Musical Composition

Musical composition is becoming a key discipline in music courses in both schools and universities, and many teachers consider it as important in the development of young musicians as playing and listening to music. Indeed, it can be argued that the study of composition is essential to all musicians, be they performers, musicologists, teachers, or critics, because through composition musicians achieve the deepest insight into the elements of music and the imagination of a composer.

- First takes the student through the basic 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.

- Devotes many chapters to composing with advanced and recent techniques including free diatonicism, bitonality and polytonality, atonality and twelve-note mic, and serialism and indeterminancy.

- Uses over 200 music examples to illustrate points in the text, and includes exercises for each chapter.

CONTENIDO:

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Composition: key to musicianship
2 First ideas
3 Formal principies
4 Melody
5 Harmony and counterpoint
6 Vocal writing
7 Accompaniments
8 The piece as a whole
9 Choral music
10 Technical expansions 1: (Free pentatonic music; Free diatonicism; The whole-tone scale; Bitonality and polytonality; Harmony in fourths)
11 Technical expansions 2: (Towards atonality; Atonality; Free chromaticism or free twelve-note music; Twelve-note harmony)
12 Serialism
13 Indeterminacy, graph scores, text scores, improvisation 14 Practical applications
Exercises
Index