Behind Bars
by Elaine Gould · first published 2011
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Behind Bars is the indispensable reference book for composers, arrangers, teachers and students of composition, editors, and music processors. In the most thorough and painstakingly researched book to be published since the 1980s, specialist music editor Elaine Gould provides a comprehensive grounding in notational principles. Behind Bars covers everything from basic rules, conventions and themes to complex instrumental techniques, empowering the reader to prepare music with total clarity and precision. With the advent of computer technology, it has never been more important for musicians to h
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…(fantastic book, for anybody interested not just in notations, but production, composition and capture(A/D conversion/DSP etc. Also shoudl read books by Gould and Read someday: http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Bars-Definitive-Guide-Notation/... http://davidvaldez.blogspot.com/2012/09/quarter-tones-by-don... http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/?post_type=publication&p=112
on “Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation” ↗…stuff. One book I really loved was "Signals, Sound, and Sensation" by William Hartmann which connected signal processing to human auditory processing -- I learned a ton from that book. For music notation, "Behind Bars" by Elaine Gould, which was super useful while building VexFlow.
on “Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?” ↗…projects, but LilyPond has a head start. I think one day, you'll be able to use emscripten or similar to run LilyPond in the browser. We are not there yet. [1] See, for example, https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Bars-Definitive-Guide-Notation...
on “Show HN: Hacklily – sheet music editor” ↗…complex chords. All of these are exercise based, so you can pick and choose areas to focus on. The notes are all rendered according to conventional music notation standards as per Elaine Gould's book "Behind Bars". Writing this code was not straightforward, but worth the effort as it's very flexible. Progress is tracked intelligently, i.e. accuracy and response times are recorded per note, and exercises can be…
on “Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI” ↗