How to Write Music (Classic Reprint): Musical Orthography - Couverture souple

Harris, Clement Antrobus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333794355 ISBN 13 : 9781333794354

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Master the craft of music notation with practical guidance that helps you go from planning a score to clean, legible notation. This edition focuses on the hands-on details often left out of primers, from choosing the right paper to writing clear bar-lines, stems, and clefs.

Clear, step-by-step guidance frames the scope of music writing as a practical skill. Learn how to map a full score on the page, place notes and rests correctly, and apply rules that keep multiple parts readable. The text emphasizes accuracy, neatness, and the craft of translating sound into readable notation, with plenty of examples and explained decisions.

- How to choose the right music paper and formats for different scores
- The correct way to draw score lines, bar-lines, and clefs
- Stem directions, note grouping, and handling multi-part notation
- Careful use of dots, accidentals, and rests to avoid confusion

Ideal for readers who want concrete, hands-on instruction in writing music by hand, and for those studying advanced theoretical conventions that influence engraving today.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is reasonable to expect that a musician shall be at least an accurate and legible writer as well as a reader of the language of his Art. The immense increase in the amount of music published, and its cheapness, seem rather to have increased than decreased this necessity, for they have vastly multiplied activity in the Art. If they have not intensified the necessity for music-writing, they have increased the number of those by whom the necessity is felt. Intelligent knowledge of Notation is the more necessary inasmuch as music writing is in only a comparatively few cases mere copying. Even when writing from a copy, some alteration is frequently necessary, as will be shown in the following pages, requiring independent knowledge of the subject on the part of the copyist. Yet many musicians, thoroughly competent as performers, cannot write a measure of music without bringing a smile to the lips of the initiated. Many performers will play or sing a note at sight without hesitation, which, asked to write, they will first falter over and then bungle—at least by writing it at the wrong octave. The admirable working of theoretical examination papers is sometimes in ridiculous contrast with the puerility of the writing. Psychologists would probably say that this was because conceptual action is a higher mental function than perceptual: in other words, that recollection is harder than recognition. The remedy is simple. Recognition must be developed till it becomes recollection: the writing of music must be taught concurrently with the reading of it.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333794355
• ISBN 13: 9781333794354
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 62
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