Music-Instruction & Study-Composition

In Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre: Three Methodological Reflections, three eminent music theorists consider the fundamentals of musical form. They discuss how to analyze form in music and question the relevance of analytical theories and methods in general. They illustrate their basic concepts and...

This book is intended to introduce concepts about music composition to band and orchestra students of all ages.Author: Alexander Koops, John L. WhitenerISBN-10: 1475848919ISBN-13: 9781475848915Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2020Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

(Schott). The book aims to be a guide through the little universe which is the working place of the man who writes music. As such it talks predominantly to the layman, although the expert composer may also find some stimulation in it... From the...

Principles of OrchestrationBy Nikolay Rimsky-KorsakovEdited by Maximilian SteinbergEnglish translation by Edward AgateRimsky-Korsakov had long been engrossed in his treatise on orchestration. We have in our possession a thick note book of some 200 pages in fine hand writing, dating from the years 1873-1874, containing...

This edition comes fully illustrated. It is a detailed text book of music notation and terminology, written in a way that all might understand, and it has several appendices covering such topics as musical instruments, the history of music notation, pronunciations and acoustics. It...

This workbook features low vision pages with extra large lines. Use this staff paper to write your next piece of musicAuthor: Thor WisteriaISBN-10: 1539847950ISBN-13: 9781539847953Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2016Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.11d

This workbook features pages with four systems consisting of a five-line musical staff with treble clef paired with a five-line tablature staff. Use this staff paper to write your next piece of musicAuthor: Thor WisteriaISBN-10: 1539797554ISBN-13: 9781539797555Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2016Pages: 52Format:...

This book discusses the myriad ways in which Beethoven begins his works and the structural, rhetorical, and emotional implications of these beginnings for listeners. Examining the opening moments of nearly 200 compositions, it offers a new method of analysis of Beethoven's music. At the...

This bass player tablature book makes an awesome bass player gift idea or bassist gift idea. Great for bass guitar tablature paper, bass guitar tablature for beginners, tablature notebook bass.Author: Tom JonesISBN-10: 1720366802ISBN-13: 9781720366805Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/25/2018Pages: 202Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 11.00h...

WANT TO WRITE MUSIC?Composer Boot Camp is a series of 50 exercises for educators and beginning, intermediate, and advanced musicians who want to develop their skills in composition. Composer Boot Camp 101 workbook is designed to help educators, students, and seasoned professionals to hone...

Mastering your music is like mastering your life. It's amazing what happens when you clean up the noise, maximize your good work, and have your music sparkle and shine as you really want it to. Desktop Mastering is a conceptual guide, intertwining a broad...

Digital Performer for Engineers and Producers is designed to help people who already have some familiarity with Digital Performer - or any other DAW software - jump directly into some of the extremely important and powerful capabilities of this incredible software. Author and noted...

From inspiring recipes for sculpting audio magic and mayhem to in-depth discussions of mixing and mastering that you would expect to learn in an audio production school, this book is designed to help you "out of your box" into a larger world. Sound Design,...

Ableton Live - whose unique, groundbreaking, incredibly flexible features set it far apart from all other digital audio applications - is equally at home with making beats, remixing, live recording, DJing, live looping, sound design, electronic music, hip-hop, and much more. Unlike other books...

Over several years, Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet have interviewed approximately 50 musicians from various backgrounds about their practice of musical improvisation. Musicians include both the very experienced such as Sophie Agnel, Burkhard Beins, John Butcher, Rhodri Davies, Bill Dixon, Phil Durrant, Axel D...

Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from "inaudible+? technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry had claimed perfect high fidelity already at the beginning of the twentieth century, these artists found surprising...

Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from "inaudible" technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry had claimed perfect high fidelity already at the beginning of the twentieth century, these artists found surprising...

Istvan Anhalt, himself a composer of many vocal works, has written an interdisciplinary study of the innovative vocal and choral music that has emerged in Europe and North America since the Second World War. Author: Istvan AnhaltISBN-10: 1442651423ISBN-13: 9781442651425Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

While the guitar has stood in the vanguard of musical experimentation, its many new techniques and notations remain a mystery for many composers and players. In The Contemporary Guitar, musician and scholar, John Schneider explains each class of technique and illustrates them with examples.Author:...

Camerata: A Guide to Organizing and Directing Small Choruses distinguishes itself from all other works on choral conducting by starting at the very beginning--the conception and purpose of an ensemble--and continuing through all other aspects of rehearsing and organizing a chorus to performance and...

Want to spark your songwriting creativity? Take up the challenge and read Worship Songwriting Tips one chapter each day for 30 days. You will find yourself well on your way to your best writing. Written in a conversational style, this easy to read volume...

Demonstrates how the basso continuo line has an independent musical funxtion in ensemble music of the Italian Baroque period. Covers the Italian Baroque period (1600-1730). Borgir rejects the notion that the basso continuo line is doubled by bass instruments and shows how these have...

Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms-from jazz and cinema to dance and literature-this volume's contributors locate improvisation as a key site of mediation between the social and the aesthetic. As a catalyst for social experiment and political practice, improvisation aids...

Providing thematic analysis and situating the score for this classic work within the context of the composer's life and career, Franz Waxman's Rebecca: A Film Score Guide will be of interest to musicologists and film scholars, as well as fans of Alfred Hitchcock and...

