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Fundamentals of Musical Composition by Arnold Schoenberg (Paperback, 1999)

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Fundamentals of Musical Composition represents the culmination of more than forty years in Schoenberg's life devoted to the teaching of musical principles to students and composers in Europe and America. For his classes he developed a manner of presentation in which 'every technical matter is discussed in a very fundamental way, so that at the same time it is both simple and thorough'.This book can be used for analysis as well as for composition. On the one hand, it has the practical objective of introducing students to the process of composing in a systematic way, from the smallest to the largest forms; on the other hand, the author analyses in thorough detail and with numerous illustrations those particular sections in the works of the masters which relate to the compositional problem under discussion.

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PublisherFaber & Faber

ISBN-139780571196586

eBay Product ID (ePID)91175891

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Book TitleFundamentals of Musical Composition

AuthorArnold Schoenberg

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicMusic

Publication Year1999

Number of Pages240 Pages

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Item Height234mm

Item Width153mm

Item Weight309g

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Title_AuthorArnold Schoenberg

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by petroskyu
10 Aug, 2022
A book to study to gain insight into composition
This is a book that can’t be hurried. The discussion of music composition is thorough and uses many examples from the established repertoire - Beethoven , Brahms, Bach and so on. Schoenberg is very methodical, showing his great understanding of music and composition up to and including the Romantic composers. Though we think of Schoenberg for his 12 note serialism, this book is about composition prior to that innovation or direction. The more the boom is studied, the more you get out of the book.
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by 2006janets
16 Dec, 2017
Present for my brother. A bit beyond me but apparently just what he wants.
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