Preparing for your Diploma in Music Performance-A complete guide to preparing for and participating in your Associated Board Music Performance Diploma assessment. The ABRSM demonstration of the standards required for DipABRSM LRSM and FRSM qualifications. Features advice on having a smooth exam day including:Choosing an appropriate repertoireWriting programme notesPreparing for the Quick Study Test and the Viva VoceInterviews with examiners and previously successful candidates.Commentary by the ABRSM's Chief Examiner Clara Taylor.Features optional Chinese subtitles and Cantonese dubbing.

Learn the nuances of music notation and create professional looking scores. This reference presents a comprehensive look at contemporary music notation. You will learn the meaning and stylistic practices for many types of notation that are currently in common use from traditional staffs to lead sheets to guitar tablature. It discusses hundreds of notation symbols as well as general guidelines for writing music.Berklee College of Music brings together teachers and students from all over the world and we use notation in a great variety of ways. This book presents our perspectives on notation: what we have found to be the most commonly used practices in today'smusic industry and what seems to be serving our community best. It includes a foreword by Matthew Nicholl who was a long-time chair of Berklee's Contemporary Writing and Production Department.Whether you find yourself in a Nashville recording studio Hollywood sound stage grand concert hall worship choir loft or elementary school auditorium this book will help you to create readable professional publication-quality notation. Beyond understanding the standard rules and definitions you will learn to make appropriate choices for your own work and generally how to achieve clarity and consistency in your notation so that it best serves your music.