Counterpoint helps music theory and music composition students improve their musicianship by examining the voice leading that underlies Western tonal music. It proceeds by developing species counterpoint in the tradition of Johann Joseph Fux and his famous Gradus ad Parnassum (1725), but with attention...

The first English translation of lectures by a French contemporary of Debussy and Ravel French composer and educator Vincent d'Indy differed from contemporaries Debussy and Ravel in his conservative political and philosophical ideas and in his musical style. This redaction and English translation of...

(Instrumental Folio). Nine songs from the Andrew Lloyd Webber masterpiece: All I Ask of You * Angel of Music * Masquerade * The Music of the Night * The Phantom of the Opera * The Point of No Return * Prima Donna * Think...

This intermediate book introduces students to the art of original composition. It features the following composition tools: triplets, sixteenth notes, retrograde, inversion, diminution, augmentation, 7th chords, extended chord structures, elements of jazz, and 12-bar blues. This is hands-down THE BEST step-by-step guide for teaching...

This late elementary book introduces students to the art of original composition. It features the following composition tools: eighth notes, syncopation, sequences, phrasing, crescendo and diminuendo, musical high point, primary chords, pandiatonicism, upbeats and downbeats, and song lyrics. This is hands-down THE BEST step-by-step...

This early elementary book introduces students to the art of original composition. It features the following composition tools: range, damper pedal, dynamics, tempo, melody, harmony, repeated patterns, conversations, meter, and grand staff. This is hands-down THE BEST step-by-step guide for teaching and learning to...

Essentials of Music Notation presents current and correct notation practices in an easy-to-use format. Generously illustrated and concise, this book is essential to any musician looking for a handy reference for the correct notation of music. A most welcome and beneficial source for every...

Author: Arthur Tillman MerrittISBN-10: 0674180887ISBN-13: 9780674180888Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/1939Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

This ambitious study offers a panoramic survey of musical thought in the eighteenth century and, at the same time, a close analysis of the important theoretical topics of the period. The result is the most comprehensive account ever given of the theory behind the...

Prout's still indispensable work is profusely illustrated with musical examples woven directly into the text. Strict Counterpoint is the preliminary technical work for actual musical composition. At the time of original publication, Ebenezer Prout was Professor of Harmony and Composition at the Royal Academy...

Written by an active composer, performer and educator, Sonic Art: An Introduction to Electroacoustic Music Composition provides a clear and informative introduction to the compositional techniques behind electroacoustic music. It brings together theory, aesthetics, context and practical applications to allow students to start thinking...

Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Fifth Edition provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first, it offers students a clear guide to understanding the...

Just as computer software changed the face of performing and recording over the past decades, Apple's iPad tablet has the power to change how you produce music today. Author Mark Jenkins summarizes the iPad tablet's massive potential for music creation, explaining in detail how...

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...

Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise (1843) is a classic textbook by a master of the orchestra, which has not been available in English translation for over a century. This is a book by and about Berlioz, since it provides not only a new translation but also...

On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted film composers, cover everything from the nuts-and-bolts of timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's aesthetic vision with the needs of...

On the Track offers a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. Covering all styles and genres, the authors, both noted film composers, cover everything from the nuts-and-bolts of timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's aesthetic vision with the needs of...

A descriptive and historical introduction precedes Morley's classic work on the fundamentals of music theory and composition that was originally published in 1597.Author: Thomas MorleyISBN-10: 0393006824ISBN-13: 9780393006827Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1973Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.79d

In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. This historically informed practice is now supplanting the late Romantic view of improvised music as a rhapsodic endeavour--a...

Piano Lessons with Claudio Arrau provides an insider's view of the art of piano performance as exemplified by one of the great artists of the twentieth century. Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau devoted his life to the piano and its music. As a child prodigy,...

Music Outside the Lines is an informative and practical resource for all who are invested in making music composition an integral part of curriculum. Author Maud Hickey offers both a well-grounded justification for teaching music composition and also a compendium of useful instructional ideas...

Models for Beginners in Composition was one of Arnold Schoenberg's earliest attempts to reach a broad American audience through his pedagogical ideas. The novelty of MModels for Beginners in Composition lay in its streamlined approach-one basing all aspects of composition including motivic design, harmony,...

The first collection of its kind, Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis includes twenty-two selections by highly esteemed contemporary music theorists, sixteen of which were written especially for this volume. Featuring work by such luminaries as Charles Burkhart, Edward T. Cone, Allen Forte, David...

The Muse That Sings is a unique behind-the-scenes look at both twentieth-century music and the nuts and bolts of creative work. Here, twenty-five of America's leading composers--from Adams to Zorn, from Bolcom to Vierk--talk candidly about their craft, their motivations, their difficulties, and how...

Duke Ellington was one of jazz's greatest figures, a composer and bandleader of unparalleled importance and influence. But little attention has been given to his chief musical collaborator, Billy Strayhorn, who created hundreds of compositions and arrangements for his musical partner, and without whom...

Originally published in 1943, Models for Beginners in Composition represents one of Arnold Schoenberg's earliest attempts at reaching a broad American audience through his pedagogical ideas. The novelty of this book was its streamlined approach, basing all aspects of composition including motivic design, harmony,...