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A significant amount of music notation fundamentals are explored inside the compass of this book. From a consumer's standpoint, it can be difficult to obtain a large collection of musical precepts concisely packaged. Other books stop short on information detailing principles that are frequently misunderstood, misrepresented, or are otherwise difficult to express in an instruction-manual format. The intention of this book is to impart "grammatically" accurate and intelligent reasoning skills regarding these conventions. To assist in this endeavor, there are over 525 musical figures, excerpts, and examples. Most are presented from standard music literature. Many of these examples are annotated to more effectively communicate to the reader the important characteristics of the topics discussed in each chapter. This book is a must for those seeking to: Improve one's understand regarding the tenets of music notation. Better comprehend the intentions that composers were, and currently are, conveying through the use of music notation symbols and principles in their scores. Enhance one's overall "musical literacy" concerning the marks, signs, expressive terminology, nomenclature, and other characters encountered in music literature. Develop the proper skills necessary to manufacture scores from one's own compositions with accurate and intelligent representation. Recognize and correct some of the errors that music software programs continue to make."

Easy-to-follow instructions help you to create publisher-quality music notation; learn to use the tools of Finale while writing your own music and arrangements; get started immediately with hundreds of professional templates, partially completed notation files, and libraries available on the companion website (www.FINALEBOOK.com); print transposed parts from scores automatically; write standard notation, guitar tablature, drum set parts, and more with this comprehensive hands-on tutorial. Teachers can create warm-up and practice exercises; write their own compositions, arrangements and method books; and simplify parts for students. --From publisher's description.

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Excerpt from Elements of Notation and Harmony: With Fifty-Eight Exercises for Use in Public Institutions of Learning and for Self-Instruction The following compilation of the musical ele ments was prompted by the need of a book, which should contain not only the necessary definitions, rules, and explanatory examples, but likewise (and chie y) a sufficient number of exercises in the needful material of repetition, thus enabling the pupil to fix and supplement, through private application, what he had learned in the lessons. These exercises therefore form an integral part of the work, and render the same peculiarly adapted for self-instruction. No one desiring to make music intelligently can skip these exercises, especially where they have to do with scales and intervals. The arrangement of the Course of study is such, as its oral presentation in the elementary classes in theory of a musical seminary appears to demand. It is taken for granted, that a practical course of singing, or of instrumental playing, either has preceded or will accompany the present course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."