professionals despite such conditions. The author shines a light on the paradox for women in jazz: to express...

The Digital Musician, Third Edition is an introductory textbook for creative music technology and electronic music courses. Written to be accessible to students from any musical background, this book examines cultural awareness, artistic identity and musical skills, offering a system-agnostic survey of digital music...

What does a one hour contemporary orchestral piece by Georg Friedrich Haas have in common with a series of glitch-noise electronic tracks by Pan Sonic? This book proposes that, despite their differences, they share a particular understanding of sound that is found across several...

Effective music production can be a challenge. This is where The Music Producer's Guide comes in. Each book is designed to demystify a music production concept, bringing professional results to your tracks.In The Music Producer's Guide to Compression, you will learn: ⦁ The history...

Hello and welcome to my Book "The Music Production Guide". My Name is Raphael von Hoch, known as Trenox, a young music producer from Germany and the information provided to you in this Guide is all techniques that are needed to produce a professional...

This dissertation essay examines two contemporary operas, L'Amour de loin by Kaija Saariaho and Hamlet by Christian Jost. It describes the influences on each composer that led to their respective operas. In Chapter 1 of the essay, Kern presents both composers' biographies with particular...

A practical guide to professional orchestration featuring recorded musical examples performed by Henry Mancini. Included in the book are sections on the woodwinds, brass, the rhythm section, and the string section. A recording is included to follow along with the printed scores.Author: Henry ManciniISBN-10:...

From the classical violinist to the hip hop producer, creating music pays homage to principles of harmony. It is not just the sum of the musical parts that makes a song come alive, but how every part interacts with others to create more harmonies,...

Ferguson - Michael Brown - Greek Tragedy - Transformative Music - Dynamic Conversations Antigone in Ferguson shares the truth about justice as experienced on stage with spirit-felt, soulful, & captivating music composed and directed by Dr. Philip A. Woodmore in a unique adaptation written...