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-@node Literature
-@chapter Literature
+@node Literature list
+@appendix Literature list
 
-If you need to know more about music notation, here are some interesting titles to read
+If you need to know more about music notation, here are some
+interesting titles to read.
 
-@table @emph
-@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.
 
+@table @cite
+@item Ignatzek 1995
+Klaus Ignatzek, Die Jazzmethode f@"{u}r Klavier. Schott's S@"{o}hne
+1995. Mainz, Germany ISBN 3-7957-5140-3.
 
+A tutorial introduction to playing Jazz on the piano.  One of the first
+chapters contains an overview of chords in common use for Jazz music.
 
-@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
+@item Gerou 1996
 
 Tom Gerou and Linda Lusk, Essential Dictionary of Music
-Notation.  Alfred Publishing, Van Nuys CA ISBN 0-88284-768-6
+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.
+(notation) issues, covering most of the normal cases.
 
+@item Read 1968
+Gardner Read, Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice.
+Taplinger Publishing, New York (2nd edition).
 
-@item hader48,
+A standard work on music notation. 
 
-Karl Hader, Aus der Werkstatt eines Notenstechers. Waldheim--Eberle
-Verlag, Vienna 1948.
+@item Ross 1987
+Ted Ross, Teach yourself the art of music engraving and processing.
+Hansen House, Miami, Florida 1987.
 
+This book is about music engraving, i.e., professional typesetting.
+It contains directions on stamping, use of pens and notational
+conventions.  The sections on reproduction technicalities and history
+are also interesting.
 
-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 Schirmer 2001
+The G.Schirmer/AMP Manual of Style and Usage. G.Schirmer/AMP, NY, 2001.
+(This book can be ordered from the rental department.) 
 
-@item  wanske,
+This manual specifically focuses on preparing print for publication by
+Schirmer.  It discusses many details that are not in other, normal
+notation books.  It also gives a good idea of what is necessary to bring
+printouts to publication quality.
 
-1988
-Helene Wanske, Musiknotation --- Von der Syntax des Notenstichs zum EDV-gesteuerten Notensatz.
-Schott-Verlag, Mainz 1988.
-ISBN 3-7957-2886-x
+@item Stone 1980
 
-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.
+Kurt Stone, Music Notation in the Twentieth Century.
+Norton, New York 1980.
 
-@item read-notation,
-Gardner Read,  Music Notation: a Manual of Modern Practice.
-Taplinger Publishing, New York (2nd edition).
+This book describes music notation for modern serious music, but
+starts out with a thorough overview of existing traditional notation
+practices.
 
-This is as close to the ``standard''
-  reference work for music notation issues as one is likely to get.
 @end table
+
+The source archive includes a more elaborate Bib@TeX{} bibliography of
+over 100 entries in @file{Documentation/@/bibliography/}.  It is also
+available online from the website.