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Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe book cover

1st Edition

Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe

Edited By Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Grantley McDonald Copyright 2021
356 Pages 93 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

356 Pages 93 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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