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Music Notation (Berklee Guide) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Mcgrain
Publisher: Berklee Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 299374
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0793508479
Dewey Decimal Number: 338
UPC: 073999493993
EAN: 9780793508471
ASIN: 0793508479
Publication Date: July 1, 1990
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Product Description
Learn the essentials of music notation, from fundamental pitch and rhythm placement to intricate meter and voicing alignments. This book also covers the correct way to subdivide rhythms and notate complex articulations and dynamics. An excellent resource for both written and computer notation software!
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 Strunk and White of Music Notation October 4, 2008
This is one of those books you wish you came across twenty years earlier. I am not a professionally trained musician, but have been playing music for nearly 28 years, now, and reading (but not writing) music for the past 15 years. Just like a semi-literate native language speaker who kind of knows what's right and wrong by intuition, but still makes a lot of grammar and style mistakes when writing, I found that I could distinguish well written music from that poorly written, but couldn't tell you why.
Recently I was faced with learning five or six tunes and had to make charts for them. Enter this book. It's as thorough a grounding that you will get in terms of the grammar of writing music. The philosophy is that written music is a graphical language, with agreed upon grammar, style, and usage. These rules are spelled out wonderfully in this text, and ample examples of both good and bad practices are shown.
Having used the book as a guide in preparing these recent charts, I have noticed an immediate improvment in my copying skills. Higly recommended to both students and professionals alike.
I hope this book continues to find a place on the bookshelf of musicians everywhere. June 7, 2008
Excellent source for any notation questions you may have. I took Mark's class at Berklee in about 1991. Great. "A customer" does Mark and his excellent book a disservice. I enjoyed your class Mark... you were tough but fair. The best kind of teacher.
One thing that stuck in my head from your class had nothing to do with notation. You said words to the effect, that as students of music we should strive for greatness not only in music but in our relationships with others. Music may be of some comfort in our lives but it's our friends and family we all should remember to make time for. You cynical Sage... HA!
Last I heard about you Mark you were in New Orleans (Saw the Globe article about musicians and health care in New Orleans). Hope your rockin' good n' strong wherever you may be.
Peace, Harry Fix
Music Notation (Berklee Guide) April 24, 2008
I have found that this book is very beneficial to me for my bachelor in music. Its has helped me alot
 Excellent and a must read April 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent book to start with. Altough it is not comprehensive and the exercises get you nothing more than started it covers all the basics well.
Concise, comprehensive technical guide to standard notation November 24, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Mark McGrain's book is the ideal reference for the musician needing access to the rules of standard musical notation in exact detail. McGrain thoroughly describes the fundamentals of contemporary notation, progressing carefully from the basics into advanced techniques, giving helpful and well-chosen illustrations of every rule along the way. Most critically, the hierarchy of rules and exceptions is laid out in plain English: this is as easy to follow as it gets.
Topics covered include: clefs, note-heads, rests, stem length/direction, the logic of accidentals, barlines, time signatures, tempo markings, flags and beams, placement of ties, holds and pauses, repeats, chord symbols, divisi parts, dynamic markings, articulation marks, ornaments, score layout, instrumental transpositions, and then some. The table of contents is nicely organized so as to allow one to quickly & easily find a specific rule in question while one is writing.
This is the kind of guide we expect to be logical, consistent, thorough, and concise, so that our creativity doesn't get delayed by technical questions for too long; this book succeeds admirably on all counts. Indispensable for the working composer/musician. Highly recommended for its practical utility.
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