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The Fundamentals of Music Composition
Teach Yourself to Compose Music! Learning music theory and writing sheet music will allow you to better hone your skills as a singer and a composer. This guide offers both beginners and more advanced singers and songwriters the skills and information to learn how to read, write and compose music. Start delving deeper into music theory today, because this is the ultimate guide to use when learning how to create music. Get it now. Discover all the Elements of Music Composition * How to read and write music notation * Ear training * How to read any composition in 4 simple steps * Note transposing * 7 steps to creating your own arrangement * Where to find the technology and other resources to he...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition
Write the songs that make the whole world sing. A step-by-step guide to writing music, this book shows musicians how to compose simple chord progressions and melodies, and leads them through more advanced compositional techniques and musical forms. Designed for composers of all types of music, it includes instruction on composing stand-alone melodies, using different scales and modes, themes and variations, orchestration, and composing for film, theater, and videogames. -Perfect complement to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Songwriting -Includes a comprehensive glossary of musical terms, as well as an appendix of various computer-based composition tools -Easy-to-use oversize trim
Music Composition For Dummies
Want to turn that haunting tune in your head into an awesome sound in your ear? You can! Music Composition For Dummies demystifies the process of composing music and writing songs. It guides you through every step of writing your own music, from choosing the right rhythm and tempo to creating melodies and chord progressions and working with instruments and voices. In this fun and practical guide, you’ll learn how to match keys and chords to the mood you want to convey, work a form without limiting your creativity, and hammer out a musical idea, even when your mind is drawing a blank. You’ll find out how to create popular songs, classically structured pieces, and even film, TV, and video ...
Minds on Music
This book offers both a rationale for the presence of composition in the music education program and a thorough review of what we know of children's compositional practices to date.
Composing Music
Aimed at those who have some knowledge of music but not formal training in composition, this concise introduction to composing starts right in with a brief composition exercise, then proceeds step by step through a series of increasingly complex and challenging problems, gradually expanding the student's musical grammar."This is a wonderful book for anyone who is developing improvising skills or who would like a fun way to explore music."-Jim Stockford, Co-Evolution Quarterly
Composing with Constraints
Composing with Constraints provides an innovative approach to the instruction of the craft of music composition based on tailored exercises to help students develop their creativity. The 100 exercises that are included contain a unique set of guidelines and constraints intended to place the student in a specific compositional framework. By using the methodologies in this book, students will be able to create their own outlines for their compositions, making intelligent and educated compositional choices that balance reasoning with intuition.
The Elements of Music Composition
2nd EDITION: NOVEMBER 2019 For Composers Who Want to Compose Effective Music The Elements of Music Composition gives composers the missing puzzle piece that makes it possible to create musical works that endure and become richer and more meaningful with each performance. Composers learn to create a composition that grows out of a single seed and connects the different disciplines within music composition. Applying the concepts in this book will help composers create highly effective works that resonate with audiences. The education of a composer typically includes instruction in subject areas that are designed to teach composers about the methods that composers of the past used to create ori...
Musical Composition
An invaluable introduction to the art and craft of musical composition from a distinguished teacher and composer This essential introduction to the art and craft of musical composition is designed to familiarize beginning composers with principles and techniques applicable to a broad range of musical styles, from concert pieces to film scores and video game music. The first of its kind to utilize a style-neutral approach, in addition to presenting the commonly known classical forms, this book offers invaluable general guidance on developing and connecting musical ideas, building to a climax, and other fundamental formal principles. It is designed for both classroom use and independent study.
Form and Method
This book puts the reader as close as anyone is likely to get to the mind of a practising composer. Reynolds, probably the most adventurous winner of the coveted Pulitzer Prize, works out each piece in a surprisingly detailed way that is never the same from one project to the next. Here he reveals to us what he is doing and why, through an on-going narrative which he interplays with illustrations and a wealth of musical examples, including some of his own working sketches which are fascinating in their own right. Although he is direct, practical, and explicit, Reynolds rejects a doctrinaire approach: he weaves a thread of his philosophical musings throughout his book, showing his wider views...
Musical Composition
Students of composition who wish to acquire a comprehensive eclectic technique should find this book useful, particularly when read in conjunction with a systematic study of music literature.
