Simple Composition - Softcover

Wuorinen, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0938856065 ISBN 13: 9780938856061

Publisher: Alfred Music Co, 1994

Synopsis

Charles Wuorinen was described as a maximalist", writing music that is luxuriant with events, lyrical and expressive, and strikingly dramatic. His works are characterized by powerful harmonies and elegant craftsmanship, offering at once a link to the music of the past and a vision of a rich musical future.

'Simple Composition', Wuorinen's classic text book, offers a glimpse inside the composer's studio and much practical advice to composer's searching for their own path.

"In writing this book, I intended it primarily as a guide for composers in search of practical advice and models of how one might work compositionally. But since my presentation made extensive use of the twelve-tone system in its simplest and most easily describable form, the book was taken as a primer in that system [...] Perhaps today the book may offer a slightly different contribution than it did originally: to offer a basic outline of a musical system and method that has proved immensely rich since its introduction by Schoenberg, as well as to provide a few practical tips." (Charles Wuorinen)

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Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred Music Co
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0938856065
• ISBN 13: 9780938856061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 999