A New System of Musical Notation for the Use of the Blind [Frere type]

Accession Number: 2001.62.2

Summary/Description: Folio pages, tied with a blue silk ribbon, are embossed in the Frere system, with the exception of the title, some headings that are embossed in raised letters of the alphabet, and three pages embossed with standard musical notation. Pieces of music include "God Save the Queen," and "I Will Arise and Go to My Father, Anthem for Four Voices." The latter is printed "as performed at the school for the indigent blind St Georges Fields." The last page lists one subscriber, Miss Yates, to the "Fund for Providing Embossed Music For the Blind on Mr J H Frere's Principle of Notation." Frere type is read from left to right on one line, and from right to left on the next line. Single-sided embossing. Date taken from year embossed in left margin. "Instead of embossing from type, like his predecessors, Frere bent short lengths of copper wire into the signs, and fused the wire to a sheet of tin to make a single, handy embossed plate . . . " --Elizabeth Harris (In Touch).

Author: Frere, James Hatley

Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 2001.62

Publisher Place: [London]

Publish Date: 1842

Subjects: Frere system Music for the blind and visually impaired Printing and writing systems

Physical Description: 18 p. of raised type ; 10.5 x 13 in.