Studies in the Printing, Publishing and Performance of Music in the 16th Century

Stanley Boorman

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English

Ashgate Publishing Limited
28 August 2005

Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600); Publishing industry

Series: Variorum Collected Studies

The emergence of music printing and publishing in the early 16th century radically changed how music was circulated, and how the musical source (printed or manuscript) was perceived, and used in performance. This series of close studies of the structure and content of 16th-century and early 17th-century editions (and some manuscripts) of music draws conclusions in a number of areas - printing techniques for music; the habits of different type-setters and scribes, and their view of performing practice; publishers' approaches to the musical market and its abilities and interests; apparent changes of plan in preparing editions; questions of authorship; evidence in editions and manuscripts for interpreting different levels of notation; ways in which scribes could influence performers' decisions, and others by which composers could exploit unusual sonorities.

By: Stanley Boorman
Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 224mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780860789703
ISBN 10: 0860789705
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 28 August 2005
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: Introduction. Printing: The 'first' edition of the Odhecaton A; Petrucci's type-setters and the process of stemmatics; A case of work and turn half-sheet imposition in the early 16th century; Printed music books of the Italian Renaissance from the point of view of manuscript study; The Salzburg liturgy and single-impression music printing. Publishing: Early music printing: working for a specialized market; Some non-conflicting attributions, and some newly anonymous compositions, from the early 16th century; The music publisher's view of his public's abilities and taste: Venice and Antwerp. Performance: Notational spelling and scribal habit; False relations and the cadence; Two aspects of performance practice in the Sistine Chapel of the early 16th century. Indexes.

Stanley Boorman is Professor in the Department of Music at New York University, USA.

Reviews for Studies in the Printing, Publishing and Performance of Music in the 16th Century

'In summary, the reader of this collection will be deeply rewarded for taking the care to read each of these essays and observe a keen intellect at work... Any comprehensive collection of published research on early music in Europe must acquire this book of thoughtful and seminal studies.' Notes 'While across the essays Boorman writes for a narrow audience of specialists, his methodology has implications for studies of the sociology of books, the nature of evidence, the interaction of printed and manuscript sources (and their subsequent scholarly study), and the role of the market in the production of texts... The work of Stanley Boornlan is familiar and 'required reading' for all students and scholars of early music printing.' Sixteenth Century Journal