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Composition Process Project

 

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:
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Church Choir Music composition - write music yourself!
music-for-church-choirs.com  |  "Composition is a demanding and lonely process and experience is essential. The more choirs you can persuade to sing your music, the quicker you'll learn"
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Choral Composition and Arranging
Vocal Ranges  |  Conversational range  |  Standard range   |  Extreme range  |  Voice Ranges  |  Effect of different range, spacing, and density configurations.  |  Steady State vs. Change  |  Some Variation Techniques  | 
Texture  |  Harmony  |  Voice sub-groupings  |  Voice couplings  |  Voice Density Patterns  | 

COMPOSER'S TOOLS  -  An Interactive Idea List  |  Scale Materials   |  Chords  |  Rhythm  |  Melody  |  Texture  |  Twelve-Tone Technique  |  Other Techniques   |  Electronic Techniques   | 

MUSIC AS SYSTEM  |  Generic System Model  |  Music-As-System Paradigm  |  Key to the Systems Model  | 
Possible Systems and Subsystems Models in Musical Environments  |  The Improvisation or Score as a System: Interacting Subsystems  | 

COMPOSERS AND NATURE  |  Thoughts on the Artist's Ties to Nature  | 

MUSIC ANALYSIS LINKS  |  Harmony, Key Structure  |  Melody: contour, continuity, reduction  |  Motive, phrase, phrase forms  |  Parameters of Texture  |  Texture-Homophony  |  Texture-Polyphony  |  Polyphonic Genres  | 
Binary, Ternary, Strophic  |  Compound Ternary  |  Rondo/Sonata-Rondo/Alternating Forms  |  Sonata  | 
Concerto  |  Ostinato  |  Variations  |  Suite  | 

Computer Resources for Composer and Arrangers  | 

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ChoirWorks.com presents Choral Resource
"Acapella choral composition competition hosted by The Esoterics of Seatle .... Now for the music:. The Concert Choir joined them for the first song"
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Musical Composition, Theory, Songwriting, and Singing: Choral
"Yotamu: I will need ... like some help in composition of song which will be performed by a choir"
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Choral Music by CRAWFORD R. THOBURN
"Over 100 choral works published by: Mark Foster, Shawnee, Abingdon, Carl Fischer, Lawson-Gould, Music 70, H.W. Gray, CPP-Belwin, Warner-Chappell, Coronet, Tetra-Continuo, Concordia, Augsburg-Fortress, Harold Flammer, and Randall Egan."
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Choral music composers - a cappella works
Modern Choral Music Composers

So much of what many of us would think of as choral music is traditional, centuries-old works, things our parent and grandparents grew up with, but that’s really not the be-all and end-all of choral works. There are many talented, genius composers of the last century and a bit, who have created some beautiful, stellar works that are being sung by choirs around the world today. Why not check out some of these brilliant men and women’s work? If you’ve never tried modern choral work, you’re in for a lovely surprise. Why not treat yourself to that surprise today?

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Choral Composition Festival - Choir - Ithaca College
"On the day of the festival the top six entries are performed by high school choirs"
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Gustav Holst's Choral Fantasia  -  A Choral Composition Inspired by the Poet Robert Bridges
Natalie Artemas-Polak
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Choral composition
The Canadian Ecyclopedia  |  About Canadian choral composers  | 
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ChoralNet.org
"The InternetCenter For Choral Music"  |  Community  |  Choir Directory  |  Lists  |  Forums  |  Classifieds  | 
Repertoire  |  Composers  |  Rehearsal  |  Voice  |  Text and Language  |  Church Music  |  Education  | 
Performance  |  Technology  |  Multimedia  |  Reference  | 
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CHORAL PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY
"more than 7,600 scores. The database is searchable by both composer and title, and the music can be downloaded in several forms. PDF is great for quick printouts, but the MIDI, Sibelius, and Finale files are especially useful. You can download and adapt them for your own needs by transposing keys or changing lyrics."  | 
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Musica International
Search in Musica  |  Favorite piece  |  Auditorium  |  Anniversaries  |  Texts of songs  |  Submissions  | 
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Vocal/Choral Music Resources
"Websites and other resources related to vocal & choral music. ... central purpose is to promote excellence in choral music through performance, composition,"  | 
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Chorister/Chorus Resources and Links - TriangleSings
"American Choral Directors Association, a music-education group promoting excellence in choral music through performance, composition, publication"  | 
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A-Cappella.com
Online Resources for the Choral Music Educator
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Drew Collins - Resources for Choral Directors
"Handouts that I use in classes, workshops, and convention sessions are posted here. Download, reproduce and distribute as you please! Visit often, as new resources are added frequently, and old resources are updated. Click here to request future resources, suggest changes/corrections for current ones, to submit one of your own, or to comment on what you've found here. NOTE: Directors of changing voice choirs will find a section at the bottom of this page dedicated especially to them. "  | 
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Choral Composition Festival - Choir - Ithaca College
"Ithaca College hosts a yearly choral music composition contest. On the day of the festival the top six entries are performed by high school choirs from throughout New York."  | 
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Calls for Scores: choral composition, POLYPHONOS
"The Esoterics announces an international call for a cappella choral scores, as this Pacific Northwest ensemble announces its annual competition for choral composition, POLYPHONOS, having many voices or manifold in expression"  | 
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2008 ICF/ICDA Choral Composition Commissioning Competition :: Iowa
The Iowa Composers Forum is a non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of new music in Iowa  | 
Composers Organizations  |  Other Resources  | 
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CompositionToday
Competitions Jobs & Opps » choir Competitions & Call for pieces  | 
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Book List: 
Choral Composition
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Ray Robinson
 
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The Choral Experience: Literature, Materials, and Methods
 
Harold A. Decker 
 
Choral Conducting: Focus on Communication
 
Barbara A. Brinson 
 
Choral Music Methods and Materials: Developing Successful Choral Programs
 
Paul F. Roe 
 
Choral Music Education
 
Barbara Harlow 
 
How to Get Your Choral Composition Published: The Composer as Artist, the Composer as Business Person
 
John Cacavas 
 
The Art of Writing Music: A Practical Book for Composers and Arrangers of Instrumental, Choral, and Electronic Music As Applied to Publication
 
Tom Wine 
 
Composers on Composing for Choir
 
Robert Stephan Hines 
 
Choral Composition: A Handbook for Composers, Arrangers, Conductors, and Singers
 
Suzanne Spicer Tiemstra 
 
The Choral Music of Latin America: A Guide to Compositions and Research
 
Virginia Hancock 
 
Brahms's: Choral Compositions and His Library of Early Music
 
Evelyn Davidson White 
 
Choral Music by African-American Composers
 
 
English Pastoral Partsongs
 
David P. DeVenney 
 
American Choral Music Since 1920
 
Alan Bullard 
 
Oxford Book of Flexible Anthems: A Complete Resource for Every Church Choir
 
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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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  • 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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