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History of printing sheet music
We continue to acquaint all of you with the history of musical notation.
Soon, after the editions in which it was necessary to inscribe notes by hand, completely printed ones appeared, into which the music text was transferred from boards prepared using woodcarving. The first experiments were the publication of everyday books (notated missals) of Catholics, made in 1481 by the Italian Ottaviano Scotto (died in 1498, his Gregorian chant in Roman square notation is known) and the German Georg Reiser (1468-1504, his chant in Gothic notation was preserved)…
The use of cast sheet music is recorded in the “Concise Grammar” of the Croat Thomas Niger, published in 1480 in Venice. From the end of the 15th to the end of the 16th centuries, it was the largest center of European book printing.
The sheet music, completely printed using typesetting, was first published by Ottaviano Petrucci, who in 1498 received an exclusive license from the Republic of Venice for musical notation. The first collection of music published in typeset is considered to be “Harmonice Musices Odhecaton”, literally “The Hand of Harmonic Music”, published in 1501. By “harmonic music” was meant polyphony, the word “odecaton” (from the ancient Greek words ᾠδή song, singing and ἑκατόν one hundred) was the neologism of a publisher sympathetic to the Greeks.
Visit the site of the First Experimental Printing House. If you have any questions about printing books, catalogs, calendars, posters, you can contact our managers, qualified specialists of the First Experimental Printing House.
+38 (067) 543 56 55
+38 (099) 543 56 55
+38 (073) 545 56 55
History of printing sheet music
We continue to acquaint all of you with the history of musical notation.
Soon, after the editions in which it was necessary to inscribe notes by hand, completely printed ones appeared, into which the music text was transferred from boards prepared using woodcarving. The first experiments were the publication of everyday books (notated missals) of Catholics, made in 1481 by the Italian Ottaviano Scotto (died in 1498, his Gregorian chant in Roman square notation is known) and the German Georg Reiser (1468-1504, his chant in Gothic notation was preserved)…
The use of cast sheet music is recorded in the “Concise Grammar” of the Croat Thomas Niger, published in 1480 in Venice. From the end of the 15th to the end of the 16th centuries, it was the largest center of European book printing.
The sheet music, completely printed using typesetting, was first published by Ottaviano Petrucci, who in 1498 received an exclusive license from the Republic of Venice for musical notation. The first collection of music published in typeset is considered to be “Harmonice Musices Odhecaton”, literally “The Hand of Harmonic Music”, published in 1501. By “harmonic music” was meant polyphony, the word “odecaton” (from the ancient Greek words ᾠδή song, singing and ἑκατόν one hundred) was the neologism of a publisher sympathetic to the Greeks.
Visit the site of the First Experimental Printing House. If you have any questions about printing books, catalogs, calendars, posters, you can contact our managers, qualified specialists of the First Experimental Printing House.
+38 (067) 543 56 55
+38 (099) 543 56 55
+38 (073) 545 56 55
