Composition category: 2309 books
Composing for Voice
Exploring Voice, Language and Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Composing for Voice: Exploring Voice, Language and Music, Second Edition, elucidates how language and music function together from the perspectives of composers, singers and actors, providing an understanding of the complex functions of the voice pedagogically, musicologically and dramatically. Composing...
Beyond Notation
The Music of Earle Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Earle Brown (1926–2002) was a crucial part of a group of experimental composers known as the New York School, and his music intersects in fascinating ways with that of his colleagues John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff. This book seeks to expand our view of Brown’s work by exploring...
by Cecil Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This volume is geared toward organists seeking a brief, convenient guide to developing technical grounding for the scoring of compositions. Noted musicologist Cecil Forsyth takes readers bar by bar through a complete choral orchestration in this excellent and inexpensive tutorial.
Forsyth discusses...
by Sophie King
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Let best-selling novelist Sophie King guide you through the whole process of writing your first novel and getting it published.
This revised edition takes aspiring novelists through the steps of writing a novel, from finding that initial idea, to keeping the plot going and crafting the perfect...
by Arthur Plotnik
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Today's writer needs more than just a solid knowledge of usage and composition to write successfully. Bestselling author Arthur Plotnik reveals the secrets to attention-grabbing, unforgettable writing, in this trade paperback edition.
Updated with all-new writing exercises, Spunk & Bite...
by Michael Walters and Ellen Diehl-Matto
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2010
Starting and Finishing the Paper: A How-to Guide to Quality College Papers, Second Edition is an excellent book for college students having difficulties with writing their college papers. It is a fun and step-by-step approach from start to finish.Starting and Finishing the Paper covers how to start a...
Writing Life Stories
How To Make Memories Into Memoirs, Ideas Into Essays And Life Into Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature
From drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers.
Writing Life...
Your Writing Well
Common-Sense Strategies & Logic-Based Skills in 15 Essays for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Fifteen essays for anyone in any profession or academic level, Your Writing Well studies every aspect of the writing process, providing faster means to better products than do narrowly focused trade handbooks and academic texts. Having combed through writing pedagogy and cut through nonsense about...
In My Own Voice. Reading from My Collected Works. More Assorted Selection
In My Own Voice. Reading from My Collected Works, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In this book, I take you to a place where every writer ought to go, but so few even know it exists. I am talking about reading aloud what you've written. The whole point of writing is to motivate a fellow human being, to seize their mind, their brain, their entire being, and suffuse it with your thoughts,...
Renovating Your Writing
Shaping Ideas and Arguments into Clear, Concise, and Compelling Messages
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Renovating Your Writing outlines the principles of effective composition by focusing on the essential skill set and mindset every successful writer must possess. Now in its second edition, this novel text provides readers with unique strategies for crafting and revising their writing, whether for...
The Right Letter
How to Communicate Effectively in a Busy World
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Replaces previous edition.
In today's hectic world of cell phones, email, and instant messages, is it still worthwhile to know how to write a good letter? Absolutely! An attractive, well-written letter can grab the reader's attention and hold it long after someone else's email has been discarded....
by Mark Hanen
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Words skillfully guides you, step by step, through your entire writing project. Written in a conversational style, Words explains how to shape, focus, organize, and polish your nonfiction writing. It coaches you through the process of discovering what you want to say, how you want to say it, and how...
by Stephen Wilbers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Keys to Great Writing
Empower your writing! Keys to Great Writing covers every aspect of the craft, showing you how to develop a writer's voice that is unique, precise, and effective.
From grammar rules to revision strategies, you'll find the crucial information you need in short, easy-to-browse...
Literate Lives in the Information Age
Narratives of Literacy From the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
This book chronicles the development of electronic literacies through the stories of individuals with varying backgrounds and skills. Authors Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E. Hawisher employ these stories to begin tracing technological literacy as it has emerged over the last few decades within the United...