Bach Musicological Font
Check out theBach Musicological Font that I found thanks to the links page of the Music Teacher’s Resource Site.
The great thing about the Bach Musicological Font is that it is inserted right in line with the other text fonts you are using. Some of the other musical fonts I use, like Notes or Maestro, take up a lot of additional space and mess up the formatting of the document.
I highly recommend this helpful tool! I already tried it out and it works great! Just download and install it by following the detailed instructions from this previous post.
October 10th, 2005 at 9:24 pm
Love your blog!
I went to the site and downloaded bach, set up the file in My documents like you said.
When i follow all your instructions, for some reason after clicking “file” and finding my file labeled “fonts” under my download folder, the folder shows up empty. I know it isn’t empty, because if I go back to windows, and click My Documents, Downloads, Fonts, …. i see the zip file with bach4 sitting there!!!!
I am so frustrated…please help if you can!!
I would even be willing to call you to get the help I need..
Thanks a zillion,
Kathy
October 10th, 2005 at 9:34 pm
Thanks, Kathy!
Here’s what I think you need to do: in the location where you can access the zip file, double click on it. If you have a program that unzips files, it should give you the option to extract it. (If you don’t have such a program, you can download a free evaluation version of winzip here.)
Extract the files to your font folder again. They should show up as individual font files now, rather than as a zip file.
Next access your control panel through the start button. Open the “fonts” folder. Click file>install new font. In the folders window, navigate to the font folder to which you extracted the fonts. The new fonts should show up in the list of fonts window. Click select all, then OK.
Now, the Bach fonts should be installed on your computer. Go to MS Word and look through the list of fonts to make sure it’s there. The way I insert the symbols is by going up to Insert>Symbol. Make sure one of the Bach fonts is selected as the font and you should be able to select any number of different note values or symbols to insert directly into your document.
Hopefully this will get you going! If not, feel free to e-mail me and I’ll give you my phone number so you can call me and I’ll walk you through it over the phone!