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Techniques of the contemporary composer / David Cope.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1997.Description: xiii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0028647378
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • MT40 .C74 1997
Contents:
Approaches to composition -- Skills and tools -- The profession -- Rudiments of orchestration and form -- Basic key concepts -- Chromaticism -- Expansions and planing -- Polytonality -- Scales -- Motives -- Basic melodic concepts -- Extended melodic lines -- Accompaniments -- The overtone series -- Texture -- Consonance and dissonance -- Interval strengths -- Roots -- Progression strengths and chromaticism -- Basic concepts -- Fifth and fourth chords -- Second and seventh chords -- Interval combinations -- The row -- Category analysis and composition -- Combinatoriality -- Nonpitch serialism -- Pointillism -- Klangfarbenmelodie -- Basic pitch-class sets -- Analyzing sets -- Composing with pitch-class sets -- Vectors and z-complements -- Invariance and other variations. Bar lines and pulsation -- Freeing metric constraints -- Metric modulation -- Proportional notation -- Variations and overviews -- Texture -- Micropolyphony -- Spatial modulation -- Timbre modulation -- Rhythmic and other modulations -- Basic principles -- Equal temperament -- Intonation and tuning systems -- Microtones -- Instrument types -- Notations and effects -- Organization, direction, and drama -- Prepared piano -- Percussive effects -- Multiphonics -- Muting effects -- Extensions of traditional techniques -- Other effects -- New instruments -- Metric and improvisational notation -- Proportional and graphic notation -- Cluster notation -- Microtone notation -- Percussion and piano notation -- Electronic and computer notation -- Notations of nontraditional techniques -- Composer indeterminacy -- Performer indeterminacy -- Mobiles and stochastic music -- Uses of indeterminacy. Sources -- Basic techniques -- Recorders and tape -- Tape manipulation and effects -- General acoustic principles -- Electronic sound sources -- Sound manipulation -- Mixing and editing -- MIDI -- Composition processes and approaches -- General programming techniques -- Mathematical sources -- Musical sources -- Interactive and collaborative composition -- Multimedia -- Mixed media -- Intermedia -- Virtual reality -- Silence as minimalism -- Concept music -- Brevity works -- Continuities -- Phase and pattern music -- Situation and circumstance music -- Soundscapes -- Biomusic -- Antimusic -- Eclecticism -- Quotation -- Sectionalization -- Overlays -- Integration.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library Music Pocket Library Books & Scores MT40.C74 1997 1 Available 33710000800123

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index.

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Approaches to composition -- Skills and tools -- The profession -- Rudiments of orchestration and form -- Basic key concepts -- Chromaticism -- Expansions and planing -- Polytonality -- Scales -- Motives -- Basic melodic concepts -- Extended melodic lines -- Accompaniments -- The overtone series -- Texture -- Consonance and dissonance -- Interval strengths -- Roots -- Progression strengths and chromaticism -- Basic concepts -- Fifth and fourth chords -- Second and seventh chords -- Interval combinations -- The row -- Category analysis and composition -- Combinatoriality -- Nonpitch serialism -- Pointillism -- Klangfarbenmelodie -- Basic pitch-class sets -- Analyzing sets -- Composing with pitch-class sets -- Vectors and z-complements -- Invariance and other variations. Bar lines and pulsation -- Freeing metric constraints -- Metric modulation -- Proportional notation -- Variations and overviews -- Texture -- Micropolyphony -- Spatial modulation -- Timbre modulation -- Rhythmic and other modulations -- Basic principles -- Equal temperament -- Intonation and tuning systems -- Microtones -- Instrument types -- Notations and effects -- Organization, direction, and drama -- Prepared piano -- Percussive effects -- Multiphonics -- Muting effects -- Extensions of traditional techniques -- Other effects -- New instruments -- Metric and improvisational notation -- Proportional and graphic notation -- Cluster notation -- Microtone notation -- Percussion and piano notation -- Electronic and computer notation -- Notations of nontraditional techniques -- Composer indeterminacy -- Performer indeterminacy -- Mobiles and stochastic music -- Uses of indeterminacy. Sources -- Basic techniques -- Recorders and tape -- Tape manipulation and effects -- General acoustic principles -- Electronic sound sources -- Sound manipulation -- Mixing and editing -- MIDI -- Composition processes and approaches -- General programming techniques -- Mathematical sources -- Musical sources -- Interactive and collaborative composition -- Multimedia -- Mixed media -- Intermedia -- Virtual reality -- Silence as minimalism -- Concept music -- Brevity works -- Continuities -- Phase and pattern music -- Situation and circumstance music -- Soundscapes -- Biomusic -- Antimusic -- Eclecticism -- Quotation -- Sectionalization -- Overlays -- Integration.