Beschreibung:
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
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.