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The Language of Music (2012) is a contemporary music theory book written by Tom Brooks and published by Hal Leonard Publishing. [1] The book explains principles used in modern music starting at a foundational level (Basic Building Blocks of Music) and progressing to topics such as Chord Building, Transposition, Cadences, Modes, and Chord Substitution. [2]
Silence: Lectures and Writings is a book by American experimental composer John Cage (1912–1992), first published in 1961 by Wesleyan University Press. Silence is a collection of essays and lectures Cage wrote during the period from 1939 to 1961.
Since the invention of sound recording, a classical piece or popular song may exist as a recording.If music is composed before being performed, music can be performed from memory (the norm for instrumental soloists in concerto performances and singers in opera shows and art song recitals), by reading written musical notation (the norm in large ensembles, such as orchestras, concert bands and ...
It was later translated into English with three added chapters and published in 1971 by Indiana University Press, republished in 1992 by Pendragon Press with a second edition published in 2001, also by Pendragon. The book contains the complete FORTRAN program code for one of Xenakis's early computer music composition programs GENDY. It has been ...
Composing Matters Pupil Book ISBN 978-0435811822: Heinemann 2002 Oxford Composing Matters CD/CD-ROM ISBN 978-0435811808: Heinemann 2002 Oxford Composing Matters Teacher Resource Pack ISBN 978-0435811815: Heinemann 2002 Oxford Europe: World of Music ISBN 978-0431117768: Heinemann Library 2008 Chicago
Originally the Notenbuch was a bound volume comprising forty-eight pages of blank music paper, with eight staves on each page. Inscribed with the words Pour le clavecin (French: For the harpsichord), it was presented to Nannerl on the occasion of her eighth name day on 26 July 1759 (or possibly her eighth birthday, which fell on the 30th or 31st day of the same month).
The first part of the book, "Imaginary Conversations", is about Beethoven, meaning in music, and the difficulty to write popular tunes for serious composers. A brief section, "Interlude: Upper Dubbing, Calif.", describes the peculiarities of composing film music. It was published on May 30, 1954, in The New York Times. [4]
On the other hand, Mozart was in fact able to compose without a keyboard, according to various sources. German musicologist Hermann Abert cited Mozart's first biographer Franz Xaver Niemetschek in his book, who originally wrote: "He never went to the keyboard when composing." Mozart's wife, Constanze, has also stated the same thing and added ...