On 27 Apr 2005 at 22:56, Christopher Smith wrote: > On Apr 27, 2005, at 9:34 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > > Why are you limiting your discussion to printed music? Manuscript > > music of the 17th and 18th centuries continues to use the practice > > you seem to be arguing was created as a result of using movable > > type. > > And now some computer-engraved music follows the practices formerly > used in manuscript! We've come full circle!
Eh? My point was that MS was using exactly the same practices as in printed music. > > So, I don't really think there's a causal relationship. > > There very well might be one. They continued to write as they were > used to seeing. That's cause enough for me. But they were writing that way in MS before they were using movable type to print music. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
