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Music Notation.
Crescendo books, 1969.
Heussenstamm writes: An extremely thorough exploration of musical notation
[..].
- A Barksdale.
The Printed Note: 500 Years of Music Printing and Engraving.
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, January 1957.
`The exhibition "The Printed Note" attempts to show the various processes used
since the second of the 15th century for reproducing music mechanically ...
'. The illustration mostly feature ancient music.
- Laszlo Boehm.
Modern Music Notation.
G. Schirmer, Inc., New York, 1961.
Heussenstamm writes: A handy compact reference book in basic notation.
- H. Elliot
Button.
System in Musical Notation.
Novello and co., London, 1920.
- Herbert Chlapik.
Die Praxis des Notengraphikers.
Doblinger, 1987.
An clearly written book for the casually interested reader. It shows some of
the conventions and difficulties in printing music HWN.
- Anthony Donato.
Preparing Music Manuscript.
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1963.
- Donemus.
Uitgeven van muziek.
Donemus Amsterdam, 1900.
- Inc. G. Schirmer.
The G. Schirmer Manual of Style and Usage.
The G. Schirmer Publications Department, New York, 1990.
- William Gamble.
Music Engraving and printing. Historical and Technical Treatise.
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, ltd., 1923.
This pattriotic book was an attempt to promote and help British music
engravers. It is somewhat similar to Hader's book [Hader, 1948] in scope and
style, but Gamble focuses more on technical details (Which French punch
cutters are worth buying from, etc.), and does not treat typographical
details, such as optical illusions. It is available as reprint from Da Capo
Press, New York (1971).
- Tom Gerou and Linda Lusk.
Essential Dictionary of Music Notation.
Alfred Publishing, Van Nuys CA, 1996.
A concise, alphabetically ordered list of typesetting and music (notation)
issues with a rather simplistic attitude but in most cases "good-enough"
answers JCN.
- 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 some compactly formulated
rules on musical orthography. Out of print.
- George Heussenstamm.
The Norton Manual of Music Notation.
Norton, New York, 1987.
Hands-on instruction book for copying (ie. handwriting) music. Fairly complete.
HWN.
- Harold Johnson.
How to write music manuscript.
Carl Fischer, Inc., New York, 1946.
- Erdhard Karkoshka.
Notation in New Music; a critical guide to interpretation and
realisation.
Praeger Publishers, New York, 1972.
(Out of print).
- mpa.
Standard music notation specifications for computer programming., December
1996.
Pamphlet explaining some fine points in music font design HWN.
- Richard Rastall.
The Notation of Western Music: an Introduction.
J. M. Dent & Sons London, 1983.
Interesting account of the evolution and origin of common notation starting
from neumes, and ending with modern innovations HWN.
- Gardner Read.
Music Notation: a Manual of Modern Practice.
Taplinger Publishing, New York.
(Out of print) This is as close to the ``standard'' reference work for music
notation issues as one is likely to get. MB.
- Gardner Read.
Modern Rhythmic Notation.
Indiana University Press, 1978.
Sound (boring) review of the various hairy rhythmic notations used by
avant-garde composers HWN.
- Clinton Roemer.
The Art of Music Copying.
Roerick music co., Sherman Oaks (CA), 2nd edition, 1984.
Out of print. Heussenstamm writes: an instructional manual which specializes in
methods used in the commercial field.
- Glen Rosecrans.
Music Notation Primer.
Passantino, New York, 1979.
Heussenstamm writes: Limited in scope, similar to [Roemer, 1984].
- Carl A Rosenthal.
A Practical Guide to Music Notation.
MCA Music, New York, 1967.
Heussenstamm writes: Informative in terms of traditional notation. Does not
concern score preparation.
- Ted Ross.
Teach yourself the art of music engraving and processing.
Hansen House, Miami, Florida, 1987.
This is about engraving, i.e. professional typesetting. It contains directions
on good typesetting, but the sections on reproduction technicalities, how to
use pens and history are interesting. Especially the section on Music
Typewriters is amusing HWN.
- Kurt Stone.
Music Notation in the Twentieth Century.
Norton, New York, 1980.
Out of print. Heussenstamm writes: The most important book on notation in
recent years.
- Albert C. Vinci.
Fundamentals of Traditional Music Notation.
Kent State University Press, 1989.
- Helene Wanske.
Musiknotation --- Von der Syntax des Notenstichs zum EDV-gesteuerten
Notensatz.
Schott-Verlag, Mainz, 1988.
I. A very thorough overview of engraving practices of various craftsmen. It
includes detailed specs of characters, dimensions etc. II. a thorough
overview of a anonymous (by now antiquated) automated system. EDV Means
e(lektronischen) D(aten)v(erarbeitung), electronic data processing HWN.
- Maxwell Weaner and
Walter Boelke.
Standard Music Notation Practice.
Music Publisher's Association of the United States Inc, New York, 1993.
- Johannes Wolf.
Handbuch der Notationskunde.
Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipzig, 1919.
Very thorough treatment (in two volumes) of the history musical notation.