Music Composition:

Blocks Of Sound

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2009 will add many new pages to this collection of music creation elements and ideas.  Each page explores ways to convert an idea into music.  Over time ,  this will become a music tools archive. 
 

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Music Composition:
Blocks Of Sound
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Intro to Minimalist Music
Suite 101.com  |  This 20th century style of composition offers variations on a single chord in harmonic progression  | 
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NationMaster;  Music Composition
"Musical composition is a phrase used in a number of contexts, the most commonly used being a piece of music. It is also used, however, to refer the structure of a musical piece and to the process of creating or orchestrating a new piece of music."  | 
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Gavin Thomas introduces the work of Tristan Murail
CompositionToday article  |  "sound masses" included in description  | 
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Schenker Analysis for Pantonal Composition
"Schenker Analysis can be used for Composing new music, rather than just for ... b) Static or "block" polyphony, in which Tones are intended to sound..."  |  community.middlebury.edu/~harris  | 
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Wikipedia: Experimental Music
Includes "building blocks" of sonic composition techniques  | 
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Chip Off the Postminimalist Block
ArtsJournal.com  |  "Jon Gibson for composing beautifully simple sounding music. ... And Terry Riley, for huge shifts between "blocks" of sound, the juxtapositions between which..."  | 
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Metasaxophone Systems: Composition
mburtner  |  "Composition is a key element in the development of new music technologies. .... by Mark Alburger in 21st Century Music as "a monumental block of sound that ..."  | 
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Hear Is Thinking Too:  Deleuse and Guarttari Go Pop
"From this point of view, music can be said to be made up of mobile or "floating" blocks of sound that enter into composition with each other on the smooth space-time of a cosmic plane, outside of points, coordinates, and localized connections, in a "non-pulsed" time (nontempo) made up of nothing but modifications of speed and differences in dynamic"  | 
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Elements of Music - Part Five
trumpet.sdsu.edu  |  The aspects of music are explained  |  Suggestion:  In the address bar , change the 5 to 1 or 2 or 3 or 4  to view remaining elements of music pages  | 
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John Zorn
"Solid, unrelated blocks of sound"  |  "John Zorn held a yellow card up in front of his school of avant-garde musicians: a ten piece group, consisting of two acoustic bass players, two drummers, two guitar players, two violins, a keyboardist and a vocalist-tape-looper. An electric and eclectic array of sounds, strictly governed by the rules of Zorn's ongoing musical gamepiece Cobra, spewed forth"  | 
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TOWARDS A HOLOPHONIC MUSICAL TEXTURE
Panayiotis A. Kokoras  |  Definition of musical texture  |  Music and Meaning.net  |
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Composition Books 01
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  • Composing Music | William Russo
  • Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition
  • Musical Form and Analysis | Glenn Spring
  • Musical Composition | Reginald Smith Brindle
  • Composers on Composing for Band | M Camphouse
  • Musical Composition | Reginald Smith Brindle
  • MAKING MUSIC | Morton Subotnick
  • Counterpoint | Henry Martin
  • Computer-Aided Algorithmic Music Composition
  • Creative Music Composition | Margaret Wilkins
  • New Music Composition | David Cope
  • Automated Music Composition | Phil Winsor
  • The Twentieth-Century Composer Speaks  Nishimura
  • The materials of music composition | HReed
  • Computer music compositions of the United States
  • A Conductor's Repertory of Chamber Music
  • Experimental Music | Isaacson Lejaren
  • List of electronic music compositions
  • A provisional list of electronic music compositions
