Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 482 pages
- Published by: Taplinger Publishing Company
- Edition: 2nd Edition May 1979
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0800854535
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0800854539
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Reader Reviews
I had two courses with Prof. Read in the mid-1960's, and of course his notation book was required for both. He was everything the negative reviewers say: pretentious, overbearing, and condescending. He was also a fantastic teacher, meticulous and extremely demanding. In those days, remember, there were no desktop computers and software to write and print music. Everything, even printed scores, was hand-written and -engraved. Part of the music school experience was learning to write manuscript correctly, legibly and uniformly. In this Prof. Read and his book were indispensable. Interestingly, in this age when textbook prices are rising faster than the price of gasoline, this edition of Prof. Read's book is *half* the price of the original trade paperback that i bought almost forty years ago. Are there better books now? Probably. And in this computer age, there's a question whether books like this are even necessary. But this is a classic of its kind, and should be on every music student's, composer's, arranger's and copyist's (if ther are any left) desk. efg
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