The Schillinger System Of Musical Composition-volume One

by Joseph Schillinger

combined with instrumental inference

Genres: Music

1640 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

Reviews

[Eric]

Shelving for now as I've finished Book IV on melody. Need to go back and work through some of the techniques before moving on to harmony.

[Sean · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think a lot of the ways that Schillinger thinks about music is outdated. It makes sense considering when he lived. Basically it comes down to this semi-serialism type deal where he breaks some element of music down into a handful of distinct parts. Then labels them with numbers which you can implement as a form of vector in your music.

Not very practical for analysis, its a very specific way of writing music and its not even that good (at least for some chapters. Other chapters have potential though). But the underlying thinking is interesting