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EMUSIC-L Digest                                      Volume 58, Issue 20

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	Typefaces for Music?? (6 messages)

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Date:         Thu, 18 Nov 1993 11:10:57 EST
From:         Stephen Moye 
Subject:      Typefaces for Music??

I am both a Finale and Fontographer user. I am looking for alternatives
to Petrucci and Sonata, and am willing to digitize them if necessary.
Herman Zapf (of Palatino and Optima fame) for instance, drew a
wonderful music typeface called 'Novalis', though as far as I know,
this is not presently available in PostScript

What I would like to do
is to establish a list of presently available music typefaces and
collect samples of printed material that could serve as the basis for
digitizing.

Any assistance anyone would care to give me would be appreciated
very much.

Stephen Moye
Graphic Services
Brown University

smoye@brownvm.brown.edu

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Date:         Thu, 18 Nov 1993 11:42:19 -0500
From:         idealord 
Subject:      Re: Typefaces for Music??

>
> I am both a Finale and Fontographer user. I am looking for alternatives
> to Petrucci and Sonata, and am willing to digitize them if necessary.
> Herman Zapf (of Palatino and Optima fame) for instance, drew a
> wonderful music typeface called 'Novalis', though as far as I know,
> this is not presently available in PostScript
>
> What I would like to do
> is to establish a list of presently available music typefaces and
> collect samples of printed material that could serve as the basis for
> digitizing.
>

Hi, I am very interested in typefaces, also, as a Sonata user.  I have been
exploring the option of re-coding Sonata or Petrucci into some sort of
vectored Postscript code for public domain distribution of my music.  If
anyone has already done this :) I'd like to hear from them.  I've got an
archive site right now in Germany waiting for me for Postscript music
distribution (other composers might also be invited to use this site for their
music) but they don't want to archive music which is dependent on a commercial
font for its realization.

I've not been impressed with bitmapped fonts for music.  In a rehersal with
any computer-generated music which has a stair-stepped hairpin, you still hear
"What does this symbol stand for?"  The LJIV we've got where I work has
finally allowed me (600 dpi) to realize music which looks absolutely engraved!
I use The Copyist for Amiga along with all the sundry little homemade progs I
use to modify its problematic PS output.

I've heard of the following typefaces:

Lime (the Lime Demo package has a Postscript font) - if someone could
de-Macify this I would much appreciate it as it would appear to be
re-distributable.

Wendy Carlos - She's made 3 typefaces that I've heard of.  Some Finale users I
know only use her fonts.

Bach - a shareware typeface in Postscript format.  It's mainly being used by
Windows users.

Jeff Harrington
idealord@dorsai.dorsai.org

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Date:         Thu, 18 Nov 1993 12:22:51 EST
From:         SMOYE@BROWNVM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Typefaces for Music??

What is 'Lime'? That is a new one to me, and where is it located?

What is the source of the Wendy Carlos fonts?

Stephen Moye
Graphic Services
Brown University
smoye@brownvm.brown.edu

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Date:         Thu, 18 Nov 1993 12:50:54 -0500
From:         idealord 
Subject:      Re: Typefaces for Music??

>
> What is 'Lime'? That is a new one to me, and where is it located?
>

Lime is a Mac notation package (see this months Computer Music Journal).
There is a Lime Demo package - do an archie... somebody else must have the
particulars.

> What is the source of the Wendy Carlos fonts?
>

Commercial software vendors.  I can ask my friend that uses them for more
information about where he got them, but there are quite a few font sellers...

> Stephen Moye
> Graphic Services
> Brown University
> smoye@brownvm.brown.edu
>

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Date:         Thu, 18 Nov 1993 14:15:17 -0500
From:         Joe McMahon 
Subject:      Re: Typefaces for Music??

>Lime is a Mac notation package (see this months Computer Music Journal).
>There is a Lime Demo package - do an archie... somebody else must have the
>particulars.
Try castrovalva.gsfc.nasa.gov (the EMUSIC-L ftp site). This may not be the
newest version, but it is available there.

 --- Joe M.

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Date:         Fri, 19 Nov 1993 01:04:04 +0100
From:         Gonzalo Torrente Ballester 
Subject:      Re: Typefaces for Music??

Stephen Moye wrote

>
> I am both a Finale and Fontographer user. I am looking for alternatives
> to Petrucci and Sonata, and am willing to digitize them if necessary.
> Herman Zapf (of Palatino and Optima fame) for instance, drew a
> wonderful music typeface called 'Novalis', though as far as I know,
> this is not presently available in PostScript

I am also interested in music fonts, and have alredy developed some special
signs I need for my work using Fontographer. But to design a complete
 alter-native font is a hard work which I intend to do in the future. I'm very
 interested
in get in contact with other people who is working in the same field.

I can provide some information about other music fonts:

About Lime, which is a music notation package with its own postscript fonts,
the following information was sent to me a few weeks ago:

Version 2.1 of Lime notation software is now available.  Old accounts
will still be serviced at CERL (244-6686).  Updates for current owners
can be obtained by calling (217) 244-6686 or e-mail to Lime@uiuc.edu.
New purchases (including a copy of the demo sent through the mail for
those without ftp capabilities) must be made through Electronic
Courseware Systems, Inc. 800-832-4965 (fax: 359-6578),
1210 Lancaster Drive, Champaign, IL 61821.
Consultation at (217) 355-4500.
A demonstration version of Lime 2.1 is available for Macintosh SE and II
series computers.  A binhex'ed self-extracting archive containing the
executable can be copied via anonymous FTP from /pub/lime on
novamail.cerl.uiuc.edu (internet number: 128.174.180.9). Read the
"README" file in /pub/lime for further instructions.

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Bach font was developed by Dr Tomita, who can be contacted in the following
E-Mail address:  chi6yt@sun.leeds.ac.uk (published in music-research digest)

I have also heard about other fonts called 'MusicType' and 'shpfltnat',
but I don't know them.

'Lassus' an interesting font not useful in music edition packages, but it's
applicable for music examples in Word processors. It's available somewhere
in the internet but I can not find the place. You can find it using archie.

Other fonts I've got are 'Rameau' 'GraceNote' and 'Crescendo', which provide
some good symbols. This fonts are comercial.

Alvaro Torrente
Musica Reservata
torrente@rs6000.usal.es

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