Top scores for the book that teaches composers how to communicate

In an age of digitised music notation, Elaine Gould's Behind Bars will be a revelation for those who are not 'masters of their art'"I pray that [this book] becomes a kind of Holy Writ for notation in this coming century. Certainly nobody could have done it better, and it will be a reference for musicians for decades to come." Not my words, but those of Simon Rattle (one of only two conductors to escape censure from Peter Maxwell Davies earlier this week; only Rattle and Pierre Boulez emerged uns...

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