Hello Philippe, Bruys, Han-Wen and list, thanks to you, making me look at this book, I ordered it from amazon. (If someone is a good person and wants to order at his tiny local book-store ;-) Elaine Gould, "Behind Bars", faber music, ISBN 978-0-571-51456-4, Jan 2011) The book arrived, while I was at Frankfurt Musikmesse, but since yesterday I am reading every free minute. This post can't and won't be a complete review - well, look at Bruys and Han-Wens posts - but a "first look at"-recommendation. In this short time, it answered some specific questions of mine or gave advice, so to me it is usable as a handbook/reference and seems to be quite "complete". I ordered a (german) book on this topic, but that is not in stock right now - so this book fills this gap really good. This post is also a "thank you" for making me taking note of this book!
Best regards, Jan-Peter Am 03.04.2011 um 03:24 schrieb bruys .: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: bruys . <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:00 AM > Subject: Re: Beyond bars, book by Elaine Gould > To: flup2 <[email protected]> > > > Dear Philippe, > Behind Bars is published by Faber Music (Elaine Gould is an editor > with Faber), so it is more likely to be available with a print music > supplier than a book shop. I just happened to find it on the internet, > and it made me interested in really getting to grips with Lilypond. I > haven't read Kurt Stone, but I have read Gardner Read. In comparison > to Gardner Read, I'd say Elaine Gould is more precise about > type-setting details. For instance, she seems to spend more time on > alignment of various figures, whereas Read concentrates more on the > notation alone. For instance, for brackets over a triplet, she shows > them going from the edge of the notehead; whereas Read shows them > going from the middle of the notehead or from the stem of a beamed > group. Elaine Gould is explicit about placement, Gardner Read not. It > is a more recent book, so it has the benefit of hind-sight. Her > perspective is one of an editor who needs to point out corrections to > the way of music has been set, whereas Gardner Read is more from the > perspective of a composer who needs to pick the most effective way of > writing music (one that performers will understand). > I definitely recommend this book, to anyone interested in the subject. > Regards, > bruys > > On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:54 PM, flup2 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> In a recent message, I discovered the reference to Elaine Gould's book >> "Beyond Bars". I never read about it before (I only knew Gardner Read and >> Kurt Stone books) and would like to know more about it from people who own >> and use it. >> >> Is it more complete than Read and Stone, are some aspects different from >> rules followed by Lilypond ? >> >> In other words, is that book interesting when owning one of its predecessors >> ? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Philippe >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://old.nabble.com/Beyond-bars%2C-book-by-Elaine-Gould-tp31301350p31301350.html >> Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
