The Masonic Orpheus
The Masonic Orpheus is a songbook compiled by Howard Malcolm Dow and published in Boston by O. Ditson in 1870, containing four-part choruses for men's voices aimed at Freemasons. Its two pictures are plain engraved musical score pages, with staves of notes, lyric lines set beneath the notes, and dynamic markings, useful to a designer for their rhythmic line work, dense typographic texture, and the classic layout of Victorian sheet music.
