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 website.
This book is a comprehensive overview of commonly used chords and
suggests a unification for all different kinds of chord names.
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.
A concise, alphabetically ordered list of typesetting and music
(notation) issues which covers most of the normal cases.
Hader was the chief-engraver of an Austrian engraving firm. 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.
A standard work on music notation.
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.
This manual specifically focuses on preparing print for publication by
Schirmer. It discusses many details that are not in other, normal
notation books. It als gives a good idea of what is necessary to bring
printouts to publication quality.
This book describes music notation for modern serious music, but
starts out with a thorough overview of existing traditional notation
practices.
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 automated system, which must be antiquated by now. EDV means E(lektronischen) D(aten)v(erarbeitung), electronic data processing.
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