music-theory-books

[music-theory-books]

Recommended Reading for Composers

Harmony / Cointerpoint / Composition

Edward Aldwell, Carl Schachter: Harmony and Voice Leading

Wallace Berry: Form in Music

Johann Joseph Fux: The study of counterpoint

Paul Harder, Greg Steinke: Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music: A Programed Course

Knud Jeppesen: Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century

Kent Kennan: Counterpoint

Charles Koechlin: Traite de l'Harmonie (French)

Stefan Kostka, Dorothy Payne, Byron Almén: Tonal Harmony

Steven G. Laitz: The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis, and Listening [RS]

Mike Longo: Jazz/Rock/Pop Harmony and Systematic Chord Substitution

Alfred Mann: The Study of Fugue

W.A. Mathieu: Harmonic Experience - Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression

Robert Ottman: Elementary Harmony and Advanced Harmony

Vincent Persichetti: Twentieth Century Harmony

Walter Piston: Counterpoint

Walter Piston: Harmony

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Treatise on Harmony

George Russell: The Lydian Chromatic Technique

Felix Salzer, Carl Schachter: Counterpoint in Composition

Peter Schat: The Tone Clock

Arnold Schoenberg: Fundamentals of Musical Composition

Arnold Schoenberg: Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint

Arnold Schoenberg: Structural Functions of Harmony

Arnold Schoenberg: Theory of Harmony

Peter Schubert: Modal Counterpoint - Renaissance Style

Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky: Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony

Ludmila Ulehla: Contemporary Harmony

Atonal and Serial Music

Reginald Smith Brindle: Serial Composition

David Cope - Techniques of the Contemporary Composer

Leon Dallin: Techniques of 20th century Composition

Allen Forte: The Structure of Atonal Music

Paul Griffiths: Modern Music and After: Directions since 1945

Lyle Murphy: System of Horizontal Composition Based on Equal Intervals

George Perle: Serial Composition And Atonality - An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern

George Perle: Twelve-Tone Tonality

John Rahn: Basic Atonal Theory

Nicolas Slonimsky: Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns

Arnold Whittall: Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century

Charles Wuorinen: Simple Composition

Notation

Elaine Gould: Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation

Samuel Z. Solomon: How to Write for Percussion [AD]

Kurt Stone: Music Notation in the Twentieth Century - A Practical Guidebook

Orchestration

Samuel Adler: The Study of Orchestration

Peter Alexander: Professional Orchestration

Hector Berlioz: Orchestration

Alfred Blatter: Instrumentation and Orchestration

Tom Boras: Jazz composition and arranging

Henry Brant: Textures and Timbres

Cecil Forsyth: Orchestration

Paul Gilreath: The guide to MIDI orchestration

Kent Kennan, Donald Graham: The Technique of Orchestration

Henry Mancini: Sounds and Scores - Practical Guide to Professional Orchestration

Walter Piston: Orchestration

Gardner Read: Compendium of Modern Instrumental Techniques

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Principles of orchestration (Online Version)[http://northernsounds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php/77-Principles-of-Orchestration]

Leslie Sabina: Jazz arranging and orchestration

Don Sebesky: The Contemporary Arranger

Joseph Wagner: Orchestration

Film

Richard Bellis: Emerging Film Composer

Richard Davis: Complete Guide to Film Scoring

Earle Hagen: Scoring for Films

Tomlinson Holman: Sound for Film & Television

Fred Karlin, Rayburn Wright: On the Track

Henry Mancini: Sounds and Scores - Practical Guide to Professional Orchestration

Jack Smalley: Composing for Film

Sound Design

Howard Angus: Acoustics and psychoacoustics

Michel Chion: Audio-Vision

David Sonnenschein: Sound design

David Yewdall: Practical art of motion picture

Production / Engineering

Tim Crich: Recording Tips for Engineers

Bob Katz: Mastering Audio - the Art and the Science

Bobby Owsinsky: the Mixing Engineer Handbook

Jay Rose: Audio Postproduction for Digital Video

Mike Senior: Mixing Secrets for The Small Studio

Other

Leonard Bernstein: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard

Charles Bodman Rae: The Music of Lutoslawski

Ron Gorow: Hearing and writing music

James Hepokoski, Warren Darcy: Elements of a Sonata Theory

Paul Hindemith: Elementary Training for Musicians

Mark Eden Horowitz: Sondheim on Music - Minor Details and Major - Decisions

Jerrold Levinson: Music in the Moment

Olivier Messiaen: Techniques of my musical language

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Letters

Nelson Riddle: Arranged by Nelson Riddle

Charles Rosen: Sonata Forms

Charles Rosen: The Classical Style

Charles Rosen: The Romantic Generation

Max Rudolf: The Grammar of Conducting

George Santayana: Aesthetics

Arnold Schönberg: Style and Idea

Steven Stucky: Lutoslawski and His Music

Richard Wagner: Music and Drama

What is this ?

A list of recommended books from this thread on vi-control.net, started by Patrick de Caumette.