Studies in the Printing, Publishing and Performance of Music in the 16th Century (English, Stanley Boorman)

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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-set…

ISBN: 9780860789703