Good day: I'm quite behind the times: I just discovered that H.C. Robbins-Landon passed away last November. I was a big fan of his Haydn 5 vol biography that was huge. I remember there were a lot of musical examples provided in those books. My question is: back in the 1970s when the Haydn biography was printed, were publishers using plates for such music score examples? I remember my college weekly newspaper was using a very clunky computer- it would churn out small ribbons of tape with the graphics on it, which were in turn glued to a sticky piece of paper. So I would imagine that a large book company during this period was using much more sophisticated computers for text, but again-- what were they doing for music; and how would they marry computer generated mock-ups of text with plate engraving?
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