Re: music engraving resources in the internet

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi Keith,

your mail has strangely wandered into another topic, fortunately i've found it :)

2010/12/25 Keith OHara <address@hidden>

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> Hello, Jan.

>  The article you pointed out earlier, by J-P Coulon, was more useful than anything I could find.

I found it very informative indeed. I wish J-P Coulon wrote something longer...

>  The handbook from the Music Publishers Association of the United States, by contrast, has some mistakes -- such as putting the key cancellation /after/ the new key signature; we in the US are not that strange, actually.

>

> On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 15:28:01 +0100, Janek Warchoł wrote:

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>> I also went to the library of Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in

>> Warsaw, but surprisingly they don't have anything much interesting

>

>  The well-engraved music itself should be useful.

That's true, but i suppose it would be hard (at least for me, i haven't seen too many scores and therefore lack big enough repository of reminiscences) to find a score containing some particular diffuculty that i'm trying to solve at the moment.

> I am a member of the closest University Library (which they allow for low dues even though I was never a student there).  

> They do have engraving textbooks, so I read Kurt Stone's book, listed in the appendix to Lilypond's Notation Reference.  

> books.google.com can help to find which libraries have a book, but they might not yet include libraries in Warsaw;

> the closest copy of Kurt Stone's book I could could find books.google was in Dresden.

That's definately too far for me :)

Thanks for your answer,

Janek