ABSTRACT
This collection of essays explores the cultures that coalesced around printed music in previous centuries. It focuses on the unique modes through which print organized the presentation of musical texts, the conception of written compositions, and the ways in which music was disseminated and performed. In highlighting the tensions that exist between musical print and performance this volume raises not only the question of how older scores can be read today, but also how music expressed its meanings to listeners in the past.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|121 pages
Printing the New Music
part II|113 pages
Authors and Entrepreneurs
chapter 6|37 pages
Authors and Anonyms
Recovering the Anonymous Subject in Cinquecento Vernacular Objects*
chapter 7|35 pages
Enterprise and Identity
Black Music, Theater, and Print Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
part III|105 pages
Music in the Public Sphere