PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources
Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530
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paper
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Pricking
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empty ruled staves on grid
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Indentation for initials filled in
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notation and staves extended into margin
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staveline added
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black
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chant (square)
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Monophonic Notation
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end symbol
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repeat signs
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occasionally
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end-symbol
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS 215-216, between 1503-18, perhaps 1516, All folios
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