Music Notation

This exceptional book has been in print for years but has not received the attention it deserves. Its 200 pages devote an equal amount of space to text and examples, addressing every aspect of music notation with logic and clarity. The examples are neatly organized in manuscript style, but the rules they cover are just as applicable to traditional engraved notation as they are to jazz or commercial music. This book is as useful to the first-year theory student as it is to the professional arranger or composer. Four appendices make it all the more valuable as a handy reference book:  I. Names of Instruments and Voices with Abbreviations (in English, Italian, French and German); II. Score Layout; III. Instrumental Transpositions; IV. Glossary of European Musical Terms.