[Magdalen] Music question

[Scott Knitter]

Interesting pages on the old German handwriting (designed by an artist!):
http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Sutterlin.htm

And on the old German typesetting font, Fraktur:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur

The German equivalent of our pangram (sentence containing every
letter), "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," is...
Victor jagt zwölf Boxkämpfer quer über den Sylter Deich.
(Victor chases 12 boxers [men, not dogs or underpants] across the Sylt dike.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 3:03 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford
<oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> He mentioned that he still has his father's doctoral thesis, but
> cannot read it. It is in the German script that was in vogue prior to WWII.




-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA