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
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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
