Music Composition Technique Builder: Practical Training for Composers

by Kevin Ure

Overview

For Composers Who Want to Compose Coherent Music

The Elements of Music Composition gives composers the missing puzzle piece that makes it possible to create musical works that endure and become richer and more meaningful with each performance. Composers learn to create a composition that grows out of a single seed and connects the different disciplines within music composition. Applying the concepts in this book will help composers create highly effective works that resonate with audiences. The education of a composer typically includes instruction in subject areas that are designed to teach composers about the methods that composers of the past used to create original works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666241525
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	01/20/2021
Series:	Composing Music , #2
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Kevin Ure serves as adjunct music faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. As a composer and theorist, he teaches courses in music theory and ear training. Ure holds music composition degrees from The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (BM) and The University of Arizona (MM). He also studied electronic music composition at Western Michigan University. Before working at UNLV, he served as the musical director for Wildcat Secondary School in Tucson, Arizona, a charter school affiliated with The University of Arizona. His roles at the school included instruction in music theory, composition, history, and performance. Most significantly, he utilized music technology to teach students how to compose original music.

The composer uses the overtone series as a basis to create a brand of tonality that embraces chromaticism and attempts to expand upon many of the concepts employed in traditional tonality. He composes for orchestra, wind symphony, piano, brass, woodwinds, and strings. Ure has also released two recordings of his music, The Beast of Gevaudan (2003) and Soliloquy (2009). He is the author of the music theory and ear training textbook, The Musical Core: Essential Theory and Aural Training for Musicians, which is used by music fundamentals courses across the country, including The University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has written additional books on music composition and theory, including A Composer's Guide to Counterpoint, The Elements of Music Composition, Music Composition Technique Builder, and The Craft of Music Composition: Volumes I and II.

Kevin founded UreMusic.com in 1996, where he continues to teach private music composition lessons. His music and additional information is available through KevinUre.com, iTunes, Amazon, and SoundCloud.