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 practical music notation with a clear, hands-on approach.

Learn how to choose the right paper, set up staves, and lay out bar-lines for clean, readable scores. This guide covers the foundations of notation in a practical, workmanlike way. It explains how to plan page layout, place clefs and stems, and handle common formatting questions so your scores look consistent and easy to read.

• How to select paper that fits the number of staves in your score.
• How to rule score lines and place bar-lines accurately across staves.
• Rules for clefs, stem directions, and multi-part writing on one or more staves.
• Practical tips on rhythm notation, dots, rests, and accidentals to avoid clutter.

Ideal for musicians, composers, students, and instructors seeking a calm, methodical, how-to approach to music notation.

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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