Music engraving and printing: historical and technical treatise

Contents

The representation of musical sounds -- The origin and progress of typographic music printing -- Engraved music printing -- Application of lithography to music printing -- Revival of typographic music printing -- Production of engraved music: the pewter plates -- The engraver's tools -- The punches -- Preliminatires to engraving -- Ruling the staves -- Marking the plate -- The punching -- Engraving and finishing -- Proofing, transferring, and printing -- Typographically-printed music -- The routing of music type-setting -- Stereotyping and electrotyping music -- Writing lithographic music transfers -- Various inventions for music printing -- Application of photo-mechanical processes to music printing -- Summary of the processes used in music engraving and printing -- The position of British music engraving.