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Hey guys, I figured I should just come out and be honest about it. Phil, Chris and me were always the same person. I'm actually a bored high schooler from England. Also I am a girl.

^^^neither.

^^Ian

Good books! I have almost all of them. You've touched the classic problem of teaching composition - much stay so focused on the rules and analysis, and forget to exercise creativity, intuition, curiosity... it's always great to analyse something, but if you don't try to compose something like you've analyzed, you'll only be training to become a music analyst. Fortunately, some scholars perceived that flaw in the system and wrote books about it. The methodology you're seeking you'll find in Stefan Kostka's books, mainly Tonal Harmony, that comes with a workbook. Or, if you're looking minus pages of text, look out Alan Belkin's books, mainly: Practical Guide to Musical Composition (https://www.webdepot.umontreal.ca/Usagers/belkina/MonDepotPublic/bk/index.html), which comes with a workbook too (https://www.webdepot.umontreal.ca/Usagers/belkina/MonDepotPublic/PDF/FormWKBK.pdf). Very pedagogical, very practical. Enjoy! P.S.: Try after this to begin the study of orchestration too. You'll find this very useful.

You are correct, sir. Russian names are horrid to spell. :P

Ah yes, 4 part harmony is imperative to composition, Try P. I. Trychaisksky text on Harmony. It is concise and offers better advice on the subject, and, yes, the Schoenberg harmonic texts are good...read then later, for they will confuse you.

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