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Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation

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Description for Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation Hardback. Behind Bars is the indispensable reference book for composers, arrangers, teachers and students of composition, editors, and music processors. Supported by 1,500 music examples of published scores from Bach to Xenakis, this seminal and all-encompassing guide encourages new standards of excellence and accuracy. Num Pages: 704 pages, 1,500 Musical Examples. BIC Classification: AVQ; AVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1442.

Behind Bars is the indispensable reference book for composers, arrangers, teachers and students of composition, editors, and music processors. In the most thorough and painstakingly researched book to be published since the 1980s, specialist music editor Elaine Gould provides a comprehensive grounding in notational principles.

Behind Bars covers everything from basic rules, conventions and themes to complex instrumental techniques, empowering the reader to prepare music with total clarity and precision. With the advent of computer technology, it has never been more important for musicians to have ready access to principles of best practice in this dynamic field, and this ... Read more

This seminal and all-encompassing guide encourages new standards of excellence and accuracy and, at a weighty 704 pages, it is supported by 1,500 music examples of published scores from Bach to Xenakis. This is a hardback book, with dust jacket.

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber Music Ltd
Number of pages
704
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
1448g
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571514564
SKU
V9780571514564
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-50

About Elaine Gould
Elaine Gould has been Senior New Music Editor at Faber Music since 1987, in which capacity she has edited the complex and varied scores of such composers as Oliver Knussen, Jonathan Harvey, George Benjamin, Colin Matthews and Thomas Ades. Before this she was a free-lance copyist, specialising in copying contemporary music for several leading British music publishers. She is among ... Read more

Reviews for Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation
If books, like hotels, had a star-rating system then this book would be off the top of the scale! Among the technical reference books it’s colossus. It’s a book for composers, arrangers, copyists, typesetters, and anyone who interacts in any way with music notation. If you want to know how to write it clearly and unambiguously, this book will tell ... Read more

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