Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe

List of contents

Introduction: music among the bibliographic disciplines
Kate van Orden
PART I
Type
1 The pioneers of mensural music printing in German-speaking lands:
networks and type repertoria
Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl
2 Printed music papers: research opportunities and challenges
John Milsom
PART II
Notes
3 Musical editions for the Protestant churches of Strasbourg until the end of the Interim (1555)
Beat Föllmi
4 Reading the Melopoiae (1507): a search for its owners and users
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
PART III
Music printing at Wittenberg
5 Power and ambition: Georg Rhau’s strategies for music publishing
Moritz Kelber
6 Three Libri missarum of early Lutheran Germany: some reflections on their repertory
Carlo Bosi
PART IV
Music printing in the Low Countries
7 A date with Tylman Susato: reconsidering the printer’s editions
Martin Ham
8 The music printers Madeleine and Marie Phalèse in Antwerp, 1629–1675
Maria Schildt
PART V
Printing privileges
9 Privileges for printed music in the Holy Roman Empire during the sixteenth century
Grantley McDonald and Stephen Rose
10 ‘Unbelievably hard work’: Marin Mersenne’s Harmonie universelle at the printers
Leendert van der Miesen
PART VI
The book trade
11 The Montanus & Neuber catalogue of 1560: prices, losses, and a new polyphonic music edition from 1556
Royston Gustavson
12 The Officina Plantiniana as publishers and distributors of music, 1578–1600
Louisa Hunter-Bradley
13 Competition, collaboration and consumption: early music printing in Seville
Iain Fenlon

About the author

Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl is full professor of music history at the University of Salzburg.
Grantley McDonald is a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford.

Summary

This book presents a varied and nuanced analysis of the dynamics of the printing, publication, and trade of music in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries across Western and Northern Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea (University of Salzburg Lindmayr-Brandl
• Assisted by: Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl (Editor), Lindmayr-Brandl Andrea (Editor), Grantley McDonald (Editor), McDonald Grantley (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367359539
• ISBN: 978-0-367-35953-9
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Music and Material Culture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Classical, opera, operetta, musical; Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, MUSIC / Printed Music / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Social and cultural history, baroque, Renaissance style, Musical scores, lyrics & libretti, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Musical scores, lyrics and libretti, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750), Medieval style, Western "classical" music