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When you learn to read music, it’s much like learning to read a book. While the notes on the stave go up and down to indicate pitch, we also read from left to right, and that’s the element which ...

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Ah, to dismiss classical music as elitist: it’s the cheapest trick in the book. Unfortunately, BBC broadcaster Clive Myrie—one of the BBC Proms’ presenters this summer—succumbed to this temptation.

"This Dover edition is an unabridged and slightly corrected republication of Crotchets and quavers, originally published in 1855, and Sharps and flats, originally published in 1890." ...