Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide To Music Notation by Elaine Gould

Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide To Music Notation by Elaine Gould

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.

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 colossusIt’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 you.

With this book by your side any chance of inaccurate, lazy or impractical notation becomes quite impossible. But it’s not only a useful book, it’s also a fascinating one, and it’s going to become my bedside reading for many months to come.

I couldn’t begin to list the areas that it covers: there are far too many of them. As a clarinettist I headed straight for the woodwind techniques section and learned lots on multiphonics, harmonics and how to note unusual modern performance practice ideas. Each area is accompanied by appropriate and generous musical examples from the widest of repertoires – there are evidently over 1,500 examples.

Simon Rattle, in his munificient introduction, rightly calls this a reference for musicians for decades to come. He also describes the book as part of the living texture of music itself rather than a book of dry rules. He’s right.

Music Teacher Magazine, April 2011

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 the most highly respected music editors currently working in the field.

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ISBN 13	9780571514564
ISBN 10	0571514561
Title	Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide To Music Notation
Author	Elaine Gould
Series	Faber Edition Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Faber Music Ltd
Year published	2011-01-20
Number of pages	704
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