Score Reading
A Key to the Music Experience
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2003
266 pages
978-1-61774-893-6 (ISBN)
Description
Score reading provides insights into the musical structure of a work that are difficult to obtain from merely listening. Many listeners and amateurs derive great pleasure from following a performance with score in hand to help them better understand the intricacies of what they are hearing. This guide includes practice examples of increasing difficulty taken from scores of well-known works from various periods.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United States
Publishing group
Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN-13
978-1-61774-893-6 (9781617748936)
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Book
10/2000
Amadeus Press
€34.60
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Persons
Michael Dickreiter has earned a Tonmeister (sound engineer) diploma from Detmold Music Academy and a Ph.D. from Heidelberg University. He is an instructor at the School for Radio Technique in Nuremberg and the author of several books on sound recording techniques, acoustics and musical instruments.
Content
- Intro
- 2 Types Of Scores
- 3 The Look Of A Score
- Parts, Lines, Brackets
- How To Determine A Score'S Makeup Or Instrumentation
- Organization Of A Score Page
- Notation Of Individual Instruments
- Transposing Instruments
- Title Pages: "Opus" And Other Work-Numbering Systems
- Partial Scores
- 4 Scores And Their History
- The First Scores
- Renaissance And Baroque Scores
- Scores Of The Classic And Romantic Periods
- 5 Reading A Score-hearing A Score
- Methods For Following A Score
- Following A Single Part
- Chamber Music Scores
- Counting Beats And Measures
- Synchronizing Image And Sound
- Musical Reading Of A Score
- 6 Examples For Practicing Score Reading
- Johann Sebastian Bach: "Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott" (Have Mercy, O Lord), Aria No. 47 From The Passion According To St. Matthew, Bwv 244, Part II
- Ludwig Van Beethoven: Romanze In F Major, Op. 50, No. 2, For Violin And Orchestra
- Frédéric Chopin: Waltz In D-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, For Piano, The "Minute Waltz"
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Serenade In G Major, K. 525, Fourth Movement
- Franz Schubert: Quintet In A Major For Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, And Double Bass, "The Trout," Fourth Movement
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony In C Major, K. 551, "Jupiter, " Excerpt From The First Movement,
- Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 In C Minor, Op. 67, Excerpt From The First Movement
- Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 In E Minor, Op. 98, Excerpt From The First Movement
- Richard Wagner: Prelude To Tristan And Isolde
- Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird, Ballet Suite, 1945, Excerpt
- A Few Scores Recommended For Further Practice
- 7 Orchestras And Conductors
- Numbers And Types Of Instruments
- Seating Plans
- Spatial Effects
- The Conductor
- Conducting Technique
- 8 Instrumentation And Score Reading: Suggestions For Further Reading
