Reviews for Composing music

The average rating for Composing music based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-06-18 00:00:00 Ronald Barrick I've been writing music for over 30 years at this point and was a music major and teach music professionally, so I was not expecting to learn anything new. And I did not. I read this book with an eye to getting ideas for exercises and approaches I could use in teaching composition to my own students, and I even did a few of the exercises when it seemed like I would learn something interesting from working them. The book is aimed at students who have very minimal knowledge of music and composition ' think college freshmen who are maybe also taking Theory 101 and studied some instrument in high school. It would be totally fine for self study. If you do that, know that it came out in 1980 so it's subtly dated, mostly in its emphasis on ideas found in minimalism. Which at the time was absolutely cutting edge. For my own work it was most helpful in reminding me of techniques and procedures that I often don't think to try, so I copied them into a list in my notebook as I went, to refer to when I'm writing my next pieces.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-02-14 00:00:00 Jim Eads Nothing I didn't already know, which surprised me