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Score Reading: A Key to the Music Experience
Michael Dickreiter
Translated by Reinhard G. Pauly
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.
1-57467-056-5, 265 pp, 6 tables, 6 b/w illustrations, 5 diagrams, 54 music examples, 6 x 9", paperback, © 2000
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"An easy to follow and helpful text that is friendly to anxious amateurs."
— James Strecker, Arts Beat
"Here is the background you need to read scores."
— Donald Vroon, American Record Guide
, March/April 2002
"The technical is overlaid with informative and easy-to-read history lessons on scores, orchestras, and conductors . . . the amateur listener-musician will find both Dickreiter's writing and Pauly's translation fluent."
— Library Journal
, October 15, 2000
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