📗 denotes books available in the NMND library.
Composition Texts
Alan Belkin. Musical Composition: Craft and Art. 📗
Richard Bellis. The Emerging Film Composer. 📗
Reginald Smith Brindle, Musical Composition
Vincent D’Indy. Course in Musical Composition, vol. 1. 📗
Leon Dallin. Techniques of Twentieth Century Composition. 📗
Johann Joseph Fux. The Study of Counterpoint/Gradus Ad Parnassum. 📗
Paul Hindemith, Craft of Musical Composition, Books 1-3 📗
Jonathan Middleton. Essentials for Composers–Creative Process by Design. 📗
Vincent Persichetti. Twentieth Century Harmony. 📗
Arnold Schoenberg. Fundamentals of Musical Composition. 📗
Charles Wuorinen. Simple Composition. 📗
Orchestration
Samuel Adler. The Study of Orchestration, 4th Ed. 📗 (3rd Ed. 📗)
Alfred Blatter. Instrumentation and Orchestration. 📗
Kent Kennan and Donald Grantham. The Technique of Orchestration.
Walter Piston. Orchestration. 📗
Charles-Marie Widor. Manual of Practical Instrumentation. 📗
Historical Orchestration Texts:
Hector Berlioz and Richard Strauss: Treatise on Instrumentation.
Adam Carse. The History of Orchestration. 📗x3
Adam Carse. Musical Wind Instruments. 📗
Cecil Forsyth. Choral Orchestration.
Cecil Forsyth. Orchestration. 📗
Nikolay Rimsy-Korsakov. Principles of Orchestration. 📗
Curt Sachs. The History of Musical Instruments. 📗
Instrument-specific Books
Flute
Robert Dick, Tone Development through Extended Techniques.
Brandy Hudelson, The Art of Beatboxing.
Oboe
Libby Van Cleve, Oboe Unbound. 📗
Clarinet
Ronald L. Caravan, Preliminary Exercises & Etudes in Contemporary Techniques for Clarinet
Phillip Rehfeldt, New Directions for Clarinet.
Saxophone
Marcus Weiss, Techniques of Saxophone Playing. 📗
Bassoon
TBA
Horn
Douglas Hill, Extended Techniques for the Horn. 📗
Trumpet
Thomas Stevens, Contemporary Trumpet Studies.
Trombone
TBA
Euphonium
TBA
Tuba
TBA
Percussion
Samuel Z. Solomon, How to Write for Percussion: A Comprehensive Guide to Percussion Composition. 📗
Strings
TBA
Piano
TBA
Organ
TBA
Musicianship and Entrepreneurship
Angela Myles Beeching. Beyond Talent 📗
Gerald Klickstein. The Musician’s Way 📗
David Baskerville and Tim Baskerville. Music Business Handbook and Career Guide 12th Edition. (11th Ed. 📗)
David Cutler. The Savvy Musician 📗
Mark Rabideau, Creating the Revolutionary Artist. 📗
Notation
Elaine Gould. Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation. London: Faber Music, 2011. 📗
Steven Powell. Music Engraving Today, 2nd Ed. New York: Brichtmark Music, 2007. 📗
Howard Risatti. New Music Vocabulary. [Out of print and difficult to find, it lists a number of ways to notate various extended techniques] 📗
Composer Autobiographies/Memoirs
John Adams. Hallelujah Junction. 📗
John Luther Adams. Silences so Deep 📗
Philip Glass. Words Without Music 📗
Alex Ross. The Rest is Noise. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 📗
Electronic Music
Mark Ballora. Digital Audio and Acoustics for the Creative Arts. 📗
Leigh Landy. Understanding the Art of Sound Organization. 📗
Curtis Roads. Composing Electronic Music. A New Aesthetic. 📗
Creativity (and other misc.)
Howard Gardner. Creating Minds. New York: Basic Books, 2011. 📗
Read Montague. Why Choose this Book? How we make decisions. New York: Dutton, 2006 📗
Daniel Coyle. The Talent Code. New York: Bantam, 2009. 📗
Bruce Adolphe. Of Mozart, Parrots, and Cherry Blossoms in the Wind: A composer explores mysteries of the musical mind. New York: Limelight Editions, 1999. 📗
Stephen King. On Writing: A memoir of the craft. New York: Scribner, 2000. 📗
Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman. A Perfect Mess. New York: Back Bay Books, 2007. 📗
Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire. Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind. New York: TarcherPerigee, 2015. 📗
Paul Tough. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. Boston: Mariner Books, 2013. 📗
Robert Jourdain. Music, The Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures our Imagination. New York: Harper Perennial, 2002. 📗
Anne Lamott. Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. 📗
John McPhee. Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. 📗
Angela Duckworth. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. New York: Scribner, 2016. 📗
Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander. The Art of Possibility. New York: Penguin, 2000. 📗
Twyla Tharp. The Creative Habit. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2003. 📗