  • Phrase generation computer music composition
  • Instrumental Arranging | Gary C White
  • Composing for Voice; A Guide for Composers
  • Interactive Music Systems | Robert Rowe
  • Creative Music Composition | Margaret  Wilkins
  • Composing Music with Computers | Eduardo Miranda
  • Computer music compositions of the U S A
  • Arranging & composing, small ensemble | D Baker
  • PC Music Composing with Cubasis VST
  • First steps in playing and composing | SColeman
  • 353 Finger-picking Patterns for Guitar Plus
  • The Guitarist's Guide to Composing and Improvising
  • Composing At The Piano Early Intemrediate Level
  • Creating computer accompaniments
  • More Songwriting and Composing Techniques
  • Four Part Harmony for Solo and Comping
  • Stephen Paulus on Composing for Chorus
  • The art of improvisation | Bob Taylor
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    Composition Books 02
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  • Melody  |  Author: Rikky Rooksby
  • Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
  • Melody Chords for Guitar by Allan Holdsworth
  • Chord-Melody Phrases for Guitar  |  Ron Eschete
  • Melodic Fingerstyle Guitar  |  Peter Mealy
  • The Songwriter's Workshop  |  Jimmy Kachulis
  • Melody  |  Judith Gould
  • Musical Form & Musical Performance  |   E. Cone
  • Melodic Arpeggios For Lead Guitar  |  M Galbo 
  • History of Performing Pitch  |  Bruce Haynes
  • The Elements of Music  |   Ralph Turek
  • How to Write Songs on Guitar  |  Rikky Rooksby
  • Melodic Similarity  |   Walter B. Hewlett
  • Counterpoint in Composition  |   Felix Salzer
  • Melody in Songwriting  |   Jack Perricone
  • Rhythm Reading  |   Daniel Kazez
  • Songwriting for Dummies  |   Jim Peterik
  • Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale  |  W Sethares 
  • Music and the Power of Sound  |  Alain Daniélou
  • Pentatonic Scales for Guitar  |   Chad Johnson
  • Standards Real Book  |   Chuck Sher
  • Tonal and Rhythmic Principles  | : John Mehegan
  • Music Notation  |   Mark McGrain
  • Mozart Finds a Melody  |   Stephen Costanza
  • Elements Jazz Language for Improviser
  • Melodic Rhythms for Guitar  |  William Leavitt
  • Jazz Arranging and Performance Practice
  • Researching the Song  |  Shirlee Emmons
  • Melodic Lines for the Intermediate Guitarist
  • Advanced Blues Reharmonization & Melodic
  • How to Use a Fake Book  |  Ann Collins
  • The Art of Writing Great Lyrics  |  Pamela  Oland
  • Music for Sightsinging  |  Robert W. Ottman
  • Sight-Sing Any Melody Instantly  |  Mark Phillips
  • Chords for Jazz Guitar  |  Charlton Johnson
  • Hearing in Time  |  Justin London
  • Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music
  • Counterpoint  |   Kent Kennan
  • Building a Jazz Chord Solo  |  FSokolow
  • Super Sight-Reading Secrets  |   Howard Richman
  • Creating Melodies  |  Author: Dick Weissman
  • Harmonic Rhythm  |  Joseph P. Swain
  • You Can Write Song Lyrics  |  Author: Terry Cox
  • The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint  |   Tom Benjamin; 
  • Harmony and Voice Leading  |   Edward Aldwell
  • Theory & Harmony for the Contemporary Musician 
  • Elementary Harmony  |   Robert W. Ottman
  • Chorales &  Melodies w/Figured Bass  |   J. S. Bach 
  • Harmony and Theory  |   Keith Wyatt
  • African Polyphony and Polyrhythm  |   Simha Arom 
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    Composition Books 03
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  • Jazz Gems for Solo Guitar  |  Author: Robert B. Yelin
  • Contemporary Eartraining - Level One  |  Mark Harrison 
  • Harmony Through Melody  |  Author: Horton Charles
  • Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres  |  Samuel N. Rosenberg 
  • Melody Writing and Analysis  |  Annie  Warburton
  • Jazz Improvisation for Guitar  |  Garrison Fewell
  • Music Fundamentals  |  Author: Elvo D'Amante
  • Counterpoint in Composition  |  Felix Salzer
  • The Melodic Bass Library  |  Author: Jimmy Haslip
  • Secrets To Writing Killer Metal Songs  |  T Stetina
  • Melodic Minor  |  Author: Don Mock
  • Encyclopedia Scales, Modes & Melodic Patterns
  • Chord Tone Soloing  |  Author: Barrett Tagliarino
  • 60 Melodic Etudes Double Bass  |  John Patitucci 
  • Melodic Improvising For Guitar Developing Motivic Idea  |  Author: Bruce Saunders 
  • Bebop Licks for Guitar  |  Author: Les Wise
  • Analysis & Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures
