In reply to various comments: ligatures may have survived, but I cannot think of any examples exceeding a pair of notes. Also, colouration consisted of black and white notation (simple to do when printing black ink on white paper) but red (and blue) notation disappeared because of the complex process of several passes with different coloured inks. Throughout most periods compositional changes drive notational changes, I agree, but I do believe notation drove composition at the beginning of the sixteenth century, and I think the same may happen now. There are often discussions on this list about significant functional improvements that ought to be made to Finale and all we get are "pretty things" that do not address fundamental errors in the original data model of Finale. These will forever be "broken as designed" and there are currently no signs on the horizon of new products that are not limited by the same flaws.
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