Arnold Schoenberg: Fundamentals of Musical Composition (1967–) [EN, IT, ES, PT]

Fundamentals of Musical Composition represents the culmination of more than forty years in Schoenberg’s life devoted to the teaching of musical principles to students and composers in Europe and America. For his classes he developed a manner of presentation in which ‘every technical matter is discussed in a very fundamental way, so that at the same time it is both simple and thorough’. This book can be used for analysis as well as for composition. On the one hand, it has the practical objective of introducing students to the process of composing in a systematic way, from the smallest to the largest forms; on the other hand, the author analyses in thorough detail and with numerous illustrations those particular sections in the works of the masters which relate to the compositional problem under discussion.

Edited by Gerald Strang, with the collaboration of Leonard Stein
Introduction by Leonard Stein
Publisher Faber and Faber, London/Boston, 1967
ISBN 0571092764
256 pages

Fundamentals of Musical Composition (English, 1967, no OCR)
Elementi di composizione musicale (Italian, trans. Giacomo Manzoni, 1969, added on 2013-12-11)
Fundamentos de la composición musical (Spanish, trans. A. Santos, 1989, added on 2013-12-11)
Fundamentos da composição musical (Portuguese, trans. Eduardo Seincman, 1991/1996, added on 2013-12-11)