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An instructive book for students at all levels and abilities
Musical composition is becoming a key discipline in music courses
in both schools and universities, and many teachers consider it as
important in the development of young musicians as playing and
listening to music. Indeed, it can be argued that the study of
composition is essential to all musicians, be they performers,
musicologists, teachers, or critics, because through composition
musicians achieve the deepest insight into the elements of music
and the imagination of a composer. Musical Composition: * First
takes the student through the basic elements - melody, harmony,
counterpoint, and rhythm - before covering a variety of special
subjects such as writing vocal and choral music, accompaniments,
and film and TV music. * Devotes many chapters to composing with
advanced and recent techniques including free diatonicism,
bitonality and polytonality, atonality and twelve-note mic, and
serialism and indeterminancy. * Uses over 200 music examples to
illustrate points in the text, and includes exercises for each
chapter.
This guide to the more adventurous evolutions of music since
1945--pointillism, post-Webernism, integral serialism, free
dodecaphony, aleatory and indeterminate music, graphics, musique
concrete, electronic music, and theatre music--was first published
in 1975 and has been reprinted several times. For this second
edition, Smith Brindle has added a new chapter reviewing
developments over the decade since first publication. He discusses
the decline of experimentalism and the reaction against increasing
cerebralism and complexity as variously illustrated by the more
recent works of Stockhausen, the minimalist works of Reich and
Glass, and the partial return to romanticism. He also reviews the
technological revolution which has taken place in computer music
and concludes that the future of music will for the time being be
most closely associated with technological change and development,
rather than with radical changes in compositional techniques.
This introductory text for students covers all the most important
aspects of serial composition, including full discussion of such
topics as melody writing, twelve-note harmony, polyphonic writing,
forms, stylistic factors, avant-garde techniques, and free
twelve-note composition. The author's intention is to avoid a
pedantic exposition of serial principles and to include many
technical details which are also valid in non serial contexts,
being the common property of contemporary musical languages.
Richard Smith Brindle (born 1917) is a native of Lancashire. He
studied at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in Rome
at the Academia di Santa Cecilia, and in Florence privately with
Dallapiccola. His own music is influenced by he Italian avant-garde
school of berio, Maderna, non, and others. From 1970 until his
retirement in 1985 he was Professor of Music at the University of
Surrey.
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