Behind Bars The Definitive Guide to Music Notation

Name: Behind Bars The Definitive Guide to Music Notation
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ISBN: 9780571514564

ISBN-10: 0571514561

ISBN-13: 9780571514564

Edition: 2003

Authors: Elaine Gould

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Behind Bars is the indispensable reference book for composers, arrangers, teachers and students of composition, editors, and music processors. In the most thorough and painstakingly researched book to be published since the 1980s, specialist music editor Elaine Gould provides a comprehensive grounding in notational principles. Behind Bars covers everything from basic rules, conventions and themes to complex instrumental techniques, empowering the reader to prepare music with total clarity and precision. With the advent of computer technology, it has never been more important for musicians to have ready access to principles of best practice in this dynamic field, and this book will support…

Book details

Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Faber Music, Limited
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 999
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 3.388
Language: English



Introduction


Acknowledgements



General Conventions



Ground Rules



Chords - Dotted notes - Ties



Accidentals and Key Signatures



Dynamics and Articulation



Grace Notes, Arpeggiated Chords, Trills, Glissandos and Vibrato



Metre



Tuplets



Repeat Signs



Idiomatic Notation



Woodwind and Brass



Percussion



Keyboard



Harp



Classical Guitar



Strings



Vocal Music



Layout and Presentation



Preparing Materials



Score Layout



Part Preparation



Electroacoustic Music



Freedom and Choice


Appendix


Further Reading


Copyright Acknowledgements


Index