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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; What Is an Author?; Partbooks, Choirbooks, and Beyond; The Cultures of Print; From Mass to Chanson; 1. The World of Books; Anthologies and Anonyms; The Names of Authors; 2. Music Books and Their Authors; Editors and Craftsmen; Choirbooks, Masses, and Fame; The Real Stories behind Single- Composer Choirbooks; 3. Authors of Lyric; The Parisian Chanson and Composers as Autheurs -- The Lyric Economy at Mid- Century; 4. The Book of Poetry Becomes a Book of Music; Settings of Ronsard's Poetry, 1550-1570 |
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Les Amours de P. de Ronsard Misesen MusiqueA Culture of Music Books; Books, Bibliothèques, and Bibliographies; 5. Resisting the Press: Performance; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Summary |
What does it mean to author a piece of music? What transforms the performance scripts written down by musicians into authored books? In this fascinating cultural history of Western music's adaptation to print, Kate van Orden looks at how musical authorship first developed through the medium of printing. When music printing began in the sixteenth century, publication