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Music Composition

 

The creative workshop of  musical  ideas ... 

Evolving through inspiration, improvisation,  pre-composition into music notation

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    The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition Author: Michael Miller

    Product Description

       Write the songs that make the whole world sing. A step-by-step guide to writing music, this book shows musicians how to compose simple chord progressions and melodies, and leads them through more advanced compositional techniques and musical forms. 
       Designed for composers of all types of music, it includes instruction on composing stand-alone melodies, using different scales and modes, themes and variations, orchestration, and composing for film, theater, and videogames. 
       Includes a comprehensive glossary of musical terms, as well as an appendix of various computer-based composition tools -

    About the Author

       Michael Miller attended the prestigious Jazz Studies Program at the Indiana University School of Music. A former percussion instructor and working drummer, he is also an accomplished composer and arranger. He is the author of more than 30 books, including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Drums, Second Edition, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Music Theory, Second Edition, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Singing, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Solos and Improvisation.
     


     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

     
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    Composers New Pencil

    A new site made by composers for composers of any level or genre. On our site you will find information about software, books, scores,  schools, competitions and the music tools of today. Our blog features insightful articles, interviews, tips and reviews related to music composition. 
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    Composition Today

    Offers a huge range resources exclusively for composers  |  Articles Interviews Sound Bank Reviews Concert Listings  |  Competitions,  Jobs & Opps Workshops Composer Database C:T Shop Show Case Forums  | 

     
    Jeff Mallett's Songwriter Site

    Includes a list of songwriters on the web and other resources
     
     

    MusesMuse

    MusesMuse Homepage:  Songwriting Tips & Tools  |  Links Directory  over 5,000 links songwriting-related  | Muse's Muse Message Boards  |  The Songwriter's Store  |  Music Reviews | Message Board | Artist Spotlights | Web Ring  |  For Beginners | For ProsPress Releases | Featured Tool | Featured Book | Songwriter's Toolkit  |  Music Industry Q&A  |  Columnist Menu  |  Find Music-related Software @ SharewareMusicMachine   | 
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    Music for Ear Training - Author: Michael Horvit

    Product Description

       MUSIC FOR EAR TRAINING and its accompanying workbook and CD-ROM will help you improve your listening/ear-training skills as you notate the music in the workbook while listening to the CD. The dual-format CD-ROM provides an easy-to-use interface for listening with varied General MIDI instrumental sounds. The repertoire for dictation includes exercises on basic rudiments (intervals, chords, and scales), melodies, four-part harmonic settings, and varied textures from musical literature. 

    About the Author 

       Michael Horvit is Professor of Composition and Theory at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. His works range from solo instrumental and vocal pieces to large symphonic and choral compositions and operas, all widely performed in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Israel. He has published with C.F. Peters, MorningStar, Recital Publications, Shawnee Press, E.C. Schirmer, Southern, and Transcontinental, and has CDs with the Albany label. Horvit's awards include the Martha Baird Rockefeller Award as well as the National Endowment for the Arts.
     

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    Quotations   -   Music Composition

     
     

    Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret  -  J.S. Bach
     

    It is the duty of the composer to serve his fellow man, to beautify human life and point the way to a radiant future. Such is the immutable code of the artist as I see it 
     -  Sergei Prokofiev
     

    We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves
     -  Jim Morrison
     

    It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it 
     -  Orlando Gibbons
     

    The real authenticity we recognize is when the person is totally involved. If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole 
     -  Stephen Nachmanovitch
     

    Originality is the art of concealing your source
     

    The unconscious is the womb of all musical creation; all masterpieces are born there.
     

    A creative artist works on his next composition because he is not satisfied with his previous one. 
     

    When he loses a critical attitude towards his own work, he ceases to be an artist...

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    How can i grow as a music artist and succeed in the music business?

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    Music Composition:  Creative Directories

     
    @  I Write The Music
     
     
     
    Composition  Directory  01

     

    Composition Resources
     
     
  • Composers Directory
  • Composition Directory
  • Composition Resources
  • Songwriting Directory
  • Composition For Beginners
  • How To Write Music
  • Composition: Google Dir
  • Composition: Yahoo Dir
  • Composition Guides
  • Contemporary Classical
  • Comp Avant-garde
  • Computer-assisted comp
  • Composition Software
  • Music Theory
  • Composition Techniques
  • composition directories
  • Composition Books
  • Composition Tips
  • Improvisation
  • Composition Articles
  • CompMusicTutor
  • Songwriting Tips
  • Songwriting Articles
  • Partwriting
  • Soloman's Composition Page
  • composition indexes
  • composition tutorials
  • Melodic Composition
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    Composition  Directory  02

     

    Areas Of Music Study
     
     
  • Music Theory
  • Notation Theory
  • Rhythm Theory
  • Harmonic Theory
  • Chord Theory
  • Voiceleading
  • Musicianship
  • dynamics
  • Chord Progressions
  • Solfege
  • Scales
  • Notation Theory
  • Music Instruments
  • Orchestration
  • Ear Training
  • SightSinging
  • music terms
  • Rhythm Theory
  • Counterpoint
  • Musical Forms
  • Music Genres
  • music texture
  • Musical Forms
  • Music History
  • Elements of Music
  • texture in music
  • ornamentation
  • Arranging
  • Music Analysis
  • music structure

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    Composition  Directory  03

     

