Musical Composition

Name: Musical Composition
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ISBN: 9780193171077

ISBN-10: 0193171074

ISBN-13: 9780193171077

Edition: 1986

Authors: Reginald Smith Brindle

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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…

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List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/6/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Composition: key to musicianship



First ideas



Formal principles



Melody



Harmony and counterpoint



Vocal writing



Accompaniments



The piece as a whole



Choral music



Technical expansions: 1 (Free pentatonic music; Free diatonicism; The whole-tone scale; Bitonality and polytonality; Harmony in fourths)



Technical expansions: 2 (Towards atonality; Atonality; Free chromaticism or free twelve-note music; Twelve-note harmony)



Serialism



Indeterminacy, graph scores, text scores, improvisation



Practical applications


Exercises


Index