Re: Beyond bars, book by Elaine Gould

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

Hello Philippe, Bruys, Han-Wen and list,

thanks to you, making me look at this book, I ordered it from amazon. (If 
someone is a good person and wants to order at his tiny local book-store ;-) 
Elaine Gould, "Behind Bars", faber music, ISBN 978-0-571-51456-4, Jan 2011)
The book arrived, while I was at Frankfurt Musikmesse, but since yesterday I am 
reading every free minute. This post can't and won't be a complete review - 
well, look at Bruys and Han-Wens posts - but a "first look at"-recommendation.
In this short time, it answered some specific questions of mine or gave advice, 
so to me it is usable as a handbook/reference and seems to be quite "complete".
I ordered a (german) book on this topic, but that is not in stock right now - 
so this book fills this gap really good.
This post is also a "thank you" for making me taking note of this book!

Best regards,
Jan-Peter

Am 03.04.2011 um 03:24 schrieb bruys .:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: bruys . <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:00 AM
> Subject: Re: Beyond bars, book by Elaine Gould
> To: flup2 <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> Dear Philippe,
> Behind Bars is published by Faber Music (Elaine Gould is an editor
> with Faber), so it is more likely to be available with a print music
> supplier than a book shop. I just happened to find it on the internet,
> and it made me interested in really getting to grips with Lilypond. I
> haven't read Kurt Stone, but I have read Gardner Read. In comparison
> to Gardner Read, I'd say Elaine Gould is more precise about
> type-setting details. For instance, she seems to spend more time on
> alignment of various figures, whereas Read concentrates more on the
> notation alone. For instance, for brackets over a triplet, she shows
> them going from the edge of the notehead; whereas Read shows them
> going from the middle of the notehead or from the stem of a beamed
> group. Elaine Gould is explicit about placement, Gardner Read not. It
> is a more recent book, so it has the benefit of hind-sight. Her
> perspective is one of an editor who needs to point out corrections to
> the way of music has been set, whereas Gardner Read is more from the
> perspective of a composer who needs to pick the most effective way of
> writing music (one that performers will understand).
> I definitely recommend this book, to anyone interested in the subject.
> Regards,
> bruys
> 
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:54 PM, flup2 <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> In a recent message, I discovered the reference to Elaine Gould's book
>> "Beyond Bars". I never read about it before (I only knew Gardner Read and
>> Kurt Stone books) and would like to know more about it from people who own
>> and use it.
>> 
>> Is it more complete than Read and Stone, are some aspects different from
>> rules followed by Lilypond ?
>> 
>> In other words, is that book interesting when owning one of its predecessors
>> ?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Philippe
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