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Oh, experimenting with condensed score is a good idea! I sort of absentmindedly copied the layout of the 1848 original (hence the unusual stave order), but there's no reason that's really necessary. The musical source is digitized on archive.org, should any reader really care about such niceties. Th...

TBH, I don't think you would necessarily lose anything of your argument if you just printed the two variants as text, like additional verses of hymns. If you can't put the labels in the "Fig. 1" text, then they do cramp things somewhat. This is actually what I initially had done! But then...

Oh, I know this font! De Vinne was introduced in the 1890s and was a fairly popular face into the '30s. The modern variants of the family are less heightened, especially the capitals. I'm doing background research for a critical edition of this score from 1911. About a third of the book was set very...

Howdy. This is probably a question that I could probably solve by hunting through a few books for models to follow, but my university's library is still closed--so here I am. I'm preparing an example for a musicology article. It comes into play when I'm discussing a song lyric that was printed witho...