Those distinctive house styles and traditional music layout convention are valuable historical reference points for modern music engravers and musicians who use computer music notation software. Criteria for engraving legible and beautiful sheet music varied between publishing houses.
The elegant and beautiful end result was only achieved by highly skilled and experienced professionals of the plate engraving who had completed around nine years of apprenticeship.įrom distribution of space between notes, stem directions, stem lengths, beam angles, line widths for both staves (staffs) and ledger lines, bar (measure) widths, line breaks to slur curvature, vertical and horizontal placement of dynamics and the ways to avoid collision in a complex voicing, were adjusted depending on the musical context by the hand of skilled engravers who comprehended music. However, it was on the decline in the second half of the twentieth century (partly because of the spread of photocopiers) and eventually became obsolete by 2000 1 and was replaced by computer music engraving. This traditional method, which had been in use from the sixteenth century, reached to its peak in the first half of the twentieth century. The term music engraving derives mainly from the traditional process of high quality music printing method called plate engraving.
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