Search Results for: Music Authorship And The Book In The First Century Of Print

What does it mean to author a piece of music? What transforms the performance scripts written down by musicians into authored books? In this fascinating cultura

Explores the meanings of the term 'author' for seventeenth-century German musicians, examining how compositions were made and used.

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 centuri

Part of the seminal Cambridge History of Music series, this volume departs from standard histories of early modern Western music in two important ways. First, i

In sixteenth-century Italy, Rome ranked second only to Venice as an important center for music book production. Throughout the century, printers in the Eternal