Twins, Cousins, and Heirs: Relationships among Editions of Music Printed in Sixteenth-Century Venice

In the middle years of the sixteenth century, the two leading Venetian music printers, Antonio Gardano and Girolamo Scotto, frequently published the same music—even the same collections of pieces—at approximately the same time, and at other times produced new editions of each other’s work within a year or two after the previous edition had appeared.