NOTATIO

This one has beautiful text typography and rather basic movable type notation. https://archive.org/details/catechismofmusic00pinn/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater Someone was bored in class LOL https://archive.org/details/catechismofmusic00pinn/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater I had never seen a quarter r...

So some of you may know I collect style guides and books on notation Got this one already? ;) https://archive.org/details/elementsnotatio00mclagoog/page/n4/mode/2up?view=theater I realized there are quite a few different movable music typefaces, but I think the one in this book is the one I have co...

I think it was this one from 1908 with a nice art nouveau cover: https://archive.org/details/dieornamentikder00beys/mode/2up I had seen a lot of song books, hymn books and tons of banjo schools on the internet archive set in movable type and had thought that technology was only usable for simpler ta...

Congratulation, I like old books from the 19th century because of their clear typography. BTW there is a better scan (signé aussi par M. Lussy) from Brigham Young University https://archive.org/details/histoiredelanota00davi/mode/2up Looking through the pages I was wondering if the staff examples we...

To be honest, I did not read this article myself. I stumbled upon it while looking for something else on ACADEMIA and after a quick scan of the first pages I thought it might interest someone here so I posted the link. I am a fan of a simple and clear way of expressing things as well. Maybe too many...

Just stumbled upon this, might be of interest for someone.

https://www.academia.edu/33614433/Portr ... f_Notation

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Fred G. Unn wrote: ↑

02 Mar 2022, 15:00

The Keaton Music Typewriter is really cool too.

Very interesting concept.

bophead wrote: ↑

02 Mar 2022, 12:54

I did not know Germany has so many museums covering the craft of printing.

More pictures from Leipzig’s Museum der Druckkunst:

https://slidetodoc.com/techniken-des-mu ... museum-fr/

https://owl.museum-digital.de/singleimage?imagenr=9521

https://owl.museum-digital.de/singleimage?imagenr=9519

The origin of Schott Music in Mainz (another case for Google translate)

https://mugemir.de/erthal19/instrumente-verlag