Foreword by Jim Snyder

It is all so simple when you stop to think about it—all aspects of music relate to projects and the management of all aspects of music requires project management. Music composition is certainly a project. There is a definable start point and a definable end point to every composition. The properties of sound such as duration, pitch, dynamics, and tone color are the activities. Arranging the activities in various ways make up complex ever-changing projects.

The study of both vocal and instrumental music certainly has many of the characteristics of any project. No serious person undertakes the mastering of a new instrument without first setting a course from the desire to learn, to mastery of the instrument. Some of these ...

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