Download or read book The Act of Musical Composition written by Dave Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of musical composition has been marked by a didactic, technique-based approach, focusing on the understanding of musical language and grammar -harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and arrangement - or on generic and stylistic categories. In the field of the psychology of music, the study of musical composition, even in the twenty-first century, remains a poor cousin to the literature which relates to musical perception, music performance, musical preferences, musical memory and so on. Our understanding of the compositional process has, in the main, been informed by anecdotal after-the-event accounts or post hoc analyses of composition. The Act of Musical Composition: Studies in the Creative Process presents the first coherent exploration around this unique aspect of human creative activity. The central threads, or key themes - compositional process, creative thinking and problem-solving - are integrated by the combination of theoretical understandings of creativity with innovative empirical work.
Download or read book The Act of Musical Composition written by Dave Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of musical composition has been marked by a didactic, technique-based approach, focusing on the understanding of musical language and grammar -harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and arrangement - or on generic and stylistic categories. In the field of the psychology of music, the study of musical composition, even in the twenty-first century, remains a poor cousin to the literature which relates to musical perception, music performance, musical preferences, musical memory and so on. Our understanding of the compositional process has, in the main, been informed by anecdotal after-the-event accounts or post hoc analyses of composition. The Act of Musical Composition: Studies in the Creative Process presents the first coherent exploration around this unique aspect of human creative activity. The central threads, or key themes - compositional process, creative thinking and problem-solving - are integrated by the combination of theoretical understandings of creativity with innovative empirical work.
Download or read book Musical Composition written by Ellis B. Kohs and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1995-05-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of projects designed to help student composers achieve technical mastery and artistic growth. For each chapter the author provides suggested exercises paralleling the text and musical illustrations. Teachers may use this book as a classroom text; students may use it independently.
Download or read book Composers at Work written by Jessie Ann Owens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Renaissance composers write their music? In this revolutionary look at a subject that has fascinated scholars for years, musicologist Jessie Ann Owens offers new and striking evidence that contrary to accepted theory, sixteenth-century composers did not use scores to compose--even to write complex vocal polyphony. Drawing on sources that include contemporary theoretical treatises, documents and letters, iconographical evidence, actual fragments of composing slates, and numerous sketches, drafts, and corrected autograph manuscripts, Owens carefully reconstructs the step-by-step process by which composers between 1450 and 1600 composed their music. The manuscript evidence--autographs of more than thirty composers--shows the stages of work on a wide variety of music--instrumental and vocal, sacred and secular--from across most of Renaissance Europe. Her research demonstrates that instead of working in full score, Renaissance composers fashioned the music in parts, often working with brief segments, according to a linear conception. The importance of this discovery on editorial interpretation and on performance cannot be overstated. The book opens with a broad picture of what has been known about Renaissance composition. From there, Owens examines the teaching of composition and the ways in which musicians and composers both read and wrote music. She also considers evidence for composition that occurred independent of writing, such as composing "in the mind" or composing with instruments. In chapters on the manuscript evidence, she establishes a typology both of the sources themselves and of their contents (sketches, drafts, fair copies). She concludes with case studies detailing the working methods of Francesco Corteccia, Henricus Isaac, Cipriano de Rore, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. This book will change the way we analyze and understand early music. Clear, provocative, and painstakingly researched, Composers at Work: The Craft of Musical Composition 1450-1600 makes essential reading for scholars of Renaissance music as well as those working in related fields such as sketch studies and music theory.
Download or read book The Craft of Musical Composition written by Paul Hindemith and published by Schott Music. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in the 1940s, Paul Hindemith's remarkable textbooks are still the outstanding works of their kind. In contrast to many musical textbooks written by academic musicians, these were produced by a man who could play every instrument of the orchestra, could compose a satisfying piece for almost every kind of ensemble, and who was one of the most stimulating teachers of his day. It is therefore not surprising that many years later these books should remain essential reading for the student and the professional musician.
Download or read book Theory of Musical Composition written by Gottfried Weber and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musical Composition written by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theory of Musical Composition written by Gottfried Weber and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Musical Composition written by Alan Belkin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Theory and Practice of Musical Composition written by Adolf Bernhard Marx and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theory of Musical Composition written by Gottfried Weber and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book The Larger Forms of Musical Composition written by Percy Goetschius and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fundamentals of Musical Composition written by Arnold Schoenberg and published by Gardners Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentals of Musical Composition represents the culmination of more than forty years in Schoenberg's life devoted to the teaching of musical principles to students and composers in Europe and America. For his classes he developed a manner of presentation in which 'every technical matter is discussed in a very fundamental way, so that at the same time it is both simple and thorough'. This book can be used for analysis as well as for composition. On the one hand, it has the practical objective of introducing students to the process of composing in a systematic way, from the smallest to the largest forms; on the other hand, the author analyses in thorough detail and with numerous illustrations those particular sections in the works of the masters which relate to the compositional problem under discussion.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Musical Composition written by Arnold Schoenberg and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goodrich s Analytical Harmony written by A. J. Goodrich and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the PREFACE. THE advantages accruing from a knowledge of Harmony are not sufficiently understood, except by those who are ambitious to compose. Every singer, performer, teacher, and critic is benefited in knowing the principles of chord succession, harmonization, etc. Pianists who possess this information have an immense advantage in the knowledge that modulatory tones, suspensions and appoggiaturas are accented; that dissonances are to be connected with the consonances to which they resolve; that passing tones are unaccented; that anticipations are slightly marked, and that different kinds of cadences require different kinds of punctuation. As an aid to sight-reading (that most necessary accomplishment) a knowledge of Harmony is indispensable, for it enables one to anticipate a considerable portion of music by being familiar with the notation, resolution and progression of chords in general. Our present system of music has been gradually evolved during centuries of artistic and scientific progress. Some of the world's greatest geniuses laid the foundation, built up the structure and added the ornamentation. The theorist has, therefore, but little to do beyond that of presenting the material of composition and showing how this has been employed. Certain principles and theories may be deduced from the music of a Beethoven, and these are to be systemized and explained. But while the creative impulse in music continues to manifest itself it must be unfettered by arbitrary rules and prohibitions. Recent composers, in their use of harmony, have gone far beyond the formulas and precepts of textbooks. It is no longer possible, according to existing systems of theory, or of acoustics, to explain the harmonic structure of such works as Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre, Grieg's Norwegian Dances, Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini, or the later music-dramas of Wagner. These creators of music followed a higher law than didactic theorem, and the theorist should act only intermediately, explaining to the student the artistic phenomena of cause and effect. During the past twenty-four years since this system was commenced the author has confined himself principally to this task: 1. To present the material and technic of composition in systematic and graded order. 2. To explain this analytically and clearly. 3. To illustrate the application of this material in the construction of music. 4. To show the esthetic effect (and, consequently, the object) of certain chords and progressions. These are the main features of the present system, which is based upon the actual results of composition rather than upon existing theoretical works; and whatever merits this book may possess are thus ascribed to the influence of Scarlatti, Couperin, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Rubinstein, Dvorak, Gounod, Saint-Saens, Jensen, Lassen, Goldmark, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, and Mascagni, not to Zarlino, Rameau, Kirnberger, Gottfried Weber, Marx, Weitzmann, Richter, nor Riemann.
Download or read book The Theory of Musical Composition written by Gottfried Weber and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition written by Percy Goetschius and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 1898 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
