Further Investigations - Bruce Arnold Guitarist

This Further Investigations section will cover more advanced concepts on improvisation and other information that I feel will help to raise your musicianship. It is highly recommended that you check out the book list. Contained within these books is the information that many of the great improvisors and composers have used to educate themselves. Although some of these books will take you years to fully understand the knowledge contained is well worth the study.

The Trichord Improvisation covers the method I use for writing and improvising. If you find this interesting the book: MY MUSIC: Explorations in the Application of 12 Tone Techniques to Jazz Composition and Improvisation.

There is also a digital version of this book which can be found here: MY MUSIC: Explorations in the Application of 12 Tone Techniques to Jazz Composition and Improvisation.

Files:
– Trichord Improvisation

Related Books That I Recommend
Many times students ask me “what books should I read to understand music at a deeper level” Here is a list of books I have found to be very insightful and which have helped me to spur my creativity or teach me the nuts and bolts of music and art in general. This list of books is in no special order.

There is also a digital version of this book which can be found here: MY MUSIC: Explorations in the Application of 12 Tone Techniques to Jazz Composition and Improvisation.

Files:
– Trichord Improvisation

To quick-jump to a topic, select from these:

Theoretical

12 Tone Theory

Counterpoint

Orchestration

History

Time

Notation

Technique

The Mind

Other

Painters

Writers

Theoretical

AUTHOR
:Hanson, Howard, 1896-

TITLE :Harmonic materials of modern music; resources of the tempered
scale.

PUBLISHER :New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1960]

DESCRIPTION :381 p. illus. 24 cm

AUTHOR
Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906- ed.

TITLE Module, proportion, symmetry, rhythm.

IMPRINT New York, G. Braziller [1966]

AUTHOR:
Piston, Walter, 1894-1976.

TITLE: Harmony / Walter Piston.

PUBLICATION: New York : Norton, c1987.

AUTHOR
:Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-

UNIFORM TITLE :Technique de mon langage musical. English

TITLE :The technique of my musical language / by Olivier Messiaen
;

translated by John Satterfield.

PUBLISHER :Paris : Alphonse Leduc, [1957], c1966.

AUTHOR
:Schillinger, Joseph, 1895-1943.

TITLE :The Schillinger system of musical composition / by Joseph
Schillinger.

PUBLISHER :New York : Da Capo Press, 1978.

AUTHOR:
Kramer, Jonathan D., 1942-

TITLE: The time of music: new meanings, new temporalities, new listening

strategies

PUBLISHER: New York, London, Schirmer Books; Collier Macmillan,
1988.

AUTHOR
:Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-

TITLE :Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns / Nicolas Slonimsky.

PUBLISHER :New York : London : Macmillan ; Collier Macmillan, [1986].

AUTHOR
:Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.

TITLE :Theory of harmony. Translated by Roy E. Carter.

PUBLISHER :Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

TITLE
Anton Webern. [Translated by Leo Black and Eric Smith. * Die Reihe,
2

EDITION 2d rev. ed.]

IMPRINT Bryn Mawr, Pa., T. Presser Co. with Universal Edition, London
c1959]

AUTHOR
Schonberg, Arnold, 1874-

TITLE Style and idea.

IMPRINT New York, Philosophical Library [1950]

AUTHOR
:Goldstein, Gil

TITLE :Jazz composer’s companion / by Gil Goldstein.

EDITION :[2nd ed.]

PUBLISHER :Rottenburg N., Germany : Advance Music, c1993. London
[c1965]

AUTHOR
Jonas, Oswald.

UNIFORM TITLE: Einfuhrung in die Lehre Heinrich Schenkers. English

TITLE: Introduction to the theory of Heinrich Schenker : the nature

of the musical work of art / Oswald Jonas ; translated and

edited by John Rothgeb.

PUBLICATION: New York, N.Y. : Longman, c1982.

AUTHOR
Babbitt, Milton, 1916-

TITLE A life of learning / Milton Babitt.

IMPRINT New York, N.Y. : American Council of Learned Societies,
[1991]

AUTHOR
Babbitt, Milton, 1916-

TITLE Milton Babbitt : words about music / edited by Stephen Dembski
and Joseph

IMPRINT Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1987