Hartley Wood Day: Inventor of Numeral Notation and Adversary of Lowell Mason
Description:
Ignorance of the basic principles of music reading was one of the primary obstacles to the improvement of congregational singing in nineteenth-century America. Six separate numeral notation systems arose to provide a simple way for the common man to learn the basic principles of music. Hartley Day developed his own numeral notation system and published six tune-books that enjoyed modest success in the New England area. This thesis examines Day's numeral notation system as it appeared in the Bos…
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Date:
December 1991
Creator:
Carnes, Tara Barker
Partner:
UNT Libraries