I never really considered my music manuscript-writing visual art as I have always used that medium to create what musicians use to make music. Music manuscript organizes, communicates and describes the audio sounds music needs to create art. Aha! That's what visual art does!
I have not written scores by hand in many decades and when I created this score from my computer manuscript I found that which I had lost; creating a visual landscape to communicate my needs, musically as well as visually. This project has convinced me that in some of my future projects I will need to hand write my manuscript again.