Music Composition

David Temperley   David Temperley addresses a fundamental question about music cognition: how do we extract basic kinds of musical information, such as meter, phrase... [read more]

Ted Pease   Jazz composition has evolved into a disciplined art that often evidences great emotional depth and breadth of sophistication. Berklee College of Music... [read more]

Bruce Arnold  

Cecil Forsyth   This is THE classic book on orchestration that every musician and composer should own. Each instrument of the modern orchestra is given... [read more]

George Perle  

Hugo Norden  

Richard Strauss, Hector Berlioz   Originally written by Berlioz and later expanded by Richard Strauss, Treatise on Instrumentation is a comprehensive study of the orchestra. Every instrument... [read more]

L. Dow Balliett  

Aaron Frankel  

Trevor Herbert  

Jean-Jacques Nattiez,Jonathan Dunsby  

David Boucher, Gary K. Browning   The authors deal with various aspects and periods of Dylan's career, including the early protest ballads, the artistic high-point of his mid-sixties... [read more]

Leslie M. Sabina  

William Russo  

William Banfield   A sequel to the award-winning The Black Composer Speaks (Scarecrow Press, 1978), this exploration of the creative world of African American composers... [read more]

James R. Heintze, Michael Saffle   Explores the broad range and diversity of post-World War II musical culture in the United States. 400 pages cover all genres classical... [read more]

Isabelle Peretz, Robert J. Zatorre   Music offers a unique opportunity to better understand the organization of the human brain. Like language, music exists in all human societies.... [read more]

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