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2 unusual facts about Schillinger System


Charles Stepney

His favorite book was The Schillinger System of Musical Composition by Joseph Schillinger.

Jerome Walman

Jerome Walman is an American composer and certified instructor of the Schillinger System of Musical Composition.


Mikel Rouse

Meanwhile, Rouse absorbed African rhythmic techniques from A. M. Jones's Studies in African Music, and studied Schillinger technique with Jerome Walman, one of the few "Certified" Schillinger Teachers in America; both influences came to inform his music.


see also

Superposition principle

In music, theorist Joseph Schillinger used a form of the superposition principle as one basis of his Theory of Rhythm in his Schillinger System of Musical Composition.