Re: Music notation


"Steve Latham" <llatham@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaughter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Your back! ;)
>
> Hey! What about my back?
>
> Vacation for 2 weeks. Gotta go back to work tomorrow though :-(
>
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>> I will look into them. It seems that Read's book is about 1/3rd the cost
>> though. I will probably get that one and maybe look into the other one
>> later when I make some progress.
>>
>>
>> Jon
>>
>
> Definitely - the Read is easier to come by. Like I said, I think the Stone
> is only available used. You know Jon, another good investment might be a
> Music Dictionary such as the New Oxford or similar - there's a lot of
> handy definitions, as well as information on how they're implemented -
> like if you look up Accent you'll get all kinds of information that can
> help you decide what type of accent you might need for a given situation.
> It won't be so technical, but can be a real handy reference.
>
> Also, Alfred Publishing put out this little miniature notation guide at
> one point, made my someone who was one of the long time Finale users and
> beta testers - they sent it out free with an upgrade back around upgrade
> 3.5 - 3.7 ish (for Mac) (you know, the Finale guys are always offering
> some free Mug or something). It was tiny, but was well done as far as I
> recall. There's also an online "e book" from the Music Publisher's
> Association - as far as I recall it's very sparse and goes into no great
> detail (unless only a portion of it it online???), but at least you can
> PDF it and have it for something quick.
>
> Get the Read definitely though,
> Steve


I will start looking to this stuff. My local book stores(or music stores)
don't really carry much "music theory" stuff, mainly just a lot of scores.

Thanks

Jon


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