Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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