Composition


On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Fundamentals of Musical Composition
Framed Ink
The Elements of Style
The Study of Orchestration
The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
Musical Composition: Craft and Art
Twentieth-Century Harmony
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
The Study of Counterpoint
Schizo
Picture This: How Pictures Work
Theory of Harmony
Toward a Composition Made Whole (Composition, Literacy, and Culture, 163)
Understanding Exposure by Bryan PetersonThe Digital Photography Book by Scott KelbyThe Photographer's Eye by Michael   FreemanWithin the Frame by David duCheminVision & Voice by David duChemin
Best Digital Photography Books
26 books — 22 voters
Mathematical Basis Of The Arts by Joseph SchillingerMusic Theory in One Lesson by Ross TrottierJazzology – The Encyclopedia of Jazz Theory for All Musicians... by Robert RawlinsClassical Form by William E. CaplinEncyclopedia Of Rhythms by Joseph Schillinger
Music Theory
17 books — 10 voters

Evolution Architectural Design Using Grasshopper by Min-Gyu SeolGeometry of Design by Kimberly ElamThe Scallop by Ian CoxDigital Sangaku, Part II by Jean ConstantWhy Old Places Matter by Thompson M. Mayes
Design Composition
33 books — 6 voters
Framed Ink by Marcos Mateu-MestreFramed Perspective Vol. 1 by Marcos Mateu-MestreColor and Light by James GurneyPerspective Made Easy by Ernest R. NorlingStonehouse's Anatomy by Seok Jung Hyun
Best Books For Self-Taught Artists
28 books — 1 voter

Color and Meaning by John GageExplorations of Aotearoa by Max  AllenBirding at the Bridge by Heather   WolfThe Photographer's Eye by John SzarkowskiInto the Nest by Marie Read
Light, Color and Composition
5 books — 2 voters
Film Music by Juan ChattahEmbodied Cognition and Cinema by Mark JohnsonFilm as Embodied Art by Maarten CoëgnartsPsychology of Music by Siu-Lan TanMusic as Image by Benjamin Nagari
Film Music Cognition
14 books — 1 voter

Matsuo Bashō
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. ...more
Bashō

Claude Debussy
I love music passionately. And because I love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Claude Debussy

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