Full name: Hearing and Writing Music: Professional Training for Today's Musician

Author: Ron Gorow Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780962949678 0962949671

In this book you will discover: Transcribing techniques. How to maximize your creativity and productivity. How to develop your craft by consolidating techniques. How to read music with your ears. How you can write music without using an instrument. How to write music spontaneously, as your ear guides your hand. How to communicate accurately through music notation. Why you don't need "perfect pitch." Tools to develop your music perception. 140 exercises, many music examples--models for a lifetime of study. Resources for composing, orchestrating, film scoring. Working in the music business. Where to find supplies, organizations, information, inspiration. A definitive guide and reference for composers, orchestrators, arrangers and performers. Similar books: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory by Michael Miller Schubert's Winter Journey by Ian Bostridge Music Quickens Time by Daniel Barenboim The Dark Stuff by Nick Kent The Heart of Rock & Soul by Dave Marsh Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures by Chris Ott Composing Music by William Russo The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein Stranded by Greil Marcus The Death of Rhythm and Blues by Nelson George This is Uncool by Garry Mulholland Where Did Our Love Go? by Nelson George Music and Imagination by Aaron Copland 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die by Matthew Rye Give My Regards to Eighth Street by Morton Feldman Metallica: Back to the Front by Matt Taylor The Jazz Standards by Ted Gioia The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers The Loser by Thomas Bernhard On Playing the Flute by Johann Joachim Quantz