MUSIC ENGRAVING AND COPYING MANUALS
- Ross, Ted. 1987. Teach Yourself the Art of Music Engraving. Chas. M. Hansen Music and Books, Inc. Miami Beach, Florida. Subject: Music Engraving.
- Jacob, Archibald. 1947. Musical handwriting : or, How to put music on paper : A handbook for all musicians, professional and amateur. London: Oxford University Press, Subject: Musical notation.
- Roemer, Clinton.The Art of Music Copying
- Brandt, Carl, and Roemer, Clinton. Standardized Chord Symbol Notation.
Sherman Oaks, CA: Roerick Music Co.
- Johnson, Harold M. 1946. How to write music manuscript an exercise-method handbook for the music student, copyist, arranger, composer, teacher. New York: Carl Fischer, Inc. Subject: Musical notation --Handbooks, manuals.
- Donato, Anthony. 1963. Preparing Music Manuscript. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, Inc.
- "Standard Music Engraving Practice". 1966. New York: Music Publisher's Association.
- Music Printing & Publishing, Edited by Donald W. Krummel & Stanley Sadie. 1990. The Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music. W.W. Norton
- Foss, Hubert "Music Printing", from Practical Printing and Binding. London: Oldhams Press Ltd., Long Acre.
- Noteworthy
HISTORY OF MUSIC PRINTING AND ENGRAVING
- Steele, Robert. 1903.The Earliest English Music Printing. London.
- Austin, Ernest. The Story of Music Printing. London: Lowe and Brydone Printers, Ltd.
- "Pictoral History of Music Printing". E;lhardt, Indiana: H. and A. Selmer, Inc.
- Scholderer, Victor. 1963. Johann Gutenberg. London: British Museum.
- Wintermitz, Emmanuel. 1955. Musical Autographs from Monteverdi to Hindemith. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Wolf, Johannes. 1919. Hanbuch der Notationskunde. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel.
- Novello, A. 1847. Some Account of the Methods of Musick Printing, with Specimens of the Various Sizes of Moveable Types and of Other Matters. London.
- Chrsander, F. 18___."A Sketch of the HIstory of Music printing, from the 15th to the 16th century, MT ____________.
- Squire, W. 1897. "Notes on Early Music Printing", Bibliographica, iii, 99.
- Meyer, K. and O'Meara, J. 1935. "The Printing of Music, 1473-1934", The Dolphin, ii, p.171-207.
- Pattison, B. 1939. "Notes on Early Music Printing",The Library, 4th ver., xix, p.389-421.
- Barksdale, A. 1957. The Printed Note: 500 Years of Music Printing and Engraving. Toledo, Ohio (exhibition catalogue, the Toledo Museum of Art).
- King, H. 1964. Four Hundred Years of Music Printing. London.
- Gamble, W. 1923 (Rev. 1971). Music Engraving and Pinting, Historical And Technical Treatise. Londond.
- Deutsch, O.F. 1946 (Rev.1961). Music Publishers' Numbers. London.
- Marco, G.A. 1962. The Earliest Music Printers of Continental Europe: a Checklist of Facsimiles Illustrating Their Work. Charlottesville, Virginia.
- Kinkeldey, O. 1932. "Music And Music Printing in Incunabula", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, xxvi, p.89-118.
- Oldman, C.B. 1934. Collecting Musical First Editions. London.
Also in: Carter, J. 1934. New Paths in Book Collecting London.
- Krummel, D.W. 1958-9. "Graphic Analysis in Application to Early American Engraved Music", Notes, xvi, p.213.
- Krummel, D.W. 1971. "Oblong Format in Early Music Books", The Library., 5th ser., xxvi, p.312.
- King, A.H. 1973. "The 50th Anniversary of Music Printing", M_________, cxiv.
GENERAL NOTATION
Rastall, Richard. 1982. The notation of Western music : an introduction. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press. Subject: Musical notation.
Tappelot, Willy. 1947. La Notation Musicale. Paris: Neuchatel.
Williams, C.F. Abdy. 1903. The Story of Notation. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Rosenthal, Carl A. 1967.A Practical Guide to Music NotationNew York: MCA Music.
EARLY NOTATION
- Apel, Willi. 1953. The notation of polyphonic music, 900-1600. Cambridge, Mass.: Mediaeval Academy of America. Subject: Musical notation.
- Berger, Anna Maria Busse. 1993. Mensuration and proportion signs : origins and evolution. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press .
- Parrish, Carl. 1957. The notation of medieval music. New York : Norton. Subject: Musical notation.
- Parrish, Carl. 1946. The Notation of Medieval Music. New York: Carl Fischer, Inc.
