SOUND PATTERNS
A Structural Examination of Tonality, Vocabulary, Texture,
Sonorities, and Time Organization in Western Art Music
by PHILLIP MAGNUSON
COMPOSITION BASICS
MAKING THE FINAL MANUSCRIPT
If they can't read it, they won't do it
After all the trouble you've gone through so far, you need to take the time necessary to communicate your ideas clearly to others. If your music is difficult to read performers will not be able to realize your intentions. Music manuscript must be neat, ordered, and easy to read. Below are some resources available to help you.
- Notation software:
- Notation texts (hand manuscript...yes, there are composers who still do it that way):
- Gardner Read, Music Notation, Crescendo Publishers
- George Heussenstamm, The Norton Manuel of Music Notation, W. W. Norton and Co.
- Music Paper Online
- Orchestration texts:
Samuel Adler, The Study of Orchestration, W. W. Norton and Co.
- Alfred Blatter, Instrumentation/Orchestration, Schirmer Books.
- Kent Kennan, The Technique of Orchestration, Prentice Hall
- Walter Piston, Orchestration, W. W. Norton and Co.
- Internet resources
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