  • Melodic Junction  |  Author: Jay Umble
  • The Analysis and Cognition of Melodic Complexity  |  Author: Eugene Narmour 
  • Ostinatos for the Melodic Drum Set  |  Author: Rob Leytham 
  • Basic Music Theory  |  Author: Jonathan Harnum
  • Composing MusicAuthor: William Russo
  • Ear Training, Capturing the Basic Chord Qualities
  • Pianists Guide to Blues, Jazz &  Improvisation
  • Melody in Songwriting  |  Author: Jack Perricone
  • The Songwriting Sourcebook  |  Rikky Rooksby
  • Successful Lyric Writing  |  Author: Sheila Davis
  • Writing Better Lyrics  |  Author: Pat Pattison
  • 6 Steps to Songwriting Success  |  Author: Jason Blume
  • The Craft of Lyric Writing  |  Author: Sheila Davis
  • Songbook  |  Author: Nick Hornby
  • Songwriters Market 2006  |  Author: Ian Bessler
  • The Songwriter's Workshop  |  Author: Jimmy Kachulis
  • The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook  |  K Coryat 
  • Songwriters on Songwriting  |  Author: Paul Zollo
  • All About Chords  |  Author: Elvo D'Amante
  • 77 Variations on Suzuki Melodies  |  Author: William Star
  • And Then I Wrote  |  Author: Tom Russell
  • Songwriting  |  Author: Pat Pattison
  • Inside Songwriting  |  Author: Jason Blume
  • Tunesmith  |  Author: Jimmy Webb
  • 88 Songwriting Wrongs & How to Right Them
  • Song  |  Author: Carol Kimball
  • Songwriting  |  Author: Felicity Baker
  • Essential Songwriter's Rhyming Dictionary  |  KMitchell 
  • How to Be a Hit Songwriter  |  Molly-Ann Leikin
  • How to Write Songs on Keyboards  |  Rikky Rooksby
  • 500 Songwriting Ideas  |  Author: Aschmann Lis
  • The Songwriters Idea Book  |  Author: Sheila Davis
  • Creating Melodies  |  Author: Dick Weissman
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    Composition Books 04
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  • The Musician's Guide to Reading and Writing Music
  • The Essential Songwriter  |  Author: Jonathan Feist
  • Inspiration for Songwriters  |  Author: Stan Swanson
  • Studying Rhythm  |  Author: Anne C. Hall
  • Sight-Read Any Rhythm Instantly  |  Mark Phillips
  • The Elements of Music  |  Author: Ralph Turek
  • Making Music  |  Educator Version, Hybrid CD-ROM
  • Workbook for the Elements of Music  | Ralph Turek
  • A Perceptual Study of Intonation  |  Author: J. T. Hart
  • Complete Blues Keyboard Method...
  • Improvisation  |  Author: Tony Wigram
  • Harmony and melody, Volume I   |  Author: Elie Siegmeister
  • Structure And Meaning in Tonal Music
  • Harmony and Melody, Vol. 2  |  Elie Siegmeister
  • Theory and practice of tone-relations  |   Goetschius
  • Guitar Method Rhythm  |  Author: Gary Turner
  • Programmed Ear Training  |  Author: Leo Horacek
  • Melody  |  Author: Michael Hemmingson
  • Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music  |  Paul O. Harder
  • Examples 4 Part Writing From Figured Basses
  • Lessons in melody writing  |  Author: Walter Stuart
  • Sacred Melodies for Violin Solo  |  Author: Craig Duncan
  • Stylistic Harmony  |  Author: Anna Butterworth
  • First year melody writing  |  , Author: Thomas Tapper
  • A New Approach to Ear Training  |  Author: Leo Kraft
  • Harmony book for beginners  |  Preston Ware Orem
  • Jazz Piano - The Blues & Melodic Improvisation
  • Successful songwriting  |   Louis Herscher
  • Exercises in melody-writing  |  Percy Goetschius
  • Melodic and Progressive Etudes, Op. 60"  |  Carcassi
  • The plurality of melodic and harmonic systems
  • Melodic Studies & Compositions for Guitar  |  Hamilton
  • The art of improvisation, a handbook of principles
  • Beginning to Compose  |  John Davies
  • Creative melodic techniques  jazz improvisation
  • 150 progressive exercises for melodic dictation
  • I How to Harmonize melodies  |   J.  Bridger
  • Modern melodic technique  |  Gordon Delamont
  • The Craft of Musical Composition  |  Paul Hindemith
  • Melodic Arpeggios for Lead Guitar  |  Music Sales Ltd 
  • The structure of melodic movement  |  M Kolinski 
  • Melodic Dyadic and Harmonic Singing  |  Cho Turner
  • First Year Melody Writing  |  Author: T. Tapper
  • The improvised melodic line  |  Michael Longo
  • Melodic Etudes for Beginning Saxophone
  • The Craft & Business of Songwriting  | John Braheny
  • Melodic Index to the Works of J S Bach
  • The Complete Singer-Songwriter  |  Jeffrey  Rodgers
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