At 5:20 PM -0600 9/11/07, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
David W. Fenton wrote:
But type for music printing didn't die out until some time after 1800.
And some types of publications, at least choral octavos and music
books such as hymnals, were typeset using moveable music type
considerably later than that. The latest choral octavo I have seen
set with musical type is a Novello anthem dating from about 1964;
the latest example of a songbook printed with moveable type was a
hymnal printed in 1952.
I find this hard to believe, although I can't say you're wrong. The
operative characteristic of 16th and 17th century music from movable
type is that each piece of type has not only the musical character
but the 5 staff lines on it, so as you look across the page the staff
lines are a little bit wavy rather than being absolutely straight.
(Not true of Petrucci's earlier publications, which used a
triple-impression method.) Are you referring to some different
approach or modification of this technology? I've certainly never
seen a Novello publication with those wavy staff lines.
John
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