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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 329,073 ratings — published 2000
Framed Ink (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,153 ratings — published 2010
Fundamentals of Musical Composition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 366 ratings — published 1967
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 88,509 ratings — published 1918
The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 6,156 ratings — published 2007
The Study of Orchestration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 696 ratings — published 2002
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 6,521 ratings — published 2006
Musical Composition: Craft and Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 102 ratings — published 2018
Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 355 ratings — published 1961
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 13,709 ratings — published 1994
The Study of Counterpoint (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,168 ratings — published 1965
Schizo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 4,346 ratings — published 2014
Picture This: How Pictures Work (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,195 ratings — published 1991
Theory of Harmony (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 649 ratings — published 1911
Toward a Composition Made Whole (Composition, Literacy, and Culture, 163)
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avg rating 4.34 — 80 ratings — published 2011
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.48 — 3,398 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 539 ratings — published 2001
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 22,033 ratings — published 1973
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 12,195 ratings — published 2006
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 115,668 ratings — published 1994
Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Underprepared (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,275 ratings — published 1989
Principles of Orchestration (Dover Books On Music: Analysis)
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avg rating 4.30 — 460 ratings — published 1822
Framed Ink 2: Frame Format, Energy, and Composition for Visual Storytellers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.65 — 97 ratings — published 2021
Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 419 ratings — published 1991
Strengthen Your Paintings With Dynamic Composition (Elements of Painting)
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avg rating 4.09 — 23 ratings — published 1994
Techniques of the Contemporary Composer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 38 ratings — published 1997
Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation (Faber Edition)
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avg rating 4.86 — 166 ratings — published 2011
The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 418,748 ratings — published 2013
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,112 ratings — published 2005
Composing Music: A New Approach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 65 ratings — published 1983
Instrumentation and Orchestration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 86 ratings — published 1980
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 9,417 ratings — published 2014
The Monkey's Paw (Library Binding)
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avg rating 3.83 — 19,555 ratings — published 1902
Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 456 ratings — published 2007
A Composer's Guide to Game Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 182 ratings — published 2014
The Norton Book of Composition Studies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 135 ratings — published 2009
Pictorial Composition (Composition in Art)
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avg rating 3.93 — 152 ratings — published 1967
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 16,203 ratings — published 2007
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 121,281 ratings — published 1886
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 126,775 ratings — published 2002
Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing (Oxford University Press Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 131 ratings — published 1977
Composition In The University: Historical and Polemical Essays (Composition, Literacy, and Culture, 163)
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avg rating 3.94 — 53 ratings — published 1998
The Study of Fugue (Dover Books On Music: Analysis)
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avg rating 4.10 — 91 ratings — published 1966
New Musical Resources (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 52 ratings — published 1930
A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 101 ratings — published 1996
A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 187 ratings — published 1987
Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition (Composition, Literacy, and Culture, 163)
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avg rating 3.50 — 40 ratings — published 1992
Writing without Teachers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 659 ratings — published 1973
Stilistik & stilanalys (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 4,956 ratings — published 2025
“I love music passionately. And because I love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.”
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“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”
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