Research Catalog

Title

Sources and the circulation of Renaissance music / edited by Mary S. Lewis.

Publication

Farnham : Ashgate, 2012.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Lewis, Mary S., 1934-

Description

1 v.; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume explores the means and motives for the distribution of music during the Renaissance. --from publisher description

Series Statement

Library of essays on Renaissance music

Subject

• Music > 15th century > Manuscripts
• Music > 16th century > Manuscripts
• Music > 17th century > Manuscripts
• Music printing > Europe > History > To 1500
• Music printing > Europe > History > 16th century
• Music printing > Europe > History > 17th century
• Dissemination of music > History > To 1500
• Dissemination of music > History > 16th century
• Dissemination of music > History > 17th century

Genre/Form

• History
• Manuscripts

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Scribes and the making of manuscripts : Manuscript structure in the Dufay Era / Charles Hamm ; Simon Mellet, scribe of Cambrai cathedral / Liane Curtis ; A contemporary perception of early fifteenth-century style: Bologna Q15 as a document of scribal editorial initiative / Margaret Bent ; The origins of the Chigi Codex: the date, provenance, and original ownership of Rome, Biblioteca Vaticana, Chigiana, C. VIII. 234 / Herbert Kellman ; Jean Michel, Maistre Jhan and a chorus of beasts: old light on some ferrarese music manuscript / Joshua Rifkin -- Sources, politics and transmission : European politics and the distribution of music in the early fifteenth century / Reinhard Strohm ; A gift of madrigals and chansons: the Winchester part books and courtship of Elizabeth I by Erik XVI of Sweden / Kristine K. Forney ; Danish diplomacy and the dedication of Giardino novo II (1606) to King James I / Susan G. Lewis --^
• Sources and the transmission of repertory : The early Tudor court, the provinces and the Eton Choirbook / Magnus Williamson ; Antwerp's role in the reception and dissemination of the Madrigal in the North / Kristine K. Forney -- Patrons and collectors : The purpose of the gift: for display or for performance / Stanley Boorman ; Music in the library of Johannes Klein / Tom R. Ward ; Music for the nuns of Verona: a story about MS DCCLXI of the biblioteca capitolare in Verona / Howard Mayer Brown ; The salon as marketplace in the 1550s: Patrons and collectors of Lasso's secular music / Donna G. Cardamone -- Music printing: 1501-1528 : The 500th anniversary of the first music printing: a history of patronage and taste in the early years / Stanley Boorman ; The printing contract for the Libro primo de musica de la salamandra / Bonnie J. Blackburn --^
• Printing and printing houses after 1528 : The Libro primo of constanzo festa / James Haar ; Twins, cousins, and heirs: relationships among editions of music printed in sixteenth-century Venice / Mary S. Lewis ; Thoughts on the popularity of printed music in 16th-century Italy / Stanley Boorman ; The burning salamander: assigning a printer to some sixteenth-century music prints / Jane A. Bernstein -- The financial side of music printing : Financial arrangements and the role of printer and composer in sixteenth-century Italian music printing / Jane A. Bernstein ; The Venetian privilege and music-printing in the sixteenth-century / Richard J. Agee ; Orlando di Lasso, composer and print entrepreneur / James Harr ; Music-selling in late sixteenth-century Florence: the bookshop of Piero di Giuliano Morosi / Tim Carter.

ISBN

• 9780754629290 (hbk.)
• 0754629295 (hbk.)

OCLC

751834880

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library