When was music manuscript first pre-printed with staves? Google is failing me and Wikipedia just says it happened "eventually."
This comes up because I happened to mention to my son that Haydn wrote 103 (or something) symphonies, and he said that sounded like a heckuva lot of work with a quill pen. Then we both thought, "What about all the lines??"
Anybody know?
Sometime between 1457 and 1473:
http://parlorsongs.com/insearch/printing/printing.php
Reminds me of grade-school music class and the chalk holder that held 5-pieces of chalk at once to draw the staff on the blackboard. Maybe they had a similar contraption for quills?
Or straightedges?
Thank you all, in particular Gameboy for that excellent link.
For further consideration, here is a link to a Haydn manuscript; I can't decide, from looking at the image, if I'm looking at hand-drawn or pre-printed lines.
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