Composing


The Study of Orchestration
Fundamentals of Musical Composition
Twentieth-Century Harmony
Tonal Harmony: With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Complete Guide to Film Scoring: The Art and Business of Writing Music for Movies and TV
Silence: Lectures and Writings
Composers On Music: Eight Centuries of Writings
Accompanied Voices: Poets on Composers: From Thomas Tallis to Arvo Pärt
Eric Whitacre Collection
Strange Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo, and Pygmies
Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music (Music Pro Guides)
Brian Eno: His Music And The Vertical Color Of Sound
Music Composition For Dummies
The Addiction Formula: A holistic approach to writing captivating, memorable hit songs. With 317 proven commercial techniques and 331 examples. (Holistic Songwriting Book 1)
Don't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneMad Love by Lynessa LayneEine Kleine Murder by Kaye George
Mysteries With Musicians
4 books — 6 voters

BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstThe Audible Past by Jonathan SterneThe Soundscape by R. Murray SchaferNoise, Water, Meat by Douglas KahnNoise by Jacques Attali
Noise, Music & Sound
134 books — 21 voters

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.
Eric Whitacre

J.C. Lillis
Co-writing. Man, just the word. I always thought it would be as intimate as sex and as serious as marriage. You'd come to each other committed but with no clue what to expect. You'd both lay down your tender ugly first-draft words and sounds, full of humiliating dents and bruises, and she'd see every part of your process as you sweated and chopped and swore your way to something plausibly songlike. ...more
J.C. Lillis, A&B

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