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@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ EDV-gesteuerten Notensatz'', Schott-Verlag, Mainz 1988.ISBN 3-7957-2886-x.
 
 [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 (by now antiquated) automated system
-called Ikarus; EDV Means e(lektronischen) D(aten)v(erarbeitung),
-electronic data processing HWN]
+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,
 revised edition by Arnold Broido and Daniel Dorff. Music Publisher's
@@ -29,14 +29,18 @@ Association of the United States Inc., 1993.
 Ted Ross. ``Teach yourself the art of music engraving and processing''
 (3rd edition). Hansen House, Miami Beach, FLorida.
 
-[This is about I<engraving> i.e. professional music typesetting, and
-includes some good spacing tables MB]
+[This is about engraving, i.e. the real thing with metal plates, but
+it also contains directions on good typesetting. It includes some good
+spacing tables HWN]
 
 Gardner Read. ``Modern Rhythmic Notation.'' Indiana University Press,
 1978.
 
-Gardner Read. ``Music Notation'' (2nd edition). Taplinger Publishing,
-New York.
+[Sound (boring) review of the various hairy rhythmic notations used by
+avant-garde composers HWN]
+
+Gardner Read. ``Music Notation: a Manual of Modern Practice'' (2nd
+edition). Taplinger Publishing, New York.
 
 [This is as close to the ``standard'' reference work for music
 notation issues as one is likely to get. MB]
@@ -57,7 +61,9 @@ D. Roush. ``Music Formatting Guidelines,'' Technical Report
 OSU-CISRC-3/88-TR10, Department of Computer and Information Science,
 The Ohio State University, 1988.
 
-[Rules on formatting music formulated for use in computers HWN]
+[Rules on formatting music formulated for use in computers. Mainly distilled
+from  [Ross] HWN]
+
 
 =head2 Notation with computers
 
@@ -230,6 +236,14 @@ some of the conventions and difficulties in printing music HWN]
 The University of Colorado Music Engraving page.
 http://obenamots.cc.colorado.edu/Musicpress/engraving.html
 
+[Webpages about engraving (designed with finale users in mind) (sic) 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]
+
 Anthony Donato. Preparing Music Manuscript. Englewood Cliffs:
 Prentice-Hall, 1963.
 
@@ -264,7 +278,11 @@ your nuclear plant supervisor to use AC/DC for checking the reactor HWN]
 
 =head2 File formats
 
-Tablature: http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~phacket2/guitar/tabfaq.html
+Howard Wright <Howard.Wright@ed.ac.uk>, how to read and write tab: a
+guide to tab notation,
+http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~phacket2/guitar/tabfaq.html
+
+[FAQ (with answers) about TAB, the ASCII variant of Tablature. HWN]
 
 Cindy Grande, NIFF6a Notation Interchange File Format.  Grande
 Software Inc., 1995.  ftp://blackbox.cartah.washington.edu/pub/,