2 % TITLE=The engraving bibliography
3 % AUTHOR=Han-Wen Nienhuys
8 author = {Richard Rastall},
10 title = {The Notation of Western Music: an
12 publisher = {J. M. Dent \6& Sons London},
22 comment = {Interesting account of the evolution and origin of common notation starting from neumes, and ending with modern innovations HWN},
28 title = {Teach yourself the art of music engraving and processing},
29 publisher = {Hansen House},
38 comment = {This is about engraving, i.e. professional typesetting. It contains
39 directions on good typesetting, but the sections on reproduction
40 technicalities, how to use pens and history are interesting.
41 Especially the section on Music Typewriters is amusing HWN},
46 author = {Dorothea Blostein and Lippold Haken},
47 title = {The Lime Music Editor: A Diagram Editor Involving Complex
49 journal = {Software Practice and Experience},
58 comment = {A description of various conversions, decisions and issues relating to this interactive editor HWN},
64 comment = {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},
66 title = {Musiknotation --- Von der Syntax des Notenstichs zum EDV-gesteuerten Notensatz},
67 author = {Helene Wanske},
68 publisher = {Schott-Verlag},
70 isbn = {ISBN 3-7957-2886-x},
97 title = {Standard Music Notation Practice},
98 author = {Maxwell Weaner and Walter Boelke},
99 totalentry = {revised edition by Arnold Broido and Daniel Dorff.},
100 publisher = { Music Publisher's Association of the United States Inc},
107 comment = {Sound (boring) review of the various hairy rhythmic notations used by avant-garde composers HWN},
109 title = {Modern Rhythmic Notation},
110 author = {Gardner Read},
111 publisher = {Indiana University Press},
116 comment = {This is as close to the ``standard'' reference work for music notation issues as one is likely to get. MB},
117 title = {Music Notation: a Manual of Modern Practice},
118 author = {Gardner Read},
119 totalentry = {(2nd edition)},
120 publisher ={Taplinger Publishing},
122 note = { (Out of print)},
145 title = {Aus der Werkstatt eines Notenstechers},
146 author = {Karl Hader},
147 publisher = {Waldheim--Eberle Verlag},
150 comment = {Hader was the chief-engraver of the Waldheim-Eberle music
151 publishers. This book contains the most important rules on engraving
152 (according to [Chlapik])},
159 comment = {Pamphlet explaining some fine points in music font design HWN},
161 title = {Standard music notation specifications for computer programming. },
167 comment = {Rules on formatting music formulated for use in computers. Mainly distilled from [Ross] HWN},
169 title = {Music Formatting Guidelines,},
171 note={Technical Report OSU-CISRC-3/88-TR10},
172 institution ={Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University},
179 title = {Music Notation by Computer},
180 author = {Donald Byrd},
181 institution = {Dissertation Indiana University},
187 title = {A System for Music Printing by Computer},
188 author = {Donald Byrd},
189 journal = {Computers and the Humanities},
196 comment = {If I remember correctly, this was concerned more with an input language than with the typography. SP},
198 title = {Editing and Printing Music by Computer},
199 author = {Leland Smith},
200 totalentry = {Journal of Music Theory},
208 title = {A Computer-Oriented System for Music Printing},
209 author = {David A Gomberg},
210 school = {Washington University},
215 comment = {Annual editions since 1985, many containing surveys of music typesetting technology. SP},
216 title = {Directory of Computer Assisted Research in Musicology},
217 author = {Walter B Hewlett. and Eleanor Selfridge-Field},
218 totalentry = {Menlo Park, CA: Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities},
223 title = {A Computer-oriented System for Music Printing},
224 author = {David A. Gomberg; },
226 journal = {Computers and the Humanities},
233 comment = {Algorithm for generating spacing in one line of (polyphonic) music, tailored for use with MusiCopy. LilyPond uses a variant of it (as of pl 76) HWN},
235 title = {Spacing a Line of Music,},
236 author = {John S. Gourlay},
237 totalentry = {OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR35},
238 institution ={ Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University},
243 comment = {A brief overview of MusiCopy HWN},
245 title = {MusiCopy: An automated Music Formatting System},
246 author = {Allen Parish, Wael A. Hegazy, John S. Gourlay, Dean K. Roush and F. Javier Sola},
