From: urban@panix.com   
      
   In article <7c0c885a52.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>,   
   Michael Bell   wrote:   
   >It is commonly said that "broadsides" gave the words only because   
   >"everybody knew the tunes". But is this so. Technology existed for   
   >printing alphabetic letters, but is it not much harder to print music   
   >in staff notation? Not the kind of thing an ordinary printer would be   
   >able to do?   
      
   In Elizabethan times, at least, Byrd and Tallis had a monopoly on   
   the printing of music and music paper.  So it may not have been   
   so much a technical issue as an early 'copyright'-like matter.   
      
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