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Other sites worth visiting...
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We propose below a series of
links, books or tools dealing with music-engraving. This
list is not exhaustive : we just mentionned the item we
have preferred.
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General
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MakeMusic
is the site of the creators of Finale®. As
well as updates, and the latest news, it offers
links toward other sites for fonts, plug-ins, as
well as publishers and associations,
etc.
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Finale
Ressource Page of RPM
Seattle is an excellent collection of resources
and links for Finale®.
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Finale
Productivity Tips is
a site developed by Jari Williamson. He offers
tricks and methods not listed in the Finale®
manual, of interest to beginners and to
experienced users. He has a very full section on
the plug-ins that are available for
Finale®.
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Plug-ins for
Finale®
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TGTools
by Tobias Giesen. Far and away the most complete
and useful collection of plug-ins, including:
Spacing Utilities, Lyrics Utilities, Mass Create
Slurs, Automatic Tremolo, Process Extracted
Parts, Secondary Beam BreakerNew features are
added regularly. An absolute must for
Finale® users.
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Plug-ins
page by Robert
Paterson. Another good site, offering tools such
as: Tuplet Mover, Staff Sets, and Paterson
Beams. The site also offers plenty of useful
advice for anyone interested in programming
plug-ins.
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Phil
Aker offers several
useful plug-ins, including: Classic
Transposition, Position Notes, Positions Rests,
Text Editor and Playback Utilities. The site is
regularly updated.
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Forza
plug-ins includes
Dialog Enhancer and Easy MIDI. As yet, only
available for PC
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Music
notation
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Colorado
College's Big Site of Music Notation and
Engraving. A very useful site,
offering a very full treatment of all the conventions of
music-setting.
Music
notation links, which offers
links to other sites which deal with standard music
notation, as well as ancient, Byzantine and medieval
music notation.
Reference
guide to music notation. Sets
out the basic conventions of musical theory and
music-setting in an agreeable and straightforward
way.
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Books on music
notation
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Music
notation in theXXth
century - Kurt Stone,
(W.W. Norton, New York, 1980). Offers a vast
amount of information about notation from
traditional through contemporary.
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Standard
music engraving
practice, (Music
Publisher's Association, 1966). More of a
booklet than a book, but which offers the
standard practices of music engraving for
publishers.
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Essential
dictionary of music
notation - Tom Gerou
et Linda Lusk, (Alfred Publishing, Los Angeles,
1996). A handy and easy-to-use reference book
presenting the conventions of
music-setting.
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The
Norton manual of music
notation - George
Heussenstamm, (W.W. Norton, New York, 1987). A
useful book for beginners. Designed principally
for handwritten manuscripts.
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Music
notation (theory and technique for music
notation) - Mark
McGrain (Berklee Music Press, 1991) An excellent
training manual for handwritten music-setting.
Very useful for learning the most important
conventions in presenting music notation on the
page.
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Music
Notation - Gardner
Read (2nd edition, Taplinger Publishing Co. -
1995). The reference work dealing with music
notation. It covers the history and development
of notation, describes all elements of notation
and provides guidance for producing manuscripts,
scores and parts.
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Books
on instrumentation
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Handbook
of Instrumentation -
Andrew Stiller (2nd Edition, Kallisti Music
Press - 1994) The ultimate guide to musical
instruments, covering woodwinds, brass, the
voice, percussion, keyboards, strings,
electronics, early winds & percussion and
early keyboards & strings.
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Books
on traditional music engraving
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The
art of music engraving and
processing,
3rd edition - Ted Ross, (Hansen Books,
Miami, 1987). The most comprehensive book
available on the subject. Particularly useful
for anyone who does music-setting on computer,
because it deals with printed (as against
handwritten) music scores.
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Music
engraving and printing : historical and
tecnhical treatise -
William Gamble (Reprint Edition. Ayer Company
Publishing, North Stratford, NH, 2000). A
historical presentation of music engraving, and
the methods of engraving and music-setting
before computerization.
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Die
Praxis des
Notengraphikers -
Herbert Chlapik (Doblinger, Wien) Detailed
description of the process of music engraving.
Profusely illustrated with music examples
showing spacing, layout and alignment of
symbols.
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Books on music
notation softwares
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Music
notation by computer
- Donald Byrd (PhD
thesis, Department of Computer Science, Indiana
University, 1984) A fascinating book, offering a
comprehensive analysis of computer-assisted
music-setting. Offers numerous examples and
describes how a music-setting program
works.
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Finale
- An easy guide to music
notation, 1st edition
- Rudolph and Leonard. (Berklee Music Press,
2001). Designed for both beginners and
experienced users of Finale®. The book
offers a step-by-step training program to what
can be done with Finale®. Book and
CD.
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Music
engraving today, 1st
edition - Steve Powell (Brichtmark, New York,
2002). Designed for anybody who wants to produce
music scores that are clear and easy to read.
Recommended for Finale® and Sibelius®
users
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The
Finale primer - Mastering the art of music
notation with Finale,
2nd edition - Bill Purse. (Miller Freeman Books,
San Francisco, 2000). A very useful book for
those beginning to use Finale®.
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Finale
Power! - Mark Johnson
(1st Edition. Muska & Lipman - 2002). Fot
beginners or a regular users. Contains
step-by-step tutorials and a CD-ROM with
supplemental third-party plug-ins, music
examples and links.
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