247 totalentry = {OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR29},
248 institution ={ Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University},
253 comment = {This paper discusses the development of algorithms for the formatting of musical scores (from abstract). It also appeared at PROTEXT III, Ireland 1986},
255 title = {Computer Formatting of Music,},
256 author = {John S. Gourlay, A. Parrish, D. Roush, F. Sola, Y. Tien},
257 totalentry = {OSU-CISRC-2/87-TR3},
258 institution ={Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University},
263 comment = {Describes the "parser" which converts MusiCopy MDL to MusiCopy Simultaneities & columns HWN},
265 title = {On the Implementation of the MusiCopy Language Processor,},
266 author = {Wael A. Hegazy},
267 number = { OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR34},
268 institution={ Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University},
273 comment = {This generalizes TeX's breaking algorithm to music. It also appeared in Document Manipulation and Typography, J.C. van Vliet (ed) 1988. HWN},
275 title = {Optimal line breaking in music},
276 author = {Wael A. Hegazy and John S. Gourlay},
277 totalentry = { OSU-CISRC-8/87-TR33},
278 institution={Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, },
283 comment = {User manual of MusiCopy. Includes an impressive example piece. HWN},
285 title = {Using MusiCopy},
286 author = {Dean K. Roush},
287 totalentry = { OSU-CISRC-18/87-TR31},
288 institution={ Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University},
293 comment = {Placement of balls, stems, dots which occur at the same moment ("Simultaneity") HWN},
295 title = {Computer Formatting of Musical Simultaneities,},
296 author = {A. Parrish and John S. Gourlay},
297 institution={ Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University},
299 totalentry = { OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR28},
304 comment = {Overview of a procedure for generating slurs HWN},
306 title = {Computer Design of Musical Slurs, Ties and Phrase Marks,},
308 institution={ Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University},
309 totalentry = { OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR32},
314 institution={ Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University},
315 comment = {Calculating beam slopes HWN},
317 title = {Design of Musical Beams,},
318 author = {F. Sola and D. Roush},
319 totalentry = { OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR30},
324 comment = {This paper describes the MusiCopy musicsetting system and an input language to go with it. HWN},
326 title = {A language for music printing},
327 author = {John. S. Gourlay},
328 journal = { Communications of the ACM},
338 comment = {A description of Lime internals (which resemble older (before 0.0.68pre) LilyPond data structures somewhat) HWN},
340 title = {The Tilia Music Representation: Extensibility, Abstraction, and Notation Contexts for the Lime Music Editor},
341 author = {Lippold Haken and Dorothea Blostein},
342 journal = { Computer Music Journal},
350 comment = {This describes an algorithm which uses springs between adjacent columns. This algorithm is a "subclass" of the LilyPond algorithm. HWN},
352 title = {A New Algorithm for Horizontal Spacing of Printed Music},
353 author = {Lippold Haken and Dorothea Blostein},
354 totalentry = {Lippold Haken and Dorothea Blostein. ``A New Algorithm for Horizontal Spacing of Printed Music'', International Computer Music Conference, Banff, Sept. 1995},
359 comment = {This paper provides a shallow overview of the algorithm used in LIME for spacing individual lines. HWN},
361 title = {Justification of Printed Music},
362 author = {Dorothea Blostein and Lippold Haken},
363 totalentry = {Communications of the ACM},
365 number={ 3},month={ March}, pages = {88-99},
370 comment = {Describes a system called MusicEase, and explains that it uses "constraints" (which go unexplained) to automatically position various elements. HWN},
372 title = {Creating Printed Music Automatically},
373 author = {Gary M. Rader},
374 journal = {Computer},
377 month={June}, pages = {61--69}},
381 comment = {Don't ask Stephen for a copy. Write to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, or to the British Library, instead. SP},
383 title = {Computer Tools for Music Information Retrieval},
384 author = {Stephen Dowland Page},
385 school ={ Dissertation University of Oxford},