- Patch, Harry. 1949. Genesis of a Music. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
20TH CENTURY and/or NEW NOTATION
Cage, John. 1969. Notations. New York: Something Else Press. Subject: Music, Manuscripts, Facsimiles. (Facsimiles of holographs from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, with text by 269 composers, but rearranged using "chance operations.".)
Gaburo, Virginia. 1977. Notation. Lingua Press: La Jolla, California. Subject: A Lecture about notation, new ideas about.
Karkoschka, Erhard. 1972. Notation in new music; a critical guide to interpretation and realisation. Translated from the German by Ruth Koenig. New York: Praeger.
Risatti, Howard. 1975. New Music Vocabulary. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. Subject: A Guide to Notational Signs for Contemporary Music.
Boehm, Laszlo. 1961. Modern Music Notation. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc.
Cowell, Henry. 1930. New Musical Resources. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Cowell, Henry. 1927. "Our Inadequate Notation",Modern Music, Vol. 4, No. 3.
ARTICLES:
Early Notation
20th Century Notation
Computer-Related Topics
EARLY NOTATION
- Bowers, Roger.1992.Music & Letters v73, n3, August, p347(52)
Some reflection upon notation and proportion in Monteverdi's mass and vespers.
- Brainard, Paul.1992. Current Musicology n50, July-Dec, p21(26)
Proportional notation in the music of Schutz and his contemporaries in the 17th Century.
- Monelle, Raymond.1989. Comparative Literature v41, n3, Summer, p252(18)
Music notation and the poetic foot.
- Pinegar, Sandra.1993. Current Musicology n53, July, p99(10)
The seeds of notation and music paleography.
- Smith, Norman E.1990. Current Musicology n45-47, Jan-Dec, p283(22)
The notation of fractio modi.
- Treitler, Leo.1992. The Journal of Musicology v10, n2, Spring, p131(61)
The "unwritten" and "written transmission" of medieval chant and the start-up of musical notation.
Notational practice developed in medieval music to address the written tradition for chant which interacted with the unwritten vocal tradition...
- West, M.L.1994.Music & Letters v75, n2, May, p161(19)
The Babylonian musical notation and the Hurrian melodic texts.
A new way of deciphering the ancient Babylonian musical notation...
20TH CENTURY/NEW NOTATION
Brown, Earle.1986.Musical Quarterly v72, Spr, p180(22)
The notation and performance of new music.
Eggleston, Suzanne.1994.
Notes v51, n2, Dec, p657(7)
New periodicals
A list of new music periodicals covering the period Jun.-Dec. 1994. Includes aims, formats and a description of the contents of each listed periodical. Includes "Music Notation News".
Fuller, David.1989.The Journal of Musicology v7, n1, Wntr, p21(8)
Notes and inegales unjoined: defending a definition. (written-out inequalities in music notation).
Jones, David Evan.1990.Perspectives of New Music
Speech extrapolated. (includes notation)
Lependorf, Jeffrey.1989.I>Perspectives of New Music v27, n2, Summer, p232(20)
Contemporary notation for the shakuhachi: a primer for composers. (Tradition and Renewal in the Music of Japan)
Rastall, Richard.1993. Music & Letters v74, n4, Nov, p639(2)
Equal Temperament Music Notation: The Ailler-Brennink Chromatic Notation. Results and Conclusions of the Music Notation Refor by the Chroma Foundation (book reviews).
COMPUTER-RELATED TOPICS
Software Reviews: (listed by date)
- Fenno, Richard.1996. I>Macworld v13, n5, May, p81(1)
Coda Music Technology's Finale 3.51: music-notation software goes native, picks up the tempo.
- Fenno, Richard.1995. Macworld v12, n10, Oct, p79(2)
TAP Music Systems' Nightingale 2.0...is easy to learn and use and is both powerful and very fast.
- Fenno, Richard.1995.Macworld v12, n4, April, p75(1)
Opcode Systems' Overture 1.02 generates good output and is easy to learn...much simpler than high-end products such as Coda's Finale.
- Zeeuw, Anne Marie de.1995 .Notes v51, n3, March, p994(5)
Nightingale 1.4 is a music notation software developed by Temporal Acuity Products Inc. for Macintosh users. The softwareis user-friendly, has a straightforward interface ...
- Manes, Stephen.1995. The New York Times v145, Oct 17, pB7(N) pC8(L), col 1.
Voyager's Making Music multimedia CD-ROM: lets users who know nothing of musical notation create their own compositions, and ...
- (No author listed).1994.MacUser v10, n7, July, p34(1)CARTRIDGE # Magazine Collection 74K5265.
