Full Description
The emergence of music printing and publishing in the early 16th century radically changed how music was circulated, and how the musical source (printed or manuscript) was perceived, and used in performance. This series of close studies of the structure and content of 16th-century and early 17th-century editions (and some manuscripts) of music draws conclusions in a number of areas - printing techniques for music; the habits of different type-setters and scribes, and their view of performing practice; publishers' approaches to the musical market and its abilities and interests; apparent changes of plan in preparing editions; questions of authorship; evidence in editions and manuscripts for interpreting different levels of notation; ways in which scribes could influence performers' decisions, and others by which composers could exploit unusual sonorities.
Contents
Contents: Introduction. Printing: The 'first' edition of the Odhecaton A; Petrucci's type-setters and the process of stemmatics; A case of work and turn half-sheet imposition in the early 16th century; Printed music books of the Italian Renaissance from the point of view of manuscript study; The Salzburg liturgy and single-impression music printing. Publishing: Early music printing: working for a specialized market; Some non-conflicting attributions, and some newly anonymous compositions, from the early 16th century; The music publisher's view of his public's abilities and taste: Venice and Antwerp. Performance: Notational spelling and scribal habit; False relations and the cadence; Two aspects of performance practice in the Sistine Chapel of the early 16th century. Indexes.
