Musical Composition

ISBN-13: 9780193171077 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 188 str.

Reginald Smith Brindle

Opis

Musical composition is a key discipline in music programs in conservatories, colleges, and universities. Many teachers consider it as important in the development of young musicians as listening and performance. It can be argued that through compositions musicians achieve the deepest insight into the composer and his music. Musical Composition takes the student through the elements--melody, harmony, counterpoint, and rhythm--before covering a variety of special subjects such as writing vocal and choral music, accompaniments, and film and TV music. Chapters are devoted to recent techniques including free diatonicism, serialism, and indeterminacy. Over 200 examples illustrate points in the text and there are exercises for each chapter.

Recenzje

'a splendid book, unfailingly well-written, chock full of sound advice and practical help, a highly-concentrated 'course' of musical composition which every fledgling (and other, more established figures) would do well to read...No composer can finish this book without emerging a more finished artist than he was when he began it.' Music and Musicians