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Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation

Reviews

The following reviews have appeared (the text of a review is usually available from this website, either by link to the author/publisher's website, or by provision of a PDF on this website with permission and thanks to the respective editors/publications, as noted below):

• Tom Service's Blog On Classical Music at the Guardian (12 Jan 2011) http://www.guardian.co.uk/
• Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 (on sale Mon 10th Jan 2011) by Arnold Whittall, http://www.gramophone.co.uk/ (text not available here at present, but is available on the Faber Music website at http://www.fabermusic.com/)
• Arts Journal - Slipped Disk - Norman Lebrecht (25 Jan 2011) http://slippedisc.com/.
• Music Matters, BBC Radio 3, Sat 19th Feb 2011, 12.15 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yqxj5
• Times Literary Supplement, 18 March 2011, by Hugh Wood, http://www.the-tls.co.uk/; (PDF, 167kb, © 2011 The Times Literary Supplement)
• Classical Net Review June 2011: review by Mark Sealey http://www.classical.net/;
• Stephen Brown June 2011 http://stephenbrown.ca/;
• Music & Liturgy July 2011 Issue 342 Volume 37 No 2, p. 17, review by Alan Smith (PDF, 62kb)
• Tempo July 2011 Volume 65, Issue 257, pp 78 - 82, review by Julian Anderson Tempo (PDF, 98kb, © 2011 Cambridge University Press)
• Inside Story: October 2011 by Andrew Ford http://insidestory.org.au/;
• Birmingham Post 10 Nov 2011 by Christopher Morley http://www.birminghampost.net/;
• The Tutor Pages Aug 2012 http://www.thetutorpages.com/;
• Fontes Artis Musicae 2012 (2012:4 (59:4)), pages 395-396, review by Stephen Chase (PDF, 72kb) © 2012 International Association of Music Libraries (http://www.iaml.info/)
• Danish Yearbook of Musicology 2012, Vol 39 http://www.dym.dk/; (PDF, 113kb)
• College Music Symposium by Paul Lombardi , Volume 51, Fall 2012: http://symposium.music.org/

The following reviews have also appeared, but the content is not currently available by link or PDF:

• BASCA magazine, Issue 30, review by David Bedford
• Brass Band World, Feb 2011, by Philip Harper http://www.brassbandworld.co.uk/;
• BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, review by Ivan Hewett http://www.classical-music.com/;
• Music Teacher Magazine, March & April 2011 editions, review by Paul Harris http://www.musicteachermagazine.co.uk/.
• Classic Music Magazine 27 Aug 2011 by Jonathan Wikeley http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/;

"Behind Bars" has been associated with the following awards:

• Shortlisted for MIA Music Awards 2011 - Printed Music Awards - Best Classical Publication
• Classical Music Magazine (http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/) selected "Behind Bars" for their Editor's Choice, Books of the Year 2011 (edition of 17 December 2011).

"Behind Bars"

• is a reference source for part of Recordare's MusicXML 3.0 Specification; see: http://www.musicxml.com/for-developers/.
• has been added to the course syllabus for the Jazz Composers Orchestral Institute Summer Course, Los Angeles, August 7-11, 2012 http://www.americancomposers.org/jcoi/.
  
• is noted by Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University Bloomington as a standard of notational practice, see: http://www.music.indiana.edu/departments/academic/composition/style-guide/ (July 2013).

And for something a bit different: a Quarter Peal rung on the bells in Pershore on 21 January 2011 to mark the publication of Behind Bars: see http://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/.