manuscript

Music manuscripts are handwritten sources of music. Generally speaking, they can be written on paper or parchment. If the manuscript contains the composer's handwriting it is called an autograph. Music manuscripts can contain musical notation as well as texts and images.

Manuscript: An unpublished, usually handwritten music score. If the manuscript includes the composer's writing, it is called an autograph.

Manuscript culture uses manuscripts to store and disseminate information; in the West, it generally preceded the age of printing. In early manuscript culture, monks copied manuscripts by hand. They copied not just religious works, but a variety of texts including some on astronomy, herbals, and bestiaries.

But for the title of oldest extant song, most historians point to “Hurrian Hymn No. 6,” an ode to the goddess Nikkal that was composed in cuneiform by the ancient Hurrians sometime around the 14th century B.C.

A manuscript is a handwritten or typed document, especially a writer's first version of a book before it is published.

The noun manuscript evolved from the Latin manu scriptus, meaning “written by hand.” Manu is “hand” and scriptus is “to write." It refers to old documents actually written by hand before books were made, but it can also refer to a writer's unpublished work whether it's handwritten or typed.

: a written or typewritten composition or document as distinguished from a printed copy. also : a document submitted for publication.

: a written or typewritten composition or document as distinguished from a printed copy. also : a document submitted for publication. The library owns the author's original manuscript. 2. : writing as opposed to print.

In the context of library science, a manuscript is defined as any hand-written item in the collections of a library or an archive. For example, a library's collection of hand-written letters or diaries is considered a manuscript collection.

Guido d'Arezzo The modern Western music notation system developed from a basic notation system designed by an 11th century monk named Guido d'Arezzo, who developed a notation system from neumatic practices that eventually evolved into the system we use today.

Manuscript: An unpublished, usually handwritten music score. If the manuscript includes the composer's writing, it is called an autograph.

In the context of library science, a manuscript is defined as any hand-written item in the collections of a library or an archive. For example, a library's collection of hand-written letters or diaries is considered a manuscript collection.