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As the author write:"This little volume is a hybrid". It is an elementary instruction book in composing music. But it is also a performance book that can be used by a group of players interested in contemporary music. And it is invitably a reflection of Ross Lee Finney reflection of ideas and convictions about composing music formed from years of teaching experiance. This volume is the first of three. It avoids as much as possible problems of melody and harmony. There are ten pieced included in this book to illustrate not only compositional problems but also to supply music that group can perform to develope technique.

Learnig to understand and use the time-line in music
Defining in the musical Time-Line
Three basic ways of orginizing and notating on the Time-Line
First composing exersice - composing for a group of simple percussion instruments
The structure of the Time-Line
Orginizing the Time-Line by using sounds, musicak punctuation and dynamics
Second composition exercise - composing a piece organized by dynamics and sounds for 3 simple percussion instruments
Musical example for Performance - Fig. 1 Study for three percussionists
Using a simple musical form - The Canon
Notation on the Time-Line
Indicating exact pitch for a voice by employing a one-line staff
Musical Example for Performance - Fig. 2 The Fat Man for 3 Voices and Bass Drum
Using the five-line staff and modern clefs to indicate exact pitches
Third composing exercise - composing a piece for voices, piano and 2 triangles
Learning some modern national techniques
Fourth composing exercise - composing piece for three voices and three simple instruments with notation indicating exact pitches in the voice parts (using Clefs), some modern national devices and improvisation
Composing for instruments that play exact pitches
Percussion instruments taht play exact pitches
Writing idiomatic music for the piano, a percussion instrument
Musical Example for Performance - Fig. 3 Prelude (Contrasts) for Piano
Fith composing exercise - Fig. 4 - composing a piece for bell, piano and tambourine
Pitch-range chart for band and orchestra instruments
The musical idea
What is a musical idea?
How the composer uses dynamics, articulation, tempo and instrumentation to develop and achive his ideas
Musical Example for Performance - Fig. 5 Shapes for Chamber Ensamble
The importance of rhythm
How interesting rhythm can revitalize meter by adding variety to the time-line and contribute to a composition's organization by repetition
Pieces for further study and performance
Figure 6 Movement for Percussion and Piano
Figure 7 Suspended movement for Chamber Ensamble
Figure 8 Images for 2 Percussionists and Piano
Figure 9 Conflict for 4 Percussionists
Figure 10 Whistles for 2 or 4 Percussionists

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