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Literature
If you need to know more about music notation, here are some
interesting titles to read. The source archive includes a more
elaborate BibTeX bibliography of over 100 entries in
Documentation/bibliography/ . It is also available online from
the lilypond website.
- Banter 1987
- Harald Banter, Akkord Lexikon. Schott's Söhne
1987. Mainz, Germany ISBN 3-7957-2095-8
Comprehensive overview of commonly used chords. Suggests (and uses) a
unification for all different kinds of chord names.
- Ignatzek 1995
- Klaus Ignatzek, Die Jazzmethode für Klavier. Schott's Söhne
1995. Mainz, Germany ISBN 3-7957-5140-3
A tutorial introduction to playing Jazz on the piano. One of the first
chapters contains an overview of chords in common use for Jazz music.
- Gerou 1996
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Tom Gerou and Linda Lusk, Essential Dictionary of Music
Notation. Alfred Publishing, Van Nuys CA ISBN 0-88284-768-6
A concise, alphabetically ordered list of typesetting and music
(notation) issues which covers most of the normal cases.
- Hader 1948,
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Karl Hader, Aus der Werkstatt eines Notenstechers. Waldheim-Eberle
Verlag, Vienna 1948.
Hader was the chief-engraver of the Waldheim-Eberle music publishers.
This beautiful booklet was intended as an introduction for laymen on the
art of engraving. It contains a step by step, in-depth explanation of
how to cut and stamp music into zinc plates. It also contains a few
compactly formulated rules on musical orthography. This book is out of
print.
- Read 1968
- Gardner Read, Music Notation: a Manual of Modern Practice.
Taplinger Publishing, New York (2nd edition).
A standard work on music notation.
- Ross 1987,
- Ted Ross, Teach yourself the art of music engraving and processing.
Hansen House, Miami, Florida 1987
This book is about music engraving, i.e. professional typesetting.
It contains directions on stamping, use of pens and notational
conventions. The sections on reproduction technicalities, and history
are also interesting.
- Stone 1980
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Kurt Stone, Music Notation in the Twentieth Century
Norton, New York 1980.
This book describes music notation for modern serious music, but
starts out with a thorough overview of existing traditional notation
practices.
- Wanske 1988,
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Helene Wanske, Musiknotation -- Von der Syntax des Notenstichs zum
EDV-gesteuerten Notensatz. Schott-Verlag, Mainz 1988. ISBN
3-7957-2886-x
A book in two parts:
1. A very thorough overview of engraving practices of various
craftsmen. It includes detailed specs of characters, dimensions
etc. 2. a thorough overview of a anonymous (by now antiquated)
automated system. EDV means E(lektronischen) D(aten)v(erarbeitung),
electronic data processing.
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