Score reading : a key to the music experience
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- ISBN: 1574670565 (pbk.)
- Physical Description 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher Portland, OR : Amadeus Press, c2000.
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General Note: | Translation of: Partiturlesen. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 27.95 |
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Score Reading : A Key to the Music Experience
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Table of Contents
Score Reading : A Key to the Music Experience
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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1. | Introduction | p. 7 |
2. | Types of Scores | p. 11 |
3. | The Look of a Score | p. 17 |
Parts, lines, brackets | p. 17 | |
How to determine a score's makeup or instrumentation | p. 20 | |
Organization of a score page | p. 23 | |
Notation of individual instruments | p. 31 | |
Transposing instruments | p. 34 | |
Title pages: "Opus" and other work-numbering systems | p. 39 | |
Partial scores | p. 40 | |
4. | Scores and Their History | p. 41 |
The first scores | p. 41 | |
Renaissance and baroque scores | p. 46 | |
Scores of the classic and romantic periods | p. 51 | |
5. | Reading a Score--Hearing a Score | p. 65 |
Methods for following a score | p. 66 | |
Following a single part | p. 67 | |
Chamber music scores | p. 70 | |
Counting beats and measures | p. 73 | |
Synchronizing image and sound | p. 76 | |
Musical reading of a score | p. 82 | |
6. | Examples for Practicing Score Reading | p. 91 |
"Erbarme dich, mein Gott" (Have mercy, O Lord), Aria No. 47 from The Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244, Part II Johann Sebastian Bach | p. 92 | |
Romanze in F Major, Op. 50, No. 2, for violin and orchestra Ludwig van Beethoven | p. 101 | |
Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, for piano, the "Minute Waltz" Frederic Chopin | p. 119 | |
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Serenade in G Major, K. 525, fourth movement Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | p. 124 | |
Quintet in A Major for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass, "The Trout," fourth movement Franz Schubert | p. 133 | |
Symphony in C Major, K. 551, "Jupiter," excerpt from the first movement Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | p. 150 | |
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, excerpt from the first movement Ludwig van Beethoven | p. 162 | |
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98, excerpt from the first movement Johannes Brahms | p. 176 | |
Prelude to Tristan and Isolde Richad Wagner | p. 200 | |
The Firebird, ballet suite, 1945, excerpt Igor Stravinsky | p. 220 | |
A few scores recommended for further practice | p. 243 | |
7. | Orchestras and Conductors | p. 245 |
Numbers and types of instruments | p. 248 | |
Seating plans | p. 251 | |
Spatial effects | p. 254 | |
The conductor | p. 256 | |
Conducting technique | p. 260 | |
8. | Instrumentation and Score Reading: Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 263 |