Berklee Contemporary Music Notation
Sept 2017 · Hal Leonard Corporation
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(Berklee Guide). Learn the nuances of music notation, and create professional looking scores. This reference presents a comprehensive look at contemporary music notation. You will learn the meaning and stylistic practices for many types of notation that are currently in common use, from traditional staffs to lead sheets to guitar tablature. It discusses hundreds of notation symbols, as well as general guidelines for writing music. Berklee College of Music brings together teachers and students from all over the world, and we use notation in a great variety of ways. This book presents our perspectives on notation: what we have found to be the most commonly used practices in today's music industry, and what seems to be serving our community best. It includes a foreword by Matthew Nicholl, who was a long-time chair of Berklee's Contemporary Writing and Production Department. Whether you find yourself in a Nashville recording studio, Hollywood sound stage, grand concert hall, worship choir loft, or elementary school auditorium, this book will help you to create readable, professional, publication-quality notation. Beyond understanding the standard rules and definitions, you will learn to make appropriate choices for your own work, and generally how to achieve clarity and consistency in your notation so that it best serves your music.
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20 December 2020
5 stars for the book. 1 star for Google Play. Berklee Contemporary Music Notation is an incredible resource. It is perfect for anybody looking to make commercial charts, part scores, or classically notated scores. Jonathan Feist does a masterful job covering many aspects of music notation. That said, the book displays very strangely via Google Play as of late. None of my other Google Play books display in such a manner. For some reason, they recently added a "dark theme" and a "light theme" now. I can't stand it. The dark theme is completely unreadable. The light theme makes all of the figures in the book stand out, which is immensely distracting. I highly prefer the old way that it displayed. Google has a tendency to continuously update everything, even when it is working just fine. I appreciate how hard their programmers and designers work, but I wish the executives behind these decisions would just slow down. Not everything needs to be updated with such frequency. Perhaps this isn't a Google thing and it's the publisher? I don't know. All I know is that I really hate reading this book via Google Play now, and that I'll probably buy the hard cover print edition. It's really frustrating because reference this book several times a month and I ask all of my students to buy it.
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