pavane -

There was a thread a year(?) or so ago in which several people suggested music fonts and sites where they could be downloaded. My "quick look" for the thread didn't find anything, and I don't seem to have made a trace or a note of the thread title.

My "favorite" notation program, which is unfortunately an historic relic no longer sold and that barely limps on WinXP, uses a TrueType font called Anastasia that seems to be a "complete set" with notes and rests down to 128th, and at least all of the notation symbols I've ever thought of using. "Companion" fonts called Frets A, Frets B, and Frets C provide guitar fret diagrams for most chords. Print quality is excellent.

Font selection in the program is provided so that any other available font can be used - a nice feature if you can do it. Adobe Type 1 versions of the Anastasia and Frets fonts came with the program, and are what I have installed; but the Type 1 fonts are only needed if you want to print something at extreme re-scaled sizes, or if you always print PostScript as I do. Windows has very limited ability to handle Type 1 fonts without installation of Adobe Font Manager, so True Type fonts would be more generally useful for most people.

A font named Maestro is used by a number of notation programs I've looked at, and it also appears to be a full set. I have it installed as a Type 1, but I'm pretty sure it comes as a True Type in the bundle with a couple of notation programs.

Since these fonts were provided with notation programs I've used, I don't know if they are "trad" or if copyrights may be involved. I don't find any restrictions on use noted in a couple of the programs.

John