## Appendix B Literature list

If you need to know more about music notation, here are some interesting titles to read. The source archive includes a more elaborate BibTeX bibliography of over 100 entries in Documentation/bibliography/. It is also available online from the website.

Ignatzek 1995
  Klaus Ignatzek, Die Jazzmethode für Klavier. Schott's Söhne 1995. Mainz, Germany ISBN 3-7957-5140-3.

  A tutorial introduction to playing Jazz on the piano. One of the first chapters contains an overview of chords in common use for Jazz music.

Gerou 1996
  Tom Gerou and Linda Lusk, Essential Dictionary of Music Notation. Alfred Publishing, Van Nuys CA ISBN 0-88284-768-6.

  A concise, alphabetically ordered list of typesetting and music (notation) issues which covers most of the normal cases.

Read 1968
  Gardner Read, Music Notation: a Manual of Modern Practice. Taplinger Publishing, New York (2nd edition).

  A standard work on music notation.

Ross 1987
  Ted Ross, Teach yourself the art of music engraving and processing. Hansen House, Miami, Florida 1987.

  This book is about music engraving, i.e. professional typesetting. It contains directions on stamping, use of pens and notational conventions. The sections on reproduction technicalities and history are also interesting.

Schirmer 2001
  The G.Schirmer/AMP Manual of Style and Usage. G.Schirmer/AMP, NY, 2001. (This book can be ordered from the rental department.)

  This manual specifically focuses on preparing print for publication by Schirmer. It discusses many details that are not in other, normal notation books. It also gives a good idea of what is necessary to bring printouts to publication quality.

Stone 1980
  Kurt Stone, Music Notation in the Twentieth Century Norton, New York 1980.

  This book describes music notation for modern serious music, but starts out with a thorough overview of existing traditional notation practices.

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