Music composition;: A manual for training the young composer

by George Thaddeus Jones

Contents The Teaching of Composition - 3 The Twelve Projects - 7 Review of Basic Compositional Techniques - 11 Melody Writing - 13 Small Forms Based Upon the Phrase - 23 Harmonizing the Melody - 27 Modulation - 35 Contrapuntal Texture - 39 The Tritone - 97 The Tritone in Multitone Scales - 101 Thematic Transformation - 105 Bitonality - 117 Rhythm and Meter - 123 Polymeter - 129 TwelveTone Row Writing - 135 Serial Technique in a Tonal Style - 149 Homophonic Texture - 43 Section III - 49 SevenTone Modal Scales - 51 Harmonic Content of Scales - 53 NineteenthCentury Tritone Sonorities - 59 Chart of Key Schemes Using SevenTone Scales Modes - 63 Charts of Selected Multitone Scales - 67 Simple Materials - 77 Fourth Chords - 79 Added Tones and Open Chords - 87 Multitone Scales - 91 Section V - 153 Harmonic Tension - 155 TwoPart Writing - 161 Form in an Extended Work - 165 General Organization and Tonality - 169 Planning an Original Composition - 177 Appendix - 183 Student Solutions of Projects - 185 Bibliography - 219 Index - 223 Copyright

223 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1963

Reviews

[Dsch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Their have been more useless books written on the subject than could be imagined, this book is different. The author presents things in practical, everyday working man's terms so that you can develop your craft. No endless theories, or stylistic axes to grind. The fact that this book went out of print while volumes of trash get reprinted every year via academia is nothing less than a tragedy. This book is about presenting possibilities but not necessarily explaining them, so you gotta have a handle on things.