How were 19th century music sheets made?
Were all different score elements (articulation, clef sizes, different slur degree) all carved on a separate surface and then impressed upon a sheet (rather than making a mirror of a full page)? How much would it cost nowadays to use these traditional methods?
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Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvyoKdW-Big
In reply to Check it by Jm6stringer
Thanks for sharing.
It is a very delicate work - the vastness of equipment used, the mirror positioning while engraving, the effort to make a correction, and then there's rhythmic spacing...
In reply to Check it by Jm6stringer
Thanks, very interesting. (After that some will still complaint that working with Musescore is slow ;-) )
In reply to Thanks, very interesting. by frfancha
Before I used MuseScore, I would write my compositions by hand and I couldn't imagine anything slower than that. Now I think of these poor engravers :'-D
In reply to Before I used MuseScore, I by McCleffy
Actually, writing out music by hand is generally a fair bit faster than doing input on a computer. But the computer-generated result is a lot neater and more uniform. ;o)
In reply to Before I used MuseScore, I by McCleffy
What I would say is this: writing by hand is faster if no one but me ever has to read it. If I want to make it even moderately legible though, I'm way faster using MuseScore.
In reply to What I would say is this: by Marc Sabatella
Heh-heh! When I was in college, copying rental parts for Broadway shows to earn extra money, I would have agreed with that statement. But my experience of transcribing 18th-century manuscripts over the last few years has made me a lot more tolerant of what is considered 'readable' or not. ;o)
That's an example of Pisendel's work as a copyist in Dresden in the mid-1700s. 250 years ago, musicians were expected to sight-read stuff like this without bitching. (Thank bog for MuseScore, I say.... ;o)
In reply to Check it by Jm6stringer
Thank's for sharing.