    The Learning Process

     
  • Music Education
  • Composer Mentors
  • Music Instruction
  • Music Schools
  • music ed: composition
  • Music Books
  • Music Directory
  • Composers Directory
  • comp newsgroups
  • Music Ed Software
  • Music Resources
  • Music Reference
  • composition newsletters
  • Comp For Beginners
  • Composition Techniques
  • Music Blogs
  • Articles Dir
  • Composer Forums
  • comp chats & forums
  • Composition: Google Dir
  • How To Write Music
  • Songwriting
  • Composition Directory
  • Improvisation
  • Writer's Block
  • Composition Guides
  • Composition Articles
  • Composition Resources
  • Building Virtuosity
  • Composer Profiles
  • Orchestral Manuscript
  • composition directories
  • How To Set Up A Score
  • composer biographies
  • Music Reference
  • composition textbooks
  • Composer Mentors
  • composition:encyclopedias
  • Composer Tools
  • composers essays
  • Creating Original Music
  • composition tutorials
  • composition concerts
  • comp schools of thought
  • Instrument Timbre
  • Avant-garde Composers
  • harmonic rhythm
  • Polytonality
  • Fractal Composition
  • MonoThematicism
  • understand polyphony
  • aleatory in music
  • unusal meters
  • performance practices
  • math & music
  • Comp Schools
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    Composition  Directory  04

     

    The  Art  Of  Creation
     
     
  • Creative Process
  • Improvisation
  • thematic development
  • motivic development
  • music chemistry
  • Inspiration
  • MonoThematicism
  • music aesthetics
  • use of silence
  • composition tools
  • unity & contrast
  • elelments of surprise
  • music structure
  • balance of time & space
  • consistent style
  • types of music comp
  • music invention
  • voices
  • dissonance in composition
  • elements of attraction
  • use of repetition
  • Creating Original Music
  • changing meter
  • texture in music
  • Elements of Music
  • rhythm
  • melodic shape
  • pitch
  • melodic pattern
  • melodic variation
  • harmony
  • harmoic rhythm
  • chord progressions
  • poetry
  • dynamics
  • melody
  • theme
  • motive
  • prose in music
  • simple forms
  • song form
  • musical forms
  • lyrics
  • originality of form
  • Instrument Timbre
  • articulations
  • ornamentation
  • Instrument Range Charts
  • variation techniques
  • Music Genres
  • cross rhythms
  • scales + modes
  • syncopation
  • ElementsMusicStyle
  • new ideas
  • classical improv
  • new tonality
  • clarity of texture
  • consonance
  • dissonance
  • unusal meters
  • modes
  • Partwriting
  • Composer Mentors
  • composition projects
  • Atonalty
  • Voiceleading
  • Polytonality
  • avant-garde genres
  • new-music genres
  • arrhythmic
  • composite music
  • rhythm without beat
  • polyphonic comp
  • density of texture
  • pointillism
  • Fractal Composition
  • Unusual Scoring
  • Avant-Garde Jazz
  • performance practices
  • aleatory in music
  • Numbers in Music
  • math & music
  • functional composition
  • future concepts
  • composition:standards
  • absolute music
  • performance art
  • serialism
  • avant-garde
  • music media
  • libretto in music
  • complex forms
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    Composition  Directory  05

     

    Elements Of Style  /  World Music Influences
     
     
  • rhythms of India
  • Music Genres
  • rhythms of Africa
  • Polytonality
  • signature style: comp
  • consistent style
  • Creating Original Music
  • new music genres
  • aleatory in music
  • jazz rhythms
  • world rhythms
  • rhythms of asia
  • composition concerts
  • composition idioms
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    Composition  Directory  06

     

    Creating Music For Instruments
     
     
  • Understanding String Instruments
  • Understanding Wind Instruments
  • Understanding Brass Instruments
  • composing for ensembles
  • Composing For Instruments
  • composing with keyboards
  • composing for piano
  • Synthesizers
  • Electronic Instruments
  • Understanding Percussion
  • composing for harpsichord
  • composing for church organ
  • composing for small orchestra
  • composing for large orchestra
  • composing for string quartet
  • Comp Instruments Page
  • composing for winds
  • composing for choir
  • composing for percussion
  • composing for strings
  • composing for brass
  • Music Instruments
  • composing a symphony
  • Music Instrument Index
  • composition: solo
  • composition: duo
  • composition: quintet
  • composition: sextet
  • composition: trio
  • composition: septet
  • Orchestral Manuscript
  • How To Set Up A Score
  • composition: quartet
  • composition: octet
  • Unusual Scoring of Instruments
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    Composition  Directory  07

     

    The Use Of Music Forms  /  Formal & Descriptive
     
     
  • Music Forms
  • simple forms
  • Binary Form
  • ternary form
  • rondo
  • sonata
  • sonatina
  • sonata-allegro form
  • canons
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  • short forms
  • rounds
  • Invention
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  • preludes
  • toccata
  • march
  • dance forms
  • waltz
  • ballad
  • lullaby
  • theatrical
  • music suites
  • theme & variations
  • texture in music
  • counterpoint
  • program Music
  • tone poem
  • ncidental
  • Program Music
  • ballet
  • Dance
  • serenade
  • divertimento
  • fantasy
  • elegy
  • overture
  • symphony
  • concerto
  • rhapsody
  • concerrto grosso
  • chant
  • motet
  • aleatory music
  • vocal music
  • song form
  • aria
  • opera
  • anthem
  • mass
  • requiem mass
  • oratorio
  • cantata
  • song cycle
  • Images
  • complex forms
  • chamber music
  • computer Music
  • serial music
  • Music Analysis
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    Composition  Directory  08

     

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