Musical composition /
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| Author / Creator: | Brindle, Reginald Smith, 1917-2003 |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986. |
| Description: | viii, 188 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/845116 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Composition: key to musicianship
- 2. First ideas
- 3. Formal principles
- 4. Melody
- 5. Harmony and counterpoint
- 6. Vocal writing
- 7. Accompaniments
- 8. The piece as a whole
- 9. Choral music
- 10. Technical expansions: 1 (Free pentatonic music; Free diatonicism; The whole-tone scale; Bitonality and polytonality; Harmony in fourths)
- 11. Technical expansions: 2 (Towards atonality; Atonality; Free chromaticism or free twelve-note music; Twelve-note harmony)
- 12. Serialism
- 13. Indeterminacy, graph scores, text scores, improvisation
- 14. Practical applications
- Exercises
- Index