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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. Chapters consider dimensions of music printing in Britain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy, showing how this area of inquiry can engage a wide range of cultural, historical and theoretical issues. From the economic consequences of the international book trade to the history of women music printers, the contributors explore the nuances of the interrelation between the materiality of print music and cultural, aesthetic, religious, legal, gender and economic history. Engaging with the theoretical turns in the humanities towards material culture, mobility studies and digital research, this book offers a wealth of new insights that will be relevant to researchers of early modern music and early print culture alike.
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
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.
