Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
16 January 2008
Content
• I. Importance of Music Composition in
Education
• II. Principles of Compositional Studies
• III. Procedure of Compositional Training in
Classroom
• IV. A Good Composition Teacher
• V. Materials for Early Composition Lessons
• VI. 20th Century Music Vocabulary
• VII. Musical References
I. Importance of Music Composition
in Education
a. Composition as a U. S. National Content
Standard for Music Education
b. Composition as a special type of intelligences
c. Composition as an intellectual investigation of
musical styles and languages
d. Composition as a problem-solving discipline
II. Principles of Compositional
Studies
1. Motivation
2. Nature vs. nurture
3. Idea and craftsmanship
4. Style does not matter. Quality matters.
5. Life-long learning discipline.
III. Procedure of Compositional
Training in Classroom
• A. Melodic Writing
• Melodic Characteristics
• Tonality and Harmonic Implication in the
Melodic Line:
B. Melodic Form
1. Melodic Units
2. Phrase relationship
3. Phrases in Combinations:
C. Harmonic Writing
• Scales: • Harmony:
• Key Centers: • Rhythm:
• Texture: • Timbre:
• Form: • Styles:
Music Composition References
• Cope, David: New Directions in Music, 5th edition, Wm. C. Brown Publishers,
1989.
• Forte, Allen. The Structure of Atonal Music, Yale University Press, 1973.
• Kostka, Stefan: Materials and Techniques of 20th Century Music, Prentice-
Hall Inc., 2004.
• Morgan, Robert: Anthology of Twentieth-Century Music, W.W. Norton &
Company, Inc., 1992.
• Morgan, Robert: Twentieth-Century Music, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
1992.
• Persichetti, Vincent: Twentieth-Century Harmony, Faber, 1961.
• Schwartz, Elliott and Godfrey, Daneil: Music since 1945: Issues, Materials
and Literature, Schirmer Books, 1993.
• Stone, Kurt: Music Notation in the Twentieth Century, W. W. Norton &
Company, Inc. 1980
• Turek, Ralph: The Elements of Music, 2nd, McGraw-Hill, 1996.