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Music Composition Books
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Fundamentals of Musical Composition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 351 ratings — published 1967
The Study of Counterpoint (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as music-composition)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,156 ratings — published 1965
Music Composition For Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-composition)
avg rating 3.87 — 149 ratings — published 2008
Family-First Composer: Proven Path to Escape 9–5 and Support Your Family Composing Music for Film, TV, & Video Games (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as music-composition)
avg rating 4.68 — 41 ratings — published
Musical Composition: Craft and Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-composition)
avg rating 4.27 — 99 ratings — published 2018
Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation (Faber Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as music-composition)
avg rating 4.85 — 157 ratings — published 2011
Twentieth-Century Harmony (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as music-composition)
avg rating 4.37 — 348 ratings — published 1961
Musical Composition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-composition)
avg rating 4.09 — 45 ratings — published
Textures and Timbres: An Orchestrator’s Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-composition)
avg rating 4.30 — 20 ratings — published 2009
The Study of Orchestration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as music-composition)
avg rating 4.37 — 685 ratings — published 2002
Techniques of the Contemporary Composer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-composition)
avg rating 4.19 — 37 ratings — published 1997
Microsound (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.28 — 166 ratings — published 2002
Structural Functions of Harmony (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.14 — 168 ratings — published 1954
Jean-Phillipe Rameau Treatise On Harmony (Dover Books on Music) by Various (13-Nov-1997) Paperback
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
A Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration: To Which Is Appended the Chef d'Orchestre (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2015
Instrumentation and Orchestration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.08 — 83 ratings — published 1980
Principles of Orchestration (Dover Books On Music: Analysis)
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avg rating 4.29 — 447 ratings — published 1822
Alfred's Basic Piano Course: Lesson Book - Level 3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.07 — 96 ratings — published 1982
MUSICAL ABACUS - Structured Theory of Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2009
The Fundamentals of Music Composition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published
The Do-Re-Mi of Singing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
The Symphony (2nd Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 3.90 — 10 ratings — published 1979
Music Composition for Film and Television – Learn Film Scoring Techniques | Berklee Guide for Composers and Filmmakers | Insights from Award-Winning ... Schifrin (Music Composition: Film Scoring)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 3.81 — 31 ratings — published 2011
Complete Guide to Film Scoring: The Art and Business of Writing Music for Movies and TV (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.09 — 216 ratings — published 2000
The Game Music Handbook: A Practical Guide to Crafting an Unforgettable Musical Soundscape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.09 — 206 ratings — published 2016
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,449 ratings — published 2017
The Complete Guide to Game Audio: For Composers, Musicians, Sound Designers, and Game Developers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 3.80 — 46 ratings — published 2001
Minds on Music: Composition for Creative and Critical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.27 — 11 ratings — published 2009
Music Theory and Composition: A Practical Approach (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published
Theory of Harmony (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.30 — 642 ratings — published 1911
The Art of Mixing: A Visual Guide to Recording, Engineering, and Production (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.31 — 300 ratings — published 1997
Counterpoint (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.00 — 78 ratings — published 1947
Modulation (Dover Books On Music: Analysis)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.00 — 50 ratings — published 2007
Composing with Constraints: 100 Practical Exercises in Music Composition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published
Six Steps to Songwriting Success: The Comprehensive Guide to Writing and Marketing Hit Songs (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 3.93 — 191 ratings — published 1999
How To Write Hit Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.06 — 35 ratings — published 1989
Essential Dictionary of Orchestration: The Most Practical and Comprehensive Resource for Composers, Arrangers and Orchestrators (Essential Dictionary Series)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.09 — 23 ratings — published 1998
Musical Creativity: Strategies and Tools in Composition and Improvisation (Computational Music Science)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2011
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,554 ratings — published 2009
Bruckner, Mahler, Schoenberg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.21 — 14 ratings — published 1947
Die Chorfuge im strengen Satz (Musikpädagogische Bibliothek,#34)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music (Norton Library)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 1973
Voice Leading: The Science behind a Musical Art (The MIT Press)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.57 — 37 ratings — published
Creative Orchestration: A Project Method For Classes In Orchestration And Instrumentation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.57 — 14 ratings — published
Analyzing Classical Form: An Approach for the Classroom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.61 — 31 ratings — published 2013
Modal Counterpoint: Renaissance Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 3.87 — 23 ratings — published 1999
Form in Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.05 — 20 ratings — published
Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.22 — 83 ratings — published 1998
The Path to the New Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-composition)
avg rating 4.25 — 48 ratings — published 1960
“2:30: Guitar practice. She was working on a piece of her own composition, something with lots of notes that was about the sky and birds. She sang along with half-formed words she hadn't quite figured out the meaning of yet, and apologized to the nameless medieval composer whose original piece she had stolen bits from.”
― What Once Was Mine
― What Once Was Mine
“Once music is
detached from function, once it becomes a repertory art, it
explicitly strives to define itself, out of itself, to become "mathemat-
ical"—that is to say,
to begin from premises and proceed to
conclusions by interpreting its own universe, finding
its own
laws. Systems of harmony and counterpoint become tools for
elaborate musical explorations. A great deal of Western music
is as much a manifestation of idealism as is mathematics.”
― Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics
detached from function, once it becomes a repertory art, it
explicitly strives to define itself, out of itself, to become "mathemat-
ical"—that is to say,
to begin from premises and proceed to
conclusions by interpreting its own universe, finding
its own
laws. Systems of harmony and counterpoint become tools for
elaborate musical explorations. A great deal of Western music
is as much a manifestation of idealism as is mathematics.”
― Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics
