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Composition Books
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 325,426 ratings — published 2002
Framed Ink (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,099 ratings — published 2010
Fundamentals of Musical Composition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 360 ratings — published 1967
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 88,069 ratings — published 1918
The Study of Orchestration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 693 ratings — published 2002
The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 6,136 ratings — published 2007
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 6,477 ratings — published 2006
Musical Composition: Craft and Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 99 ratings — published 2018
Twentieth-Century Harmony (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 352 ratings — published 1961
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 13,455 ratings — published 1994
The Study of Counterpoint (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,165 ratings — published 1965
Schizo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 4,330 ratings — published 2014
Picture This: How Pictures Work (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,012 ratings — published 1991
Theory of Harmony (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 645 ratings — published 1911
Toward a Composition Made Whole (Composition, Literacy, and Culture, 163)
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avg rating 4.33 — 81 ratings — published 2011
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 3,387 ratings — published 2011
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 21,834 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 — 12,086 ratings — published 2006
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 113,796 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 — 1,272 ratings — published 1989
Principles of Orchestration (Dover Books On Music: Analysis)
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avg rating 4.30 — 457 ratings — published 1822
Framed Ink 2: Frame Format, Energy, and Composition for Visual Storytellers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.64 — 94 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 — 163 ratings — published 2011
The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
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avg rating 4.23 — 394,023 ratings — published 2013
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,025 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 — 85 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 — 9,355 ratings — published 2014
The Monkey's Paw (Library Binding)
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avg rating 3.84 — 19,004 ratings — published 1902
Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 451 ratings — published 2007
A Composer's Guide to Game Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 179 ratings — published 2014
The Norton Book of Composition Studies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 137 ratings — published 2009
Pictorial Composition (Composition in Art)
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avg rating 3.92 — 150 ratings — published 1967
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 16,056 ratings — published 2007
The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 539 ratings — published 2001
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 118,690 ratings — published 1886
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 122,957 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 3.53 — 100 ratings — published 1996
A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 185 ratings — published 1987
Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition (Composition, Literacy, and Culture, 163)
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avg rating 3.51 — 41 ratings — published 1992
WRITING WITHOUT TEACHERS (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 653 ratings — published 1973
Stilistik & stilanalys (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published
Artists' Master Series: Composition & Narrative (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 47 ratings — published
“Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.”
― Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda
― Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda
“Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.”
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