Composition

As the movie and music industries have changed, film scoring has become an overwhelmingly independent process. Film composers have more responsibilities than ever before, and they must fulfill them with smaller budgets and shorter schedules. As a result,...

This book is intended to introduce concepts about music composition to band and orchestra students of all ages and engage them in actual creative composing projects. The National Core Arts Standards (2014) emphasize that students should be engaged in the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622773442Author Alice ParkerPage Count 216Imprint GIA PublicationsPublisher GIA Publications

Experiencing Music Composition in Grades K-2 is designed to help teachers and students create original music through materials and activities that are enticing and accessible. The text offers an innovative approach to composition teaching and learning to...

This book is intended to introduce concepts about music composition to band and orchestra students of all ages and engage them in actual creative composing projects. The National Core Arts Standards (2014) emphasize that students should be engaged in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781458405302Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 56Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793557158Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard...

Composing Our Future is the ideal book for music teacher-educators seeking to learn more about composition education. While much has been written on the value of composition, both pre-service and practicing teachers still report a degree of trepidation...

Interactive Composition empowers readers with all of the practical skills and insights needed to compose and perform electronic popular music in a variety of popular styles. This book focuses on the implementation of compositional and production concepts...

Composing Our Future is the ideal book for music teacher-educators seeking to learn more about composition education. While much has been written on the value of composition, both pre-service and practicing teachers still report a degree of trepidation...

Creating Sounds from Scratch is a practical, in-depth resource on the most common forms of music synthesis. It includes historical context, an overview of concepts in sound and hearing, and practical training examples to help sound designers and...

Early in his career, the composer Arnold Schoenberg maintained correspondence with many notable figures: Gustav Mahler, Heinrich Schenker, Guido Adler, Arnold Rose, Richard Strauss, Alexander Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, to name a few. In this volume...

Overturning the inherited belief that popular music is unrefined, Form as Harmony in Rock Music brings the process-based approach of classical theorists to popular music scholarship. Author Drew Nobile offers the first comprehensive theory of form for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495002120Author John ThompsonPage Count 32Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has held musical audiences captive for close to two centuries. Few other musical works hold such a prominent place in the collective imagination; each generation rediscovers the work for itself and makes it its own. Honing in...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495011818Author Brent VaartstraPage Count 66Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Creative and Critical Projects in Classroom Music is both a celebration and extension of John Paynter and Peter Aston's groundbreaking work on creative classroom music, Sound and Silence, first published in 1970.Building on the central themes of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781973638841Author Carlos BrizzolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint WestBow PressPublisher WestBow PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 210mm *...

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The Mind's Ear offers a unique approach to stimulating the musical imagination and inspiring creativity, as well as providing detailed exercises aimed at improving the ability to read and imagine music in silence, in the "mind's ear." Modelling his...

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...

A practical guide for readers of all levels of programming ability, Max/MSP/Jitter for Music teaches all of the necessary skills for writing custom software for musical interaction using the programming language Max/MSP/Jitter. In step-by-step...

Music examples and charts illustrate the analyses, and each essay is fully annotated by the editor. in some cases, the results of the original research by the editor or by others working in the field are published here for the first time. Much of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793553938Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 96Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

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The first full-length biographical study of Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994). The British-born Irish composer (Dame) Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) is best known today for her cycle of thirteen string quartets, composed over five decades. And yet, her...

This is the first book-length survey of 20th -century British music for solo organ. Beginning with a discussion of British organ music in the last decades of the Victorian era, the book focuses on the pieces that the composers wrote, their musical style,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101873496Author Nate ChinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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...

This book breaks new ground in drawing on evolutionary psychology in support of advocacy for music education, and the presentation of innovative musical pedagogy. The book adopts the perspective that musical experience is the birthright of all human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939686688Author Mark MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint University Professors PressPublisher University Professors PressWeight(grams)...

This introductory text for students covers all the most important aspects of serial composition, including full discussion of such topics as melody writing, twelve-note harmony, polyphonic writing, forms, stylistic factors, avant-garde techniques, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495073168Author Hans ZimmerPage Count 22Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory addresses one of the broadest and most elusive open topics in music history: the transition from the Renaissance modes to the major and minor keys of the high Baroque. The system Glarean proposed in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393097672Author Edward T. ConeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 119gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913397173Author Tommy SwindaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Thomas William SwainPublisher Thomas William SwainWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...