ComposerTools.com - Welcome Composing Music: Jeffrey Ainis : 9780226732169: Amazon.com: Books Cranbrook Composers' Workshop The Language of Music (Clarendon Paperbacks): Amazon.co.uk: Deryck Cooke: Books Deryck Cooke The Language of Music Oxford University Press, Paperback, [1989].8vo. xiv+289 pp. First published in hardback, 1959.First published in paperback, 1963Reissued in paperback, 1989.8th printing per number line. Contents* Preface 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Index of SubjectsIndex of Names and WorksIndex of Music Examples *The sections of the chapters are not listed in the book's table of contents. If music, especially but not only classical music, has the ability to move you profoundly, you absolutely must read this book. Deryck sets out to prove his case in the most objective manner possible. Much of the book is of course severely technical. To give but a very superficial example, have you ever tried to sing "Crucifixus" on the music of Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus? "The thoughts which are expressed to me by a piece of music which I love are not too indefinite to be put into words, but on the contrary too definite." The study has numerous limitations, all of them readily acknowledged.
Cranbrook Composers / FrontPage Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music: Royal S. Brown: 9780520085442: Amazon.com Music Composition Studio The process of learning music composition can include various educational forms. You can choose lessons, private or online, you can participate in a variety of courses, also local or online, and you can choose to participate in any number of academic programs. Music Composition Lessons If you are interested in private music composition lessons, I suggest you seek and find a local composer. You can also have a few online lessons with me, just to get you started, and thereafter, I can help you find an appropriate teacher in your area. Where can you find a local composer willing to give you lessons? I'd suggest checking the local orchestra(s) and the local universities. Just give them a call and find out if they have a composer-in-residence. If you are seeking assistance in notating songs, I invite you to purchase my eBook: Learn How to Write YOUR Songs Down. Music Composition Courses Again, you can choose between online and private classes. Online Music Composition Courses
Poetics Of Music In The Form Of Six Less, Igor Stravinsky POETICS OF MUSIC by IGOR STRAVINSKY o IN THE FORM OF SIX LESSONS TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR KNODEL AND INGOLF DAHL HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS - CAMBRIDGE - 1947 CONTENTS Preface by DARIUS MILHAUD 1. Getting Acquainted 1 2. The Phenomenon of Music .... 21 3. The Composition of Music 45 4. Orchestra 60x60 60x60 is a project containing 60 works each 60 seconds in length presented continuously in an hour performance synchronized with an analog clock. The 60x60 mission is to present an audible slice of what is happening in the contemporary music scene by representing 60 works that are diverse in aesthetic and style. Since 2003, the music of more than 1200 contemporary composers has been featured on the Electroacoustic 60x60 project. History In 2003, Robert Voisey and Vox Novus produced the first 60x60 concert in New York City. Supporting the original mission of 60x60 to bring an audible panorama of the current musical landscape to audiences, Vox Novus is expanding their breadth by bringing the original 60x60 project to symphony halls. For more information, contact Robert Voisey
Top 5 Orchestration Books - Composer Focus Orchestration is a fundamental tool for all types of composers. Great orchestration books are few and far between so we’ve roundup the 5 best to get you on your way. The Study of Orchestration – Samuel Adler This work enables students to understand the basics of orchestrations by choosing the most appropriate instruments, instrumental combinations and instrumental techniques to write an effective orchestral score. It deals with orchestral writing for individual instruments, combinations of instruments, and full orchestra. - Available on Amazon Principles of Orchestration – N.Rimsky-Korsakov Rimsky-Korsakov, the great classical orchestrator, provides fundamentals of tonal resonance, progression of parts, voice and orchestra, tutti effects, and much more. Instrumentation and Orchestration – Alfred Blatter An accessible and complete introduction to writing and scoring music for each instrument of the orchestra. Orchestration – W Piston Essential Dictionary of Orchestration – T Gerou
American Composers Forum | In the key of now™ Extended Techniques for Cello by Craig Hultgren When Plato waxed poetically about the "music of the spheres," he thought that there were mathematical relationships between the earth, the sun, the moon, and the planets which resembled the properties of a vibrating mass such as a tightened string or a tubular column of air. The ancient Greeks believed that there were astronomical ratios between earth and the heavenly bodies which were the same as the acoustic nature of a vibrating string. The source of their theory, the mathematical division of a string length, still provides one of the great timbral characteristics of stringed instruments - their ability to sound harmonics. As an acoustic phenomenon, harmonics exist at points along the length of a stretched string. Dividing the open string into its harmonic overtones produces what are known as natural harmonics. Overtones also exist above any point on a string stopped by a finger. The history of notating harmonics is rather interesting.