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Title: The Shaping Forces in Music by Ernst Toch ISBN: 0-486-23346-4 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for aspiring composers
Comment: A composer friend of mine recommended this book to me as a good introduction to composition. After reading it, I agree. Have you ever wondered why you can write something that obeys all the rules of classical music theory but has no life to it? Toch takes a good look at the practice of composition through the ages and abstracts a set of principles - the shaping forces in music - that give a composition structure and vitality. The things that I found really interesting about these principles were how universally they apply across all periods and styles of music, and how willing the 'classical' composers like Mozart and Beethoven were to break the rules of classical theory in pursuit of a larger goal.
If you have any interest in the principles of music composition, this is a great book. My only comment is that points illustrated by quotations (which is most of them) are not always clear unless you can play or 'hear' the music - easy for Mozart, not so easy for Brahms, Debussy etc. Having a piano handy would help with this. Another solution would be to read this book in a music library and listen to the relevant works as they come up - in fact I hope to do this sometime myself.
Overall highly recommended for students of music - it's a breath of fresh air after all the traditional dogma.
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Title: Study of Counterpoint by Johann Joseph Fux, Alfred Mann ISBN: 0393002772 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1965 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Study of Fugue by Alfred Mann ISBN: 0486254399 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 August, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Structural Functions of Harmony by Arnold Sch-Onberg, Arnold Schoenberg ISBN: 0393004783 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1969 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Musical Composition by Reginald Smith Brindle, Reginald Smith-Brindle ISBN: 0193171074 Publisher: Oxford University Press(UK) Pub. Date: October, 1986 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Structural Hearing : Tonal Coherence in Music by Felix Salzer ISBN: 0486222756 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1962 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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