Score Reading: A Key to the Music Experience / Edition 1

by Michael Dickreiter, Reinhard G. Pauly

Overview

(Amadeus). 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574670561
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2003
Series:	Amadeus
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 8.99(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1.	Introduction	7
2.	Types of Scores	11
3.	The Look of a Score	17
	Parts, lines, brackets	17
	How to determine a score's makeup or instrumentation	20
	Organization of a score page	23
	Notation of individual instruments	31
	Transposing instruments	34
	Title pages: "Opus" and other work-numbering systems	39
	Partial scores	40
4.	Scores and Their History	41
	The first scores	41
	Renaissance and baroque scores	46
	Scores of the classic and romantic periods	51
5.	Reading a Score--Hearing a Score	65
	Methods for following a score	66
	Following a single part	67
	Chamber music scores	70
	Counting beats and measures	73
	Synchronizing image and sound	76
	Musical reading of a score	82
6.	Examples for Practicing Score Reading	91
	"Erbarme dich, mein Gott" (Have mercy, O Lord), Aria No. 47 from The Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244, Part II	92
	Romanze in F Major, Op. 50, No. 2, for violin and orchestra	101
	Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, for piano, the "Minute Waltz"	119
	Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Serenade in G Major, K. 525, fourth movement	124
	Quintet in A Major for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass, "The Trout," fourth movement	133
	Symphony in C Major, K. 551, "Jupiter," excerpt from the first movement	150
	Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, excerpt from the first movement	162
	Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98, excerpt from the first movement	176
	Prelude to Tristan and Isolde	200
	The Firebird, ballet suite, 1945, excerpt	220
	A few scores recommended for further practice	243
7.	Orchestras and Conductors	245
	Numbers and types of instruments	248
	Seating plans	251
	Spatial effects	254
	The conductor	256
	Conducting technique	260
8.	Instrumentation and Score Reading: Suggestions for Further Reading	263

Editorial Reviews

Reading musical scores offers another way of experiencing the joy of music. Here, Dickreiter (Sch. for Radio Technique, Nuremberg, Germany) provides "the knowledge required for following a score while listening and, before listening, to obtain from the score all necessary information about the orchestra's makeup and the music's general formal arrangement." Chapter topics include the physical look of a score and ways to follow a score. The technical is overlaid with informative and easy-to-read history lessons on scores, orchestras, and conductors. Musical examples appear throughout, and there is an entire chapter of examples for practicing score reading. In formal music instruction settings, teachers will want to stick with Gordon Jacob's classic How To Read a Score (1944), but the amateur listener-musician will find both Dickreiter's writing and Pauly's translation fluent. Recommended for public libraries.--Janet Brewer, Murray State Univ., KY Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Offers knowledge required to read complex musical scores, with clear, accessible techniques for identifying and isolating the essential parts. Explains various types of scores and their uses, and details visual appearances of various kinds of notation. Exercises using excerpts of simple and difficult scores encourage students to develop reading skills. Dickreiter teaches at the School for Radio Technique, Nuremberg. Pauly is professor emeritus at Lewis and Clark College. Published in 1983 and 1997 as ssel zum Erlebnis Musik/>, by Schott Musik International, Mainz. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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