@node Literature
@chapter Literature

If you need to know more about music notation, here are some interesting titles to read

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@item banter
Harald Banter, Akkord Lexikon.  Schott's S\"ohne
1987. Mainz, Germany ISBN 3-7957-2095-8

Comprehensive overview of commonly used chords.  Suggests (and uses) a
unification for all different kinds of chord names.



@item ross,
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....

@item gerou96

Tom Gerou and Linda Lusk, Essential Dictionary of Music
Notation.  Alfred Publishing, Van Nuys CA ISBN 0-88284-768-6

A concise, alphabetically ordered list of typesetting and music
(notation) issues with a rather simplistic attitude but in most cases
"good-enough" answers.


@item Stone80

Kurt Stone, Music Notation in the Twentieth Century
Norton, New York 1980.

The most important book on notation in recent years.


@item hader48,

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 a few compactly formulated rules on musical orthography. Out
of print.

@item  wanske,

1988
Helene Wanske, Musiknotation --- Von der Syntax des Notenstichs zum 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 anonymous (by now antiquated)
automated system. EDV Means e(lektronischen) D(aten)v(erarbeitung),
electronic data processing HWN.

@item read-notation,
Gardner Read,  Music Notation: a Manual of Modern Practice.
Taplinger Publishing, New York (2nd edition).

This is as close to the ``standard''
  reference work for music notation issues as one is likely to get.
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