Music Book Printing (1915) - Specimens of Music Typography

[Fred G. Unn]

Recently picked up a cool 1915 book titled Music Book Printing. One section depicts a few of the various movable music typefaces that were available at the time, and depicts how they would appear using the same musical examples. I found it interesting anyway so thought I'd share a few pages:

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[OCTO]

What a beauty!

[NorFonts]

will post something similar to the "Agate Round" model, will search and post an example here.

[NorFonts]

Found it, here is an example:

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too bad the half-note is too flat so the stem doesn't connect correctly when two voices share the same pitch.

[Fred G. Unn]

Found it, here is an example:

Nice!!!

too bad the half-note is too flat so the stem doesn't connect correctly when two voices share the same pitch.

Yeah, that does look weird. I suppose you could change the voice column index then move it with the note spacing tool.

[NeeraWM]

The treble clef looks similar to the Novello one, seems a style in vogue in the UK at the time.
Is this book British or American?

[Fred G. Unn]

Is this book British or American?

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