Score Reading: A Key to the Music Experience (Amadeus")

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 Partiturlesen: Ein Schlnssel zum Erlebnis Musik , by Schott Musik International, Mainz. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)