Sample of single-impression typography
Sample of single-impression typography. This typographic process included staff-lines and notes on a single piece of type, enabling printing with a single run through the press. The economic advantages were offset by the rugged appearance of the broken staff lines.
Ruggerio Giovanelli, “Jesu summa benignitas”
Ruggerio Giovanelli, “Jesu summa benignitas,” in Diletto spirituale, canzonette a tre et a quattro voci composte da diversi ecc.mi Musici, pp. 5-6. This hand-engraved book of music includes three styles of notation: mensural notation for the three voices on the left-hand side of the opening, with tablature for keyboard and lute on the right. Note the elegance afforded by engraving technology, which allowed for unbroken staff lines, teardrop noteheads imitating manuscripts, cursive lettering, flourishes, and ornaments like the drapery surrounding the little unison canon that has been added to the empty space at the end of the piece.
Plainchant in gongche notation
Plainchant in gongche notation from Shengshi gejing jianyao, ed A.-É. Smorenburg.
Qinpu tablature
Qinpu tablature, from Shenqi mipu (神奇秘譜), compiled by Zhu Quan (朱權). Facsimile of the 3rd edition[?] (Wanli era 1573-1620) of the 1425 publication.
Alfabeto chord changes for popular dances
Alfabeto chord changes for popular dances in Gaspar Sanz, Instruccion de musica sobre la guitarra española, y metodo de sus primeros rudimentos, unpaginated plate.
