Making Music with Sounds

Landy, Leigh

ISBN 10: 041580678X / ISBN 13: 9780415806787

Published by Routledge, 2012

About this Item

This title offers a creative introduction to the art of making sound-based music. It introduces the elements of making compositions with sounds and facilitates creativity in school age children, with the activities primarily for 11-14 year old students. Num Pages: 224 pages, 84 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 430. . 2012. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Music with Sounds
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041580678X
• ISBN 13: 9780415806787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Making Music with Sounds offers a creative introduction to the art of making sound-based music. It introduces the elements of making compositions with sounds and facilitates creativity in school age children, with the activities primarily for 11-14 year old students. It can also be used by people of all ages becoming acquainted with this music for the first time.

Sound-based music is defined as the art form in which the sound, rather than the musical note, is the basic unit and is closely related to electronic music and the sonic arts. The art of sound organisation can be found in a number of forms of music--in film, television, theatre, dance, and new media. Despite this, there are few materials available currently for young people to discover how to make sound-based music. This book offers a programme of development starting from aural awareness, through the discovery and organisation of potential sounds, to the means of generating and manipulating sounds to create sequences and entire works. The book’s holistic pedagogical approach to composition also involves aspects related to musical understanding and appreciation, reinforced by the author’s online pedagogical ElectroAcoustic Resource Site (EARS II).

About the Author

Leigh Landy is Director of the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University, UK. He is an active composer, editor of the journal Organised Sound, and co-founder of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network.