Techniques of the Contemporary Composer

Approaches To Composition -- Skills And Tools -- The Profession -- Rudiments Of Orchestration And Form -- Basic Key Concepts -- Chromaticism -- Expansions And Planing -- Polytonality -- Scales -- Motives -- Basic Melodic Concepts -- Extended Melodic Lines -- Accompaniments -- The Overtone Series -- Texture -- Consonance And Dissonance -- Interval Strengths -- Roots -- Progression Strengths And Chromaticism -- Basic Concepts -- Fifth And Fourth Chords -- Second And Seventh Chords -- Interval Combinations -- The Row -- Category Analysis And Composition -- Combinatoriality -- Nonpitch Serialism -- Pointillism -- Klangfarbenmelodie -- Basic Pitch-class Sets -- Analyzing Sets -- Composing With Pitch-class Sets -- Vectors And Z-complements -- Invariance And Other Variations. Bar Lines And Pulsation -- Freeing Metric Constraints -- Metric Modulation -- Proportional Notation -- Variations And Overviews -- Texture -- Micropolyphony -- Spatial Modulation -- Timbre Modulation -- Rhythmic And Other Modulations -- Basic Principles -- Equal Temperament -- Intonation And Tuning Systems -- Microtones -- Instrument Types -- Notations And Effects -- Organization, Direction, And Drama -- Prepared Piano -- Percussive Effects -- Multiphonics -- Muting Effects -- Extensions Of Traditional Techniques -- Other Effects -- New Instruments -- Metric And Improvisational Notation -- Proportional And Graphic Notation -- Cluster Notation -- Microtone Notation -- Percussion And Piano Notation -- Electronic And Computer Notation -- Notations Of Nontraditional Techniques -- Composer Indeterminacy -- Performer Indeterminacy -- Mobiles And Stochastic Music -- Uses Of Indeterminacy. Sources -- Basic Techniques -- Recorders And Tape -- Tape Manipulation And Effects -- General Acoustic Principles -- Electronic Sound Sources -- Sound Manipulation -- Mixing And Editing -- Midi -- Composition Processes And Approaches -- General Programming Techniques -- Mathematical Sources -- Musical Sources -- Interactive And Collaborative Composition -- Multimedia -- Mixed Media -- Intermedia -- Virtual Reality -- Silence As Minimalism -- Concept Music -- Brevity Works -- Continuities -- Phase And Pattern Music -- Situation And Circumstance Music -- Soundscapes -- Biomusic -- Antimusic -- Eclecticism -- Quotation -- Sectionalization -- Overlays -- Integration. David Cope. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.