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*[http://icking-music-archive.org/lists/sottisier/notation.pdf Music Publishers' Association of the United States] Standard music notation practice. | *[http://icking-music-archive.org/lists/sottisier/notation.pdf Music Publishers' Association of the United States] Standard music notation practice. | ||
*[http://www.danmansmusic.com/members/notation/pdf/23135x.pdf Gerou & Lusk] Essential Dictionary of Music Notation. Complete book. | *[http://www.danmansmusic.com/members/notation/pdf/23135x.pdf Gerou & Lusk] Essential Dictionary of Music Notation. Complete book. | ||
*[ | *[https://imslp.org/wiki/Repository_of_music-notation_mistakes_(Coulon,_Jean-Pierre)| Repository of common music-notation mistakes.] | ||
*[http://www.areditions.com/media/wysiwyg/pdfs/StyleGuide.pdf A-R Editions, Inc.] Style Guide. | *[http://www.areditions.com/media/wysiwyg/pdfs/StyleGuide.pdf A-R Editions, Inc.] Style Guide. | ||
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080107080020/http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dept/mu/Musicpress Colorado College project] Archived site. | *[http://web.archive.org/web/20080107080020/http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dept/mu/Musicpress Colorado College project] Archived site. | ||
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Since all the TTA's Tunes are transcribed using the ABC notation, these are additional useful resources to contribute: | Since all the TTA's Tunes are transcribed using the ABC notation, these are additional useful resources if you want to contribute: | ||
* [http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1 The abc music standard 2.1 (Dec 2011)] | * [http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1 The abc music standard 2.1 (Dec 2011)] | ||
* [http://www.lesession.co.uk/abc/abc_notation.htm How to interpret abc music notation] | * [http://www.lesession.co.uk/abc/abc_notation.htm How to interpret abc music notation] |
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The Traditional Tune Archive Typesetting GuidelinesThe purpose of this document is to promote a minimum set of quality guidelines for newly typeset works posted to TTA. Where TTA has more than one edition posted of a work, the quality guidelines will be applied more rigorously than if there is only one edition posted. The rationale behind this is that having one edition is better than having none, but where we do have more than one, a typeset with major flaws that could cause potential problems in rehearsals and/or performances should be fixed or deleted. However, a typeset work that falls short of the guidelines will not automatically be deleted. TTA will first contact the uploader and explain what the shortfalls are, and ask that they be fixed. Producing good typesetsThere are two aspects to producing a good typeset: one is learning what constitutes good notation, and the other is learning the finer points of whatever music notation package you use, so that you can do the more complicated typesetting. One good resource would be Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice by Gardner Read. There are also smaller resources available on the web:
Reading these will be a good start on basics.
In order to understand the seeming pickiness of these rules, it might help to understand what sorts of problems badly typeset music cause for the performing musician. The fact is that if music is extremely complex – but accurate, clear, large enough, adequately spaced, with proportional rhythmic spacing, good page turns and adequate cues, musicians can sightread fairly accurately, which means less rehearsal time wasted on correcting and adding things to the part that should have been there to start with. Finally, while we acknowledge that some of the manuscript editions at TTA make for very bad reading as well, they have a very valuable place in our archive, especially autograph manuscripts from which one gleans the composer’s original intentions. First editions have similar high musicological value. Ideally, we want a combination of musicologically valuable editions, even if they are not necessarily usable in performance, combined with modern typesets that make rehearsals and performances easy in other words, we want the best of both worlds. The guidelines
Lastly, proofreading cannot be emphasized enoughEveryone should proofread thoroughly, but especially those that get typesets from recognition software or use MIDI dumps from sound files. Although these technologies can save some time, they are simply not advanced enough yet to give foolproof typesets. Ultimately, careful proofreading is for the benefit of those performing the works you write and edit, and that, in turn, benefits you. |