389 comment = {This dutch thesis describes a simplistic (monophonic) typesetting system, and focuses on the breaking algorithm, which is taken from Hegazy & Gourlay HWN},
391 title = {Een Geautomatiseerd Systeem voor het Afdrukken van Muziek},
392 author = {Ren\'e Roelofs},
393 totalentry = {Ren\'e Roelofs. ``Een Geautomatiseerd Systeem voor het Afdrukken van Muziek'' afstudeerscriptie Bestuurlijke informatica, no 45327, Erasmus universiteit Rotterdam, 1991. (``An automated system for printing music'' Master's Thesis Managerial Computer Science.)},
399 title = {Representation and manipulation of music documents in SceX},
400 author = {Miguel Filgueiras and Jos\'e Paulo Leal},
401 journal= { Electronic Publishing},
403 number={4}, pages = {507--518},
409 comment = {A paper on a TROFF preprocessor to typeset music. The output shown is not very sophisticated, and contains some typographical atrocities HWN},
411 title = {Music --- A language for typesetting music scores},
412 author = {Eric Foxley, },
413 journal={ Software --- Practice and Experience, },
415 number={8}, pages = {485-502},
422 title = {Implementing a Symbolic Music Processing System},
423 author = {Miguel Filgueiras},
424 totalentry = {LIACC, Universidade do Porto, 1996; submitted},
428 title = {Some Music Typesetting Algorithms},
429 author = {Miguel Filgueiras},
430 totalentry = {Miguel Filgueiras. ``Some Music Typesetting Algorithms''. LIACC, Universidade do Porto, forthcoming},
435 comment = {A concise, alphabetically ordered list of typesetting and music (notation) issues with a rather simplistic attitude but in most cases "good-enough" answers JCN},
437 title = {Essential Dictionary of Music Notation},
438 author = {Tom Gerou and Linda Lusk},
439 publisher = {Alfred Publishing},
440 address ={Van Nuys CA},
441 isbn ={ ISBN 0-88284-768-6},
446 comment = {An clearly written book for the casually interested reader. It shows some of the conventions and difficulties in printing music HWN},
448 title = {Die Praxis des Notengraphikers},
449 author = {Herbert Chlapik},
450 publisher = {Doblinger},
451 isbn ={ ISBN 3-9000 035-96-2},
456 comment = {Webpages about engraving (designed with finale users in mind) (sic) HWN},
457 institution = {The University of Colorado},
458 title ={The University of Colorado Music Engraving page.},
459 url={http://obenamots.cc.colorado.edu/Musicpress/engraving.html},
467 author = {Anthony Donato},
468 title ={ Preparing Music Manuscript},
469 address ={ Englewood Cliffs, NJ},
470 publisher={Prentice-Hall},
476 title = {Uitgeven van muziek},
478 publisher= {Donemus Amsterdam},
484 title = {The Norton Manual of Music Notation},
485 author = {George Heussenstamm},
486 address= { New York},
493 title = {Notation in New Music; a critical guide to interpretation and realisation},
494 author = {Erdhard Karkoshka},
495 translator={Ruth Koenig},
496 publisher={Praeger Publishers},
498 note ={(Out of print)},
504 title = {The Art of Music Copying},
505 author = {Clinton Roemer},
506 publisher={ Roerick music co.},
507 address= { Sherman Oaks (CA)},
513 title = {Music Notation Primer},
514 author = {Glen Rosecrans},
515 publisher={Passantino},
522 title = {Music Notation in the Twentieth Century},
523 author = {Kurt Stone},
526 note ={(Out of print)},
532 comment = {This paper deals with some command-line tools for music editing and playback. It doesn't mention notation issues, but does come with the grand idea (not) of using music to monitor complex systems. Imagine your nuclear plant supervisor to use AC/DC for checking the reactor HWN},
534 title = {Unix music tools at Bellcore},
535 author = {Peter S. Langston},
536 journal={ Software --- Practice and Experience},
545 comment = {FAQ (with answers) about TAB, the ASCII variant of Tablature. HWN},
546 title = {how to read and write tab: a guide to tab notation},
547 author = {Howard Wright},
548 email={Howard.Wright@ed.ac.uk},
549 url={ http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~phacket2/guitar/tabfaq.html},
554 comment = {Specs for NIFF, a comprehensive but binary (yuk) format for notation HWN},
556 title = {NIFF6a Notation Interchange File Format},
557 author = {Cindy Grande, },
558 publisher={Grande Software Inc.},
559 url={http://www.jtauber.com/music/encoding/niff/},
564 title = {SMDL, Standard Musical Description Language},
565 url={ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/wg8/smdl/10743.pdf},
566 note={ISO/IEC DIS 10743},