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Music Book Printing (1915) - Specimens of Music Typography
Posted: 05 Sep 2024, 17:29
by 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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Re: Music Book Printing (1915) - Specimens of Music Typography
Posted: 06 Sep 2024, 09:22
by OCTO
What a beauty!
Re: Music Book Printing (1915) - Specimens of Music Typography
Posted: 06 Sep 2024, 17:52
by NorFonts
will post something similar to the "Agate Round" model, will search and post an example here.
Re: Music Book Printing (1915) - Specimens of Music Typography
Posted: 06 Sep 2024, 18:03
by 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.
Re: Music Book Printing (1915) - Specimens of Music Typography
Posted: 06 Sep 2024, 18:26
by Fred G. Unn
NorFonts wrote: ↑06 Sep 2024, 18:03
Found it, here is an example:
Nice!!!
NorFonts wrote: ↑06 Sep 2024, 18:03
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.
Re: Music Book Printing (1915) - Specimens of Music Typography
Posted: 06 Sep 2024, 20:40
by 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?
Re: Music Book Printing (1915) - Specimens of Music Typography
Posted: 06 Sep 2024, 23:15
by Fred G. Unn
NeeraWM wrote: ↑06 Sep 2024, 20:40
Is this book British or American?
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