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As an early music specialist... I'm really quite at home at reading old clefs and all manner of writing and typesetting from about 300-400 years ago... even rough little scribbles of composers (and sometimes my own transcriptions...). Different clefs are mostly fine as well, including those that are now rarely seen... 

... however, where I do tend to draw the line is with these older block prints. These prints were the height of printing technology in the day... with each note and block being placed individually... but without the barring across the note lengths, and without the spacing that is roughly proportional to the note length, I find this sort of music REALLY hard to read. Of course, I could just practice it... or bar the notes together, but I also find that after a while, the music becomes a weird illusion, and I start to see the tails as the notes instead of the actual note heads!

Also, with the individual noting... I find it really hard to project and read ahead... which means I'm batting off notes in quick succession rather than reading a whole sweep at one. 

Bleah... I'm going to have to transcribe all these early Italian Baroque pieces for a concert in July... The originals are lovely, but it is just too annoying to read!



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