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Song Sheets To Software

Name: Song Sheets To Software
Author: Elizabeth C. Axford
ISBN: 9780810850279

by Elizabeth C. Axford

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Overview

This second edition of Song Sheets to Software includes completely revised and updated listings of music software, instructional media, and music-related internet web sites of use to all musicians, whether hobbyist or professional. This book is a particularly valuable resource for the private studio and classroom music teacher. Organized into five chapters, the book includes a history of printed music, information on publishing and copyright laws, software and other instructional media, Web sites for musicians, and an extensive glossary of technical terms. Newly included is information on instructional DVDs as well as book and audio CD sets produced for music instruction for everything from children's music to high-end professional recording. New sections have also been added to the software chapter, including programs available for drums and other percussion instruments. Also new to the software chapter are programs for folk and traditional instruments. The updates and revisions together make this the most complete and exhaustive resource of this kind available.

Synopsis

This second edition of Song Sheets to Software includes completely revised and updated listings of music software, instructional media, and music-related Internet Web sites of use to all musicians, whether hobbyist or professional. This book is a particularly valuable resource for the private studio and classroom music teacher.

About the Author, Elizabeth C. Axford

Elizabeth Carole Axford is the owner of Piano Press Studio in Del Mar, CA. She has been a full-time studio piano instructor since 1984. She has a Masters in Music from SDSU, and is a published songwriter and poet as well as a producer of children's music songbooks and CDs. Her music reference books are found in libraries throughout the world. She is the Regional Workshop Coordinator for the Nashville Songwriters Association International, San Diego, CA.

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Editorials

American Music Teacher

The purpose of this book is to give help to those who may or may not read music, yet want and need to know more about music. It is about learning and teaching music through stimulating new ways involving computers and the internet...This highly organized publication is a very useful resource for those of us who teach and/or perform music.

Electronic Musician

Song Sheets to Software is an eclectic sourcebook for using your computer as a music-education tool.

Reference and Research Book News

This reference lists a variety of music education resources involving computers and the Internet. Introductory chapters discuss the history of song sheets and explain the basics of music royalties and copyright laws. They are followed by information on music software, instructional media, and music-related Web sites. New to the second edition is coverage of instructional DVDs and book/audio CD sets.

Choice

A valuable desk reference for everyone involved in the music industry. Highly recommended. Public and academic libraries, and at its price, individual practitioners.

American Songwriter

...this book is truly a grand resource for those in the music business.

CHOICE

A valuable desk reference for everyone involved in the music industry. Highly recommended. Public and academic libraries, and at its price, individual practitioners.

Music Reference Services Quarterly

...it serves a much greater purpose as a resource where users can pour over it, internet connection at the ready, in order to make the discoveries for which Axford strongly advocates.