Composition

Originally published in the 1940s, Paul Hindemith's remakable textbooks are still the outstanding works of their kind. In contrast to many musical ...

by Alan Belkin This essential introduction to the art and craft of musical composition is designed to familiarize beginning composers with principl...

A classic that represents the culmination of over 40 years in Schoenberg's life devoted to the teaching of musical principles to students and compo...

Kent Kennan / Donald Grantham   Designed primarily as a text for beginning orchestration courses, but includes material for advanced study and may ...

This brilliant inquiry into tonal, textural, and rhythmic structures in music, filled with original formulations and provocative ideas, has become ...

"For its time the most comprehensive treatment of the subject." — New Grove Dictionary of Music and MusiciansBefore the 17th century, composers sel...

Excerpt from Contents BOOK I — COUNTERPOINT I. Introduction Preliminary Notions Concords which may be used in strict Counterpoint Discords to be em...

This new book builds on Whittall's Music since the First World War. It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of...

Winner of the Global Music Award Gold Medal for an exceptional book in the field of music · Winner of the National Indie Excellence Book Award · Wi...

by Harry Partch Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch’s life (1901-1974) and music embody most com...

Publisher: Backbeat Books Author: Billy Seidman An effective new songwriting vocabulary supported by ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC! The Elements of S...

“What most songwriting guides won’t tell you is that success as a songwriter – however you define it – is as much about how you live your life and ...

A COURSE OF COUNTERPOINT AND FUGUE, VOL. 2 By L. CherubiniContents EXAMPLES ON FUGUE WITH A PERPETUAL ANALYSIS 1. Strict Fugue in Two Parts 2. Ton...

Merton Shatzkin Comprehensive in scope, this text covers the basics as well as the refinements of writing for the symphony orchestra, the band, and...

A Composer's Insight, Volume 1 with a foreword by Michael Colgrass is the first in a five-volume series on major contemporary composers and their w...

I don’t claim to know how to teach anybody anything, let alone something so individual and subjective as writing songs. The truth is, dear readers...

A Linear Approach By Bill Dobbins Book & CD Many different possibilities for harmonizing the same melody are illustrated and analyzed, using te...

Notes Become Music: A Guidebook from the Viennese Piano Tradition addresses the many unwritten nuances of dynamics, articulation and agogics as an ...