A significant amount of music notation fundamentals are explored inside the compass of this book. From a consumer's standpoint, it can be difficult to obtain a large collection of musical precepts concisely packaged. Other books stop short on information detailing principles that are frequently misunderstood, misrepresented, or are otherwise difficult to express in an instruction-manual format. The intention of this book is to impart "grammatically" accurate and intelligent reasoning skills regarding these conventions. To assist in this endeavor, there are over 525 musical figures, excerpts, and examples. Most are presented from standard music literature. Many of these examples are annotated to more effectively communicate to the reader the important characteristics of the topics discussed in each chapter. This book is a must for those seeking to: - Improve one's understand regarding the tenets of music notation. - Better comprehend the intentions that composers were, and currently are, conveying through the use of music notation symbols and principles in their scores. - Enhance one's overall "musical literacy" concerning the marks, signs, expressive terminology, nomenclature, and other characters encountered in music literature. - Develop the proper skills necessary to manufacture scores from one's own compositions with accurate and intelligent representation. - Recognize and correct some of the errors that music software programs continue to make.