1. Introduction
Compared to the printing of text, the printing of music poses the particular challenge of having to print not only the musical notes, but also the five-line staves containing them. This challenge inspired many different solutions over the course of the early modern period (Notation, musical).
Music was included in printed works from the mid-15th century, written in by hand afterwards. From around 1470, the first musical incunabula made with metal type…