At 3:49 PM -0400 6/22/02, David H. Bailey wrote: >Anything I can think of for materials is going to be a real >challenge for a head-strong student. > >I can think of a few books to assign him and tell him to call you >with any questions: > >1) Gardner Read's Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice; >2) Andrew Stiller's Handbook of Instrumentation; >3) Ted Ross's Teach Yourself the Art of Music Engraving and Processing; >4) Kurt Stone's Music Notation in the Twentieth Century >5) George Heussenstam's Norton Manual of Music Notation >
I own all of these, except the Ross (which I want to look for... it sounds very useful) and have purchased the Norton Manual and Gardner Read for my student as well. He will use them, eventually. But as you point out later in your post, that mountain of information is humbling. It's part of the way I got him to realize how much he needed to learn, how far back he has to go, if he is serious about learning all this. You said: "It is amazing the amount of music theory one learns simply by studying notation." So true. Anything he has learned in this venture is pretty much entirely from slogging through the notation and fixing everything. Thanks very much for the tips! Linda Worsley -- Hear the music at: http://www.ganymuse.com/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
