Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type
Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type
Publisher: University of California Press | pages: 500 | 1992 | ISBN: 0520057856 | PDF | 47,5 mb
Publisher: University of California Press | pages: 500 | 1992 | ISBN: 0520057856 | PDF | 47,5 mb
Musical notation presented unusual challenges to the new craft of printing in the fifteenth century. Its demands were so difficult that the first impression of music from metal type was not made until a full twenty years after the first printed alphabetic texts. By the end of the century dozens of such fonts had appeared throughout Europe. The books that resulted were often impressive volumes of folio or large-folio size, printed in two colors, with woodcut illustrations.