4 If you need to know more about music notation, here are some
5 interesting titles to read. The source archive includes a more
6 elaborate Bib@TeX{} bibliography of over 100 entries in
7 @file{Documentation/bibliography/}. It is also available online from
12 Harald Banter, Akkord Lexikon. Schott's S@"{o}hne
13 1987. Mainz, Germany ISBN 3-7957-2095-8
15 Comprehensive overview of commonly used chords. Suggests (and uses) a
16 unification for all different kinds of chord names.
19 Klaus Ignatzek, Die Jazzmethode f@"{u}r Klavier. Schott's S@"{o}hne
20 1995. Mainz, Germany ISBN 3-7957-5140-3
22 A tutorial introduction to playing Jazz on the piano. One of the first
23 chapters contains an overview of chords in common use for Jazz music.
28 Tom Gerou and Linda Lusk, Essential Dictionary of Music
29 Notation. Alfred Publishing, Van Nuys CA ISBN 0-88284-768-6
31 A concise, alphabetically ordered list of typesetting and music
32 (notation) issues which covers most of the normal cases.
37 Karl Hader, Aus der Werkstatt eines Notenstechers. Waldheim--Eberle
40 Hader was the chief-engraver of the Waldheim-Eberle music publishers.
41 This beautiful booklet was intended as an introduction for laymen on the
42 art of engraving. It contains a step by step, in-depth explanation of
43 how to cut and stamp music into zinc plates. It also contains a few
44 compactly formulated rules on musical orthography. This book is out of
49 Gardner Read, Music Notation: a Manual of Modern Practice.
50 Taplinger Publishing, New York (2nd edition).
52 A standard work on music notation.
56 Ted Ross, Teach yourself the art of music engraving and processing.
57 Hansen House, Miami, Florida 1987
59 This book is about music engraving, i.e. professional typesetting.
60 It contains directions on stamping, use of pens and notational
61 conventions. The sections on reproduction technicalities and history
65 The G.Schirmer/AMP Manual of Style and Usage. G.Schirmer/AMP, NY, 2001.
66 (This book can be ordered from the rental department.)
68 This is the style guide for Schirmer publications. This manual
69 specifically focuses on preparing print for publication by
70 Schirmer. As such it gives an idea of what is necessary to bring
71 printouts to publication quality.
76 Kurt Stone, Music Notation in the Twentieth Century
77 Norton, New York 1980.
79 This book describes music notation for modern serious music, but
80 starts out with a thorough overview of existing traditional notation
85 Helene Wanske, Musiknotation --- Von der Syntax des Notenstichs zum
86 EDV-gesteuerten Notensatz. Schott-Verlag, Mainz 1988. ISBN
89 A book in two parts: 1. A very thorough overview of engraving
90 practices of various craftsmen. It includes detailed specs of
91 characters, dimensions etc. 2. a thorough overview of a anonymous
92 automated system, which must be antiquated by now. EDV means
93 E(lektronischen) D(aten)v(erarbeitung), electronic data processing.