Craig, Although this book doesn't deal with typesetting specifically you might want to look at it. It has a large number of facsimiles of both type set and hand written music from the 15th and 16th centuries. The book is titled Composers at work, The Craft of Musical Composition 1450-1600. The author is Jesse Ann Owens, a Professor of Music at Brandeis University and a specialist in Renaissance music. The book wasn't expensive, although I can't find a price on my copy. It is published by Oxford University Press and the ISBN is 0-19-512904-0. The topic is the process of composition of that time, but the correlary is the ways of writing it down. There is very little on tabulature documents, it is mainly involved with staff notation as it tracks the development from vocal written music to instrumental in that period. I think it might be of interest to many on this list who enjoy the history of our music.
Best, Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:16 AM Subject: Period typesetting Greetings All, I sent this last night but for some reason it hasn't appeared on the list by now so I'll try again. Apologies if the first one does show up and you get this twice. I have been researching typesetting of the 16th century as it pertains to the publication of music and lute manuscripts in particular. In speaking with some typesetters that I know they tell me there are no extant examples of music specific type, even from the 20th century much less earlier. For as much music as came out of period I am hoping this is wrong and that there are some extant examples of music type tucked away in museums somewhere. To that end I am hoping some of you may know of these or, at the very least, can point me to some iconography or texts on the subject. I have seen one late 17th c. French book on the subject of the type foundry, but anything earlier would be greatly appreciated. My thanks in advance for your assistance. Regards, Craig To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
