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Composition Books
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 324,871 ratings — published 2000
Framed Ink (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 3,093 ratings — published 2010
Fundamentals of Musical Composition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 360 ratings — published 1967
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,887 ratings — published 1918
The Study of Orchestration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 693 ratings — published 2002
The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 6,138 ratings — published 2007
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 6,467 ratings — published 2006
Musical Composition: Craft and Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 99 ratings — published 2018
Twentieth-Century Harmony (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 352 ratings — published 1961
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 13,426 ratings — published 1994
The Study of Counterpoint (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,165 ratings — published 1965
Schizo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 4,328 ratings — published 2014
Picture This: How Pictures Work (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,004 ratings — published 1991
Theory of Harmony (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 644 ratings — published 1911
Toward a Composition Made Whole (Composition, Literacy, and Culture, 163)
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avg rating 4.33 — 81 ratings — published 2011
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 3,386 ratings — published 2011
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 21,802 ratings — published 1973
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 12,065 ratings — published 2006
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 113,488 ratings — published 1994
Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Underprepared (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,273 ratings — published 1989
Principles of Orchestration (Dover Books On Music: Analysis)
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avg rating 4.30 — 456 ratings — published 1822
Framed Ink 2: Frame Format, Energy, and Composition for Visual Storytellers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.65 — 93 ratings — published 2021
Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 418 ratings — published 1991
Strengthen Your Paintings With Dynamic Composition (Elements of Painting)
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avg rating 4.09 — 23 ratings — published 1994
Techniques of the Contemporary Composer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 38 ratings — published 1997
Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation (Faber Edition)
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avg rating 4.86 — 163 ratings — published 2011
The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 389,177 ratings — published 2013
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,023 ratings — published 2005
Composing Music: A New Approach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 65 ratings — published 1983
Instrumentation and Orchestration (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 85 ratings — published 1980
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 9,346 ratings — published 2014
The Monkey's Paw (Library Binding)
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avg rating 3.84 — 18,919 ratings — published 1902
Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 449 ratings — published 2007
A Composer's Guide to Game Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 179 ratings — published 2014
The Norton Book of Composition Studies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 137 ratings — published 2009
Pictorial Composition (Composition in Art)
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avg rating 3.91 — 149 ratings — published 1967
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 16,034 ratings — published 2007
The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 539 ratings — published 2001
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 118,323 ratings — published 1886
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 122,738 ratings — published 2002
Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing (Oxford University Press Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 131 ratings — published 1977
Composition In The University: Historical and Polemical Essays (Composition, Literacy, and Culture, 163)
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avg rating 3.94 — 53 ratings — published 1998
The Study of Fugue (Dover Books On Music: Analysis)
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avg rating 4.10 — 91 ratings — published 1966
New Musical Resources (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 52 ratings — published 1930
A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.53 — 100 ratings — published 1996
A Rhetoric for Writing Teachers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 185 ratings — published 1987
Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition (Composition, Literacy, and Culture, 163)
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avg rating 3.51 — 41 ratings — published 1992
WRITING WITHOUT TEACHERS (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 651 ratings — published 1973
Stilistik & stilanalys (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published
Artists' Master Series: Composition & Narrative (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 47 ratings — published
“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.”
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“The century of airplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.”
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