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Song Sheets to Software: A Guide to Print Music, Software and Web Sites for Musicians. (Books).(Brief Article)

American Music Teacher

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Song Sheets to Software: A Guide to Print Music, Software and Web Sites for Musicians, by Elizabeth C. Axford. Scarecrow Press, Inc. (4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706), 2001. 304pp., $36.95.

The idea for this book came to the author while she was working on a recording project and discovered that the sequencing program she was using required the ability to read music. Although she has a master's degree in music, she realized that many musicians who do not read music might wish to use this sequencing program. Furthermore, she realized that music education has not always been a top priority in the American educational system, and there has not been a standardized method of teaching music in school. 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.

The first chapter contains a history of printed music and of early American religious, folk and popular music. There are ...

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