Passport Designs' MusicTime 2.0: (Brief Article)
- Alves, William.1994.>Notes v50, n3, March, p1052(3)
Coda Music Technology's Finale, ver 3.0.
The product is a significant improvement on earlier..
- Long, Ben.1994 .MacWeeK v8, n6, Feb 7, p49(2)
Passport Designs' Encore 3.0 is a professional-quality music notation program with a well-designed user interface...
- Whitney, Ross.1994.Notes v51, n1, Sept, p254(4)
Encore 3.0.7: software for Macintosh and Windows which has sophisticated MIDI and user interface capabilities and an impressive output which addresses the stringent notational needs of music educators
- Fleisher, Paul.1993.Technology & Learning v13, n7, April, p12(2)
Passport Designs' MusicTime lets young users successfully compose without knowing how to read music.
- Gruberman, Ken.1992.MacUser v8, n10, Oct, p85(2)
Mark of the Unicorn's $595 Composer's Mosaic is useful for both budding song composers and experienced music copyists.
- Kendall, Robert.1992.PC Magazine v11, n18, Oct 27, p520(2)CARTRIDGE # Magazine Collection 66E2689. Business Collection 67X4636.
Passport Design's Encore: Reviewed in "Four MIDI Software Packages Scale New Musical Heights"
- Kendall, Robert.1992.PC Magazine v11, n18, Oct 27, p519(2)CARTRIDGE # Magazine Collection 66E2688. Business Collection 67X4635.
Twelve Tone Systems' Cakewalk Professional for Windows: Reviewed in "Four MIDI Software Packages Scale New Musical Heights"
- Clouser, Charles.1991. I>Macworld v8, n12, Dec, p197(1) S
Music-notation-and-publishing system: Repertoire's Music Publisher 2.5.2.
- Kendall, Rob.1991.PC Magazine v10, n11, June 11, p490(2)CARTRIDGE # Magazine Collection 60D3003. Business Collection 59N3670.
Coda Music Software's Finale 2.0 provides powerful desktop music publishing for a reasonable price.
- Kendall, Rob.1991.PC Magazine v10, n11, June 11, p491(1)CARTRIDGE # Magazine Collection 60D3004. Business Collection 59N3671
Passport Designs Inc.'s Score: notation power at a price.
- Machrone, Bill.1991.Perspectives of New Music v28, n1, Wntr, p112(31)
also in
PC Magazine v10, n1, Jan 15, p167(2)CARTRIDGE # Magazine Collection 58B2676. Business Collection 55V2947. TOM Fiche 58B2676.
Dynaware USA Inc.'s musical sequencer program, Ballade, version 2.0 is a combination sequencer and notation program. (Cover story: best of 1990).
- Wildberger, Mel.1991.Notes v47, n3, March, p804(2)
Source Book of Proposed Music Notation Reforms. (book reviews)
books --reviews, etc
- Signell, Karl.1991.Journal of the American Musicological Society v44, n1, Spring, p136(13)
Evaluation: The Copyist III 1.51, Finale 1.1, MusicPrinter Plus 3.2, Music Writer 1.0, Personal Composer 3.3, Score 3, Theme 3.2, NoteWriter 1.0, Professional Composer 2.3, Finale 3.0.
- Congdon, David.1990.Times Educational Supplement n3883, Nov 30, pR33(1)
What's the score?: Rhapsody music notation software.
- Gruberman, Ken.1990. MacUser v6, n9, Sept, p101(3)Passport Designs NoteWriter II
- Parkinson, Kirsten L. No Date Given.MacWeek
Passport ships Encore 3.0 to notation app. (Brief Article>
- Parkinson, Kirsten L.No Date Given.MacWeek
Great Wave Software Inc.'s ConcertWare Pro (Brief Article)
- Parkinson, Kirsten L.No Date Given.MacWeek
Finale 3.0 scores with new interface, playback controls, arrangements.(Brief Article)
Other Computer-Related Topics
- Francois, Jean-Charles.Perspectives of New Music v30, n1, Wntr, p6(15)
1992.
Writing without representation, and unreadable notation. by Jean-Charles Francois.
Modern music has outgrown notation. While the computer is used to write down music with accuracy never before achieved, the range of modern sounds has surpassed the relevance of the computer...
- Blostein, Dorothea.1991.Communications of the ACM v34, n3, March, p88(12)
Also by Lippold Haken. Justification of printed music.
The use of computer systems for printing and editing sheet music has lagged behind the computerization of text because of the complexity of music notation. ..
- Hamel, Keith A.1989.
Perspectives of New Music v27, n1, Wntr, p70(14)
A design for music editing and printing software based on notational syntax. (computer music)
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