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Show WRITTEN MUSIC IS NOT NEW Custom of Preserving Melodies In Tangible Form Was 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: f music in a tangible, visible form was deemed so necessary as 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, la the various countries. Nothing really definite and lasting, though, was done 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 made possible by the invention of the movable mov-able metal types. The prints thus produced were remarkably re-markably clear and neat at first, but they later became gradually more and more imperfect, which degeneration finally led to the invention of copperplate copper-plate printing in 1532, by Simon Ve-rovio, Ve-rovio, an Italian. New York Globe. |