Music Notation in the Twentieth Century

A Practical Guidebook

Ranked #32 in Composition, Ranked #39 in Music Composition

In this comprehensive and definitive survey of current notation procedures, Kurt Stone has brought order to a field traditionally fraught with confusion and idiosyncrasy. He not only describes and recommends new methods for notating modern music, thereby establishing standard procedures for the present and future, but integrates them with traditional practices still in use. The result is a guide to all forms of notation used in serious music today.

Stone is undoubtedly one of the world's leading authorities on contemporary music notation and its problems. As head of...
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