| Recommended Reading List |
Russo, William, Composing Music: a New Approach, Prentice Hall Trade, 1983Cope, David, Techniques of the Contemporary Composer, Cengage Learning, 1997 |
| Catalog Content |
What is Composition?: Demysification, İmprovisation, Text compositions, Pauline Oliveros; Materials and Parameters: Texture, Clusters, İntervals, Dynamics, Kryztof Penderecki, Gyorgy Ligeti, Henry Cowell, Luciano Berio, Ludwig van Beethoven, Henrik Gorecki; Styles: Minimalism, Maximalism, Modernism, Serialism, pitch-Centricity, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Kamran Ince, Andrew Norman, Theodor Adorno; Notation and Performance: Spatial notation, Performance, Ensemble; Structural Functions: Barthian functions, Perception, Analysis. |