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Ad musicam practicam introductio : non modo praecepta, sed exempla quoque ad usum puerorum accommodata, quam brevissime continens

Faber, Heinrich, -1552, author, Montani, Johann, printer, Neuber, Ulrich, -1571, printer, Boston Public Library, binder. MB · 1550 · Impressa Norimbergae : In officina Iohannis Montani, & Ulrici Neuber · 10 pictures

Ad musicam practicam introductio is a 1550 music theory textbook by Heinrich Faber, printed in Nuremberg by Johann Montani and Ulrich Neuber for boys learning practical music. Its pictures are typeset diagrams of musical notation: brace-grouped lists of solmization syllables, note values, and modal names set in dense black-letter type on cream paper, offering a designer a model for systematic tabular layouts, bracket structures, and early modern typographic hierarchy.

Music theory

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