Fundamentals of Musical Composition

As usual, it arrived in excellent condition and on time. I haven't been able to read it just yet, but this is definitely a book to buy, if you're studying music theory - even if on just a beginner's level. It contains the basics that you need to know, if you want to become a great composer - as the title says. It's also a "classic", when it comes to this kind of music literature.

A fantastic book, in excellent condition. It arrived promptly, and has been of great use to me. Written in a coherent, easily understandable manner, with clear and well organised examples, Shonberg's book is a handy guide through the form and analysis of music, as well as its composition.

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It's a very advanced book for understanding composition and compositional structures. It addresses everything that I wanted and goes into great detail. Moreover I would say that it has an abundance of examples towards the end of the book becomes a bit of slogg to get through if attempting to read through the book in its entirety, which I did at first. The best way to read this book is to read the theory and a few illustrations and then to skip past them; Come back to them at a later date, when wanting to study them in more detail.

A must have for anyone interested in musical analysis and composition. We Are so lucky to have so many great teoretical works from such A great composer. The book is very practical, and it's a big eye opener, or should I say ear opener! ;)

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A useful book on composing, describes motifs, phrases, sentences and other musical forms

Very inspiring book. The idea of taking a small musical phrase and expanding it to form a larger structures is what I wanted to learn from this book about. Using it now with a couple of my students.

"Fundamentals of Musical Composition" may be an excellent book for advanced composers who can appreciate the nuances of the delicate balance between chaos and order (repetitions, variations on themes). But the word 'fundamentals', while possiby correct, is a bit misleading in this case. If anything, it is more like a "Philosophy of Musical Composition", enjoyable to those who have spent many hours composing and knowing enough to connect the dots. To those people, the book may well be worth four or five stars. However, I can only judge it as myself, and for a beginner, I cannot give more than two stars. I am fully aware that I may do Mr Schoenberg great injustice with this, but I can only hope that these two stars will at least warn some people that this book is not ideal if you want to start composing and learn the basics.

This book exposes the concepts regarding musical form and composition in a very concise and clear way. I have to read it very slowly because ther's so much wisdom in every explanation. Maybe in just one or two sentences the author exposes ideas that have huge implications and relevance, so it challenges me to think deeply about musical form and composition. Highly recomended.

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Autant la musique de Schoenberg n'est pas accessible à tout le monde et peut être contestable, autant ce livre est une mine d'informations et de concept autour de la composition. Les + : - Beaucoup d'analyse de cas concret ( surtout Beethoven, Hayden, Mozart et Bach) - Une vrai aide (voir mémo) pour les personne souhaitent s'instruire ou se parfaire dans l'art de la composition Les - : - Schoenberg n'est pas écrivain, et sa façon d'écrire est parfois déroutante, il a une tendance à dévier du sujet initiale pour y revenir plus tard. - Les exemples renvoient parfois à des partitions plus tôt ou plus tard dans le livre, c'est parfois dur à suivre Je le conseille tout de même aux personne sachant lire la musique(clé de sol et fa, il ya parfois de la clé d'ut3) et qui ont de bonnes connaissance en harmonie

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