At 6:04 PM -0500 5/1/02, Michael Clark wrote: >For anyone who's interested, there is a neat e-book (free) on music >composition at > >http://www.musique.umontreal.ca/personnel/Belkin/bk/index.html This looks like a good overview, and it provides references to enough musical examples to keep one busy for a while. I think this material would be most useful if one were to download it into a laptop, or to print it out, and then go to a good music library where both scores and recordings are available. Although the author seems to be interested mostly in the classical repertoire, the principles he outlines can be applied to any sort of music. This on-line book is a bit terse, though. Many of his short sections could be expanded into whole chapters. For instance, his section on the coda is only 160 words! -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz