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Composition (Music)

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Composing for the films

Hanns Eisler

1947

Evening in the Palace of Reason

James R. Gaines

2005

How to write a hit song

Molly-Ann Leikin

2000

Listening Out Loud

Elizabeth Swados

1988

Shortcuts to hit songwriting

Robin Frederick

2008

Essays on song-writing

John Aikin

1774

The homophonic forms of musical composition

Percy Goetschius

1898

Techniques and materials of tonal music

Thomas Edward Benjamin

1986

Percussion, rhythm, music, movement

Henrietta Rosenstrauch

1970

Elementary training for musicians

Paul Hindemith

1946

Squanto

Clyde Robert Bulla

1954 ★ 3.2

Acoustic and midi orchestration for the contemorary composer

Richard DeRosa, Andrea Pejrolo

2007

The art of strict musical composition

Johann Philipp Kirnberger

1982

The digital musician

Andrew Hugill

2012

Silence

John Cage

1961 ★ 3.7

How to rap : the art and science of the hip-hop MC

Edwards, Paul

2009

The musical experience of composer, performer, listener

Roger Sessions

1950

How to Write for PERCUSSION

Samuel Z. Solomon

2002

The composer's advocate

Erich Leinsdorf

1981

The study of counterpoint

Johann Joseph Fux

1965

Materials and techniques of twentieth-century music

Stefan Kostka

1989

From Score To Screen

Sonny Kompanek

2004

Algorithmic composition

Gerhard Nierhaus

2009

The larger forms of musical composition

Percy Goetschius

1915

The Songwriter's Workshop

Jimmy Kachulis

2005

Fundamentals of musical composition

Arnold Schoenberg

1967

Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century

Arnold Whittall

1999

The theory and practice of musical form

J. H. Cornell

1883

Polyphonic Composition

O. Swindale

1968

Choral orchestration

Cecil Forsyth

1920

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