as in handwriting
writing done by hand
beautiful, careful manuscript on the school's diplomas
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Schoenberg’s original manuscripts, kept in Vienna, are safe, but the scores will be difficult to replace, since Belmont’s digital backups also burned.
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Justin Curto, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
This isn’t the original manuscript, but one that Moore wrote specifically for the Historical Society archives in 1862.
—Tina Jordan, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
As technology improves and allows better reading of the manuscript, scholars continue to debate the content of the document and how the fragments should be put together in the hopes of gaining even more insight into Hellenic religion and philosophy of the time.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
No original Schoenberg manuscripts were destroyed in the fire.
—Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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Justin Curto, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
This isn’t the original manuscript, but one that Moore wrote specifically for the Historical Society archives in 1862.
—Tina Jordan, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
As technology improves and allows better reading of the manuscript, scholars continue to debate the content of the document and how the fragments should be put together in the hopes of gaining even more insight into Hellenic religion and philosophy of the time.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
No original Schoenberg manuscripts were destroyed in the fire.
—Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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