Complete Idiot`s Guide to Music Composition Book

A step-by-step guide to writing music this book shows musicians how to compose simple chord progressions and melodies and leads them through more advanced compositional techniques and musical forms. Paperback

Designed for composers of all types of music it includes instruction on composing stand-alone melodies using different scales and modes themes and variations orchestration and composing for film theater and videogames. The perfect complement to The Complete Idiot&rsquos Guide to Music Theory and The Complete Idiot Guide to Songwriting it includes a comprehensive glossary of musical terms as well as an appendix of various computer-based composition tools