Score Reading : A Key to the Music Experience

Introduction 7(4) Types of Scores 11(6) The Look of a Score 17(24) Parts, lines, brackets 17(3) How to determine a score's makeup or instrumentation 20(3) Organization of a score page 23(8) Notation of individual instruments 31(3) Transposing instruments 34(5) Title pages: ``Opus'' and other work-numbering systems 39(1) Partial scores 40(1) Scores and Their History 41(24) The first scores 41(5) Renaissance and baroque scores 46(5) Scores of the classic and romantic periods 51(14) Reading a Score---Hearing a Score 65(26) Methods for following a score 66(1) Following a single part 67(3) Chamber music scores 70(3) Counting beats and measures 73(3) Synchronizing image and sound 76(6) Musical reading of a score 82(9) Examples for Practicing Score Reading 91(154) ``Erbarme dich, mein Gott'' (Have mercy, O Lord), Aria No. 47 from The Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244, Part II 92(9) Johann Sebastian Bach Romanze in F Major, Op., 50 No. 2, for violin and orchestra 101(18) Ludwig van Beethoven Waltz in D-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, for piano, the ``Minute Waltz'' 119(5) Frederic Chopin Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Serenade in G Major, K. 525, fourth movement 124(9) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quintet in A Major for piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass, ``The Trout,'' fourth movement 133(17) Franz Schubert Symphony in C Major, K. 551, ``Jupiter,'' excerpt from the first movement 150(12) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, excerpt from the first movement 162(14) Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98, excerpt from the first movement 176(24) Johannes Brahms Prelude to Tristan and Isolde 200(20) Richard Wagner The Firebird, ballet suite, 1945, excerpt 220(23) Igor Stravinsky A few scores recommended for further practice 243(2) Orchestras and Conductors 245(18) Numbers and types of instruments 248(3) Seating plans 251(3) Spatial effects 254(2) The conductor 256(4) Conducting technique 260(3) Instrumentation and Score Reading: Suggestions for Further Reading 263