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Title: Musical Composition by Reginald Smith Brindle ISBN: 0-19-317107-4 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: great read and methodology for novice to advanced composers
Comment: I highly recommend this wonderful book. I have used it myself to teach beginning composition lessons, and used it as a reference many times for advanced analysis and composition. It's a real down-to-earth read that can be absorbed quickly while retaining many great composition "rules of thumb". Only a moderate understanding of music theory is needed to grasp concepts within the book. Great exercises in the back of the book.
Rating: 2
Summary: On Brindle
Comment: This book is thorough, however it assumes too much familiarity with the classical repertoire like so many other books on music composition. To utilize this book you would have had to a)perform what seems like nearly all of the classical repertoire when you were in high school and recognize the music by name, b)starting on your masters degree in music or c) be capable of performing all of the examples on sight and want to. This book is not very accessible and is only for experienced classical composers with an emphasis on the 20th centery. Too hoity toity for me. I can't recommend this book to anyone except seasoned classical afficianado's.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excelent book for composers
Comment: This book covers almost every aspect that the composers are looking for. It is a book for composers indeed! It's a book of sound roules. Examine the techniques of the 20th century showing exactly how it will sound the work and how the parts will interact as a form.
Mr Brindle is a composer and that's why composers will welcome this book. It talk in the same idiom that composers want. It gives the harmonic and composition techniques but it shows the pourpose of it. The roules that he shows are taked from his own impresions and analisis,not from other books of theorics writers.
The contemporary techniques(Free pentatonic music,pandiatonicism,impresionism,polytonality, tonal contradiction,interval harmony etc.etc.) are stated very cleverly.
It has,also,a chapter devoted to choir writting that explain,as I have never seen before,this technique,and is so good that you think that the choir writting is easy after that.
I'm a composer,and I'm always seeking for good boks on the subyect of composition. This one will belong on my library forever.
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Title: Composing Music: A New Approach by William Russo, Jeffrey Ainis, David Stevenson ISBN: 0226732169 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1988 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Hearing and Writing Music: Professional Training for Today's Musician (2nd Edition) by Ron Gorow ISBN: 0962949671 Publisher: September Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Study of Counterpoint by J.J. Fux ISBN: 0393002772 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1965 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Simple Composition by Charles Wuorinen ISBN: 0938856065 Publisher: C F Peters Corp Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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Title: The Shaping Forces in Music: An Inquiry into the Nature of Harmony, Melody, Counterpoint, Form (The Dover Series of Study Editions, Chamber Music, Orchestral Works, operas In Full Score) by Ernst Toch ISBN: 0486233464 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1977 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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