ABSTRACT
The book draws upon the rich information gathered for the online database Catalogue of early German printed music / Verzeichnis deutscher Musikfrühdrucke (vdm), the first systematic descriptive catalogue of music printed in the German-speaking lands between c. 1470 and 1540, allowing precise conclusions about the material production of these printed musical sources.
Chapters 8 and 9 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|45 pages
Music printing and publishing in the fifteenth century
part II|56 pages
Printing techniques
chapter 3|17 pages
‘Made in Germany’
The dissemination of mensural German music types outside the German-speaking area (and vice versa), up to 1650
part III|75 pages
Music printing and commerce
part IV|63 pages
Music printing and intellectual history
chapter 10|20 pages
Theobald Billican and Michael's ode settings in print
Notes on an exceptional transmission
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chapter 11|15 pages
Polyphonic music in early German print
Changing perspectives in music historiography
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