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Show WRITTEN MUSIC IS NOT NEW Custom of Preserving Melodies In Tanalbla Form Wat First Observed Ob-served by the Greeks, There were a great many steps In the development of the present form of writing music. The custom of writing writ-ing melodies rather than trusting to the uncertain help of memory for their preservation was first observed by the Greeks. Indeed, at one time, the preserving pre-serving of music In a tangible, visible form was deemed so necessary ns to be the subject of a special papal bull. The writing out of music was accomplished ac-complished by the use of many different differ-ent sets of signs and symbols. In tho various countries. Nothing really definite and lasting, though, wns dwio In this direction until the fifteenth century, cen-tury, when the first real printing of melodies and harmonies was accomplished accom-plished In Germany. This was mado pojsTble by the Invention of the movable mov-able metal types. The prints thus produced were remarkably re-markably clear and nent at first, but they later became gradually more and more Imperfect, which degeneration finally led to the Invention of copperplate copper-plate printing In 1.132, by Simon Ve-rovio, Ve-rovio, an Italian. New York Globe. |
