Research Guides: Composition: Instruction & Technique

Instruction & technique

The UO Libraries Music Collection includes the following guides to various elements of compositional practice:

The Craft of Musical Composition by Paul Hindemith
Call Number: MT40.H5U64
Publication Date: 1941-42 (v.1, '42)
Simple Composition by Charles Wuorinen
Call Number: MT40 .W9
Publication Date: 1979
The Study of Orchestration by Samuel Adler
Call Number: MT70 .A3 1989
Publication Date: 1989
The Technique of Orchestration by Kent Kennan; Donald Grantham
Call Number: MT70.K37 1983
Publication Date: 1983
Modal and Tonal Counterpoint: from Josquin to Stravinsky by Harold Owen
Call Number: MT55 .O97 1992
Publication Date: 1992
A Practical Approach to Sixteenth Century Counterpoint by Robert Gauldin
Call Number: ML446.G38 1985
Publication Date: 1984
Behind Bars by Elaine Gould
Call Number: MT35 .G735 2011
Publication Date: 2003
Music Notation in the Twentieth Century by Kurt Stone
Call Number: MT35 .S87
Publication Date: 1980
Composing with Finale by Mark A. Johnson
Call Number: Request through Summit
Publication Date: 2008

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