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  2. History of the alphabet - Wikipedia

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    However, whereas separate letters for vowels would have actually hindered the legibility of Egyptian, Phoenician, or Hebrew, their absence was problematic for Greek, where vowels played a much more important role. [19] The Greeks used for vowels some of the Phoenician letters representing consonants which were not used in Greek speech.

  3. Musical notation - Wikipedia

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    The symbols used include ancient symbols and modern symbols made upon any media such as symbols cut into stone, made in clay tablets, made using a pen on papyrus or parchment or manuscript paper; printed using a printing press (c. 1400), a computer printer (c. 1980) or other printing or modern copying technology.

  4. History of music publishing - Wikipedia

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    A page from the Mellon Chansonnier (c.1470), prepared for the wedding of Catherine of Aragon. Music publishing is the business of creating, producing and distributing printed musical scores, parts, and books in various types of music notation, while ensuring that the composer, songwriter and other creators receive credit and royalties or other payment (where applicable).

  5. Letter notation - Wikipedia

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    In music, letter notation is a system of representing a set of pitches, for example, the notes of a scale, by letters. For the complete Western diatonic scale , for example, these would be the letters A-G, possibly with a trailing symbol to indicate a half-step raise ( sharp , ♯ ) or a half-step lowering ( flat , ♭ ).

  6. History of Western typography - Wikipedia

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    The scribal letter known as textur or textualis, produced by the strong gothic spirit of blackletter from the hands of German area scribes, served as the model for the first text types. Johannes Gutenberg, around 1450, invented a lead type mold, applied it to an alphabet of about 24 characters, and used known press technology to print ink on ...

  7. History of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    The main examples were the Italian hand and the English round-hand, which in Britain were taught to men and women respectively, these scripts feature flowing letters which could be written with a single pen lift (with the exception of x and the marks added after writing the word which were dots on i and j and the bar of the ascender of t) with ...

  8. How to invest in the music industry - AOL

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    That figure accounts for 84 percent of total music industry revenue. Moreover, paid subscriptions to streaming companies increased by 9 percent to $11.2 billion in 2023.

  9. Music technology - Wikipedia

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    With 20th-century music, there was a vast increase in music listening, as the radio gained popularity and phonographs were used to replay and distribute music. The invention of sound recording and the ability to edit music gave rise to new subgenre of classical music, including the acousmatic [ 55 ] and Musique concrète schools of electronic ...