Composition - selected bibliography


Adler, Samuel. The Study of Orchestration, 2nd ed. New York: W. W. 
Norton & Company, Inc., 1989. 

Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934. The American rhythm. New York:
Harcourt. 1923.

Barry, Barbara R. Musical time: the sense of order. Stuyvesant, NY: 
Pendragon Press. 1990. 

Bartolozzi, Bruno. New Sounds for Woodwind, 2nd ed. Tr. and ed. by 
Reginald Smith Brindle. London: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Boretz, Benjamin, and Edward T. Cone, eds. Perspectives on American 
Composers. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1971.

Bunger, Richard. The Well-Prepared Piano. Colorado Springs, Colo.: 
Colorado College Music Press, 1973.

Cole, Hugo. Sounds and Signs: Aspects of Musical Notation. London: 
Oxford University Press, 1974.

Cope, David H. New Directions in Music, 5th ed. Dubuque, Iowa: 
William C. Brown, 1989.

Cowell, Henry.  New Musical Resources.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.

Creston, Paul, 1906. Principles of rhythm. New York, F. Columbo. 1964.

Dallin, Leon. Techniques of Twentieth Century Composition, 3rd ed. 
Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown, 1974.

Damschroder, David Allen. The structural foundations of "the music of 
the future" : a...1981.

Epstein, David, 1930. Shaping time: music, the brain, and performance.
New York: Schirmer Books; London: Prentice Hall International. 1995.

Griffiths, Paul. Modern Music and After: directions since 1945. 
London and NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.

Hindemith, Paul. Craft of Musical Composition. (2 vols: 1. Theory, 2. 
Exercises in 2-part Writing. NY: Associated Music Pubs., 1937, 1942; 
London: Schott, 1968.

Kostka, Stefan. Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century 
Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1990.

Kramer, J. The Time of Music: new meanings, new temporalities, new 
listening strategies. New York: Schirmer, 1988.

Lendvai, Ernö. Béla Bartók: An Analysis of His Music. London: Kahn & 
Averill, 1971.

Lester, Joel. Analytic approaches to twentieth-century music.1989.

Lipps, Theodor, 1851-1914. Consonance and dissonance in music. San 
Marino, CA: Everett Books. 1995. 

Logier, Johann. A System of the Science of Music and Practical 
Composition. NY: Da Cappo Press, 1976.

Messiaen, Olivier. The Technique of My Musical Language. Paris: 
Alphonse Leduc, 1944.

Monfred, Avenur de, [Slonimsky, Nicolas, Introduction] The NDM 
Principle of Relative Music. New York, NY: C. Scribner's Sons, 1970.

The New worlds of Edgard Varhse: a symposium. Brooklyn: Institute for 
Studies in American Music, Department of Music, School. 1979.

Nyman, Michael. Experimental Music. New York: Schirmer Books, 
1974.

Partch, Harry. Genesis of a Music, 2nd ed. New York: Da Capo, 1974. 

Patterson, Franklin P., 1871. How to write a good tune: a treatise. New
York: G. Schirmer. 1925.   

Perle, George. Serial Composition and Atonality, 5th ed. Berkeley: 
University of California Press, 1981.

Persichetti, Vincent. Twentieth-Century Harmony. New York: W. W. 
Norton & Company, Inc., 1961.

Rahn, Jay, 1947-. A theory for all music : problems and solutions in 
the anal...1983.

Read, Gardner. Contemporary Instrumental Techniques. New York: 
Schirmer Books, 1976. 

Read, Gardner. Music Notation, 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 
1969.

Read, Gardner, 1913. Modern rhythmic notation. Bloomington: Indiana    
University Press. 1978.

Risatti, Howard A. New Music Vocabulary. A Guide to Notational Signs 
for Contemporary Music. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1973.

Salzedo, Carlos. Modern Study of the Harp. New York: G. Schirmer, 
1921.

Schillinger, Joseph. 1895-1943. Encyclopedia of Rhythms. NY: Da Capo 
Press, 1976.

Schwartz, Elliott, and Daniel Godfrey. Music Since 1945: Issues, 
Materials, and Literature. New York: Schirmer Books, 1993. 

Smith Brindle, Reginald. Musical Composition. NY: Oxford, 1986.

Sorce, Richard. Music Theory for the Music Professional. A Comparison
of Common-Practice and Popular Genres. NY: Ardsley House, 1995.

Stone, Kurt. Music Notation in the Twentieth Century. New York: W. W. 
Norton & Company, Inc., 1980.

Tenney, James. A History of Consonance and Dissonance. University 
of Toronto Press. Tenney describes five different major usages of 
the terms consonance and dissonance (or equivalents) between 
classical Greece and the present.

Turetzky, Bertram. The Contemporary Contrabass, rev. ed. Berkeley: 
University of California Press, 1989.

Vinton, John, ed. Dictionary of Contemporary Music. New York: E. P. 
Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974.

White, Eric. Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works. Berkeley: 
University of California Press, 1979.

Wittlich, Gary, ed. Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood 
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975.

Wuorinen, Charles. Simple Composition. New York: Longman, 1979.

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