Re: piece and composer

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 13:10, Erik Sandberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is perhaps not a bug, but.. i'm a bit curious why the piece and
> composer texts are engraved the way they are, in uppercase. It looks
> nice, but where does it come from? I can't recall that I have seen it
> anywhere else; in most scores those texts are written in a style
> similar to that of subtitle or subsubtitle.
>
> Erik

On old sheet music you see smallcaps both for the composer on the right
and for the lyricist or poet on the left.  It's a good way.  I don't
know how "piece" got into it.  That should probably be Roman or Italic,
possibly boldface, JIC you have both an "allegro" or something and
a poet.  daveA

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