Form and Method: Composing Music

The Rothschild Essays

By Roger Reynolds Edited by Stephen McAdams

Published January 30th 2007 by Routledge.

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Songwriting Success

How to Write Songs for Fun and (Maybe) Profit

By Michael Lydon

So you want to write songs? Join the club!

Everyone dreams of being a successful songwriter. In every city and town, down the block in every...

Published May 26th 2004 by Routledge.

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On the Track

A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring

By Fred Karlin, Rayburn Wright

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...

Published January 8th 2004 by Routledge.

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Composing for Voice

A Guide for Composers, Singers, and Teachers

By Paul Barker

Although there have been many texts on the art of singing, and others on composition, there are none on the unique challenges of composing for...

Published October 28th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint

By Thomas Benjamin

The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint is an introductory text to the analysis and composition of tonal counterpoint. Using examples from the music of J.S. Bach...

Published August 8th 2003 by Routledge.

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Musical Style and Genre

History and Modernity

By Marina Lobanova

This volume constitutes the first complete publication of Marina Lobanova's study - banned in Russia in 1979 as "too avant-garde" and published there only in...

Published June 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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Music Inside Out

Going Too Far in Musical Essays

By John Rahn, Benjamin Boretz

John Rahn's prolific activities as a composer-theorist-teacher, inventor of computer sound-synthesis software, editor of Perspectives of New Music during the 1980s and 90s, and author...

Published March 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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Tone Clock

By Peter Schat

In addition, The Tone Clock contains a broad selection of Peter Schat's polemical writings, embracing historical, political, aesthetic and environmental perspectives. His book is not...

Published January 1st 1993 by Routledge.

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Music and Text

A special issue of the journal Contemporary Music Review

Edited by Paul Driver, Rupert Christiansen

The composers, writers and musicologists who contributed to this issue embrace aesthetics as far apart as neo-romanticism and post-Darmstadt "complexity", whole-scale computerization and non-computerization and...

Published January 1st 1989 by Routledge.

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