Score Reading: Time-honored Principles and New Approaches is a book for those aspiring to make progress in score reading, starting from any level of skill. It can serve as a textbook for a university course in score reading, a reference for professional conductors wishing to expand their musical perspective, or a resource for coaches and accompanists who need to decipher at a glance whatever music is put before them. It can even be useful for singers and players of treble instruments who want to learn how to read bass clef in a short time. In other words, the book was written for all those who want to discover exactly what is in the notes in order to translate them into living sound. The book offers a wealth of music examples and is presented in a workbook format, allowing for hands-on use at the keyboard. The contents include a comprehensive and absolutely reliable method of transposition, techniques for incorporating harmonic understanding into score reading (using either the basso continuo symbols of baroque music or the modern chord symbols of pop and jazz), and ways to acquire insight into music as the interplay of its vertical and horizontal dimensions. Although the book focuses on exact reading, it also explores improvisation as an element of proficient score reading that makes playing music a creative (and enjoyable!) act.
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