Hermann Zapf’s musical notation calligraphy. An example for musicians & typeface designers (part I)

The early unedited version of this video was available for the supporters of , the source materials are available there, too. The books shown here are: Hans Baumann’s Der Helle Tag and his Die Morgenfrühe, published by Ludwig Voggenreiter Verlag zu Potsdam in 1938 and 1939 respectively. Both books hand-written by Hermann Zapf in Haus Fürsteneck. (Geshcrieben von Hermann Zapf in Haus zum Fürsteneck Frankfurt am Main.) This film is a part of a musical typography research conducted at In touch with: 0:00 — Intro 3:13 — G-clef (treble clef) 3:38 — crotchet (fourth note) 3:57 — minim (half note) 4:20 — semibreve 4:33 — crotchet rest (fourth note rest) 5:12 — quaver rest (eighth note rest) 5:29 — minim & semibreve rests (half and whole notes rests) 5:44 — rhythm dot (time dot) 6:04 — sharp 6:27 — natural 6:42 — flat 7:17 — beams 7:39 — quaver (eighth note