NOTATIO

Aside from books specifically on modern music, is there a more general notation reference for classical guitar? Gould's "Behind Bars" has 20 pages on the instrument, which is nice. I've heard of standard notation reference books from Read and from Ross -- do they have anything specific to guitar? Ar...

+1. Lunn's "Extended Techniques" is a dissertation; free PDF available at http://robertlunncomposer.com/Extended_ ... Guitar.pdf.

John R.

The group https://groups.io/g/wordperfectmac has two free Sheepshaver installs. Both are complete packages, ready to run. One, "WPMacApp", needs MacOS 10.10; the other, "SheepShaver-WP", needs 10.4. Both include a copy of the WordPerfect word processor, but you can ignore or delete that.

John R.

Not a lot of surprises, but the numbers are interesting.

https://composerstoolbox.com/2018/06/25 ... r-reviews/

John R.

Has anyone encountered this, written by Mark McGrain, published 1966? The emphasis on the theory of notation is interesting. Archive.org has a PDF:

https://archive.org/details/musicnotation00mark

It would be nice to find a web site showcasing old notation programs with examples of interface and output. Professional Composer / Composer's Mosaic. Igor Engraver, Personal Composer, Amadeus / Vivaldi. http://www.acadiau.ca/~gcallon/www/others.htm has others.

As an aside, Thorlaksson's arrangements are not too well-regarded by guitarists.

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This web site is impressive for the care and high quality with which its contributors notate music. Sometimes when we strive this hard, a little comic relief is in order. Here's another notation site, with plenty of illustrations, that may offer this: https://www.facebook.com/groups/165495723984913/...

The 2017 revision, with much more detail, is at:

http://mola-inc.org/article/MOLA-Guidel ... ration.pdf