Description
The book draws upon the rich information gathered for the online database Catalogue of early German printed music / Verzeichnis deutscher Musikfrühdrucke (vdm), the first systematic descriptive catalogue of music printed in the German-speaking lands between c. 1470 and 1540, allowing precise conclusions about the material production of these printed musical sources.
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Table of Contents
Introduction Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Elisabeth Giselbrecht, and Grantley McDonald Part I. Music printing and publishing in the fifteenth century 1. Early music printing and ecclesiastic patronage Mary Kay Duggan 2. German-speaking printers and the development of music printing in Spain (1485–1505) Margarita Restrepo Part II. Printing techniques: problems and solutions 3. ‘Made in Germany’: the dissemination of mensural German music types outside the German-speaking area (and vice versa), up to 1650 Laurent Guillo 4. Printing music: technical challenges and synthesis, 1450–1530 Elisabeth Giselbrecht and Elizabeth Savage 5. ‘Synopsis musicae’: charts and tables in sixteenth-century music Textbooks Inga Mai Groote Part III. Music printing and commerce 6. Melchior Lotter: a German ‘music printer’ Elisabeth Giselbrecht 7. The music books of Christian Egenolff: bad impressions = good return on investment John Kmetz 8. The music editions of Christian Egenolff: a new catalogue and its implications Royston Gustavson Part IV. Music printing and intellectual history 9. The cult of Luther in music Grantley McDonald 10. Theobald Billican and Michael’s ode settings in print: notes on an exceptional transmission Sonja Tröster 11. Polyphonic music in early German print: changing perspectives in music historiography Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl
