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McGrain, Mark: Music Notation: Theory & Technique

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This guide will teach you how to create professional manuscripts, and is an excellent resource for anyone doing handwritten notation or using computer notation programs.

Learn the essentials of music notation, from fundamental pitch and rhythm placement to intricate meter and voicing alignments. Learn the correct way to subdivide rhythms and notate complex articulations and dynamics.

Helpful features include:

- examples of correct and incorrect notation practices
- notation techniques used by professional engravers
- applying proper rhythmic subdivisions with notes, rests, beams, dotted rhythms, and more
- how to write chords, voicings, and divisi parts
- practice exercises after each lesson
- a glossary of european musical terms - names of instruments and voices with abbreviations
- instrumental transpositions
- score layout

McGrain, Mark Music Notation: Theory & Technique
Publisher: Berklee Press
Format: Softcover
Width: 9.0"
Length: 12.0"
216 pages

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