16.6 Further reading and scores of interest

This section suggests books, musical examples and other resources useful in studying contemporary musical notation.


16.6.1 Books and articles on contemporary musical notation

  • Music Notation in the Twentieth Century: A Practical Guidebook by Kurt Stone [W. W. Norton, 1980]
  • Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice by Gardner Read [Taplinger, 1979]
  • Instrumentation and Orchestration by Alfred Blatter [Schirmer, 2nd ed. 1997]


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