A volume of projects designed to help student composers achieve technical mastery and artistic growth. For each chapter the author provides suggested exercises paralleling the text and musical illustrations. Teachers may use this book as a classroom text; students may use it independently.

"...the author goes beyond the elements of musicianship, harmony, form, counterpoint, orchestration, and music harmony to present questions related to compositional procedure, style, and aesthetics, to help students discover for themselves the best answers." - Music Educators Journal

"...here is a veritable 'Composer's Kit,' of undoubted scholarship..." - Composer's Guild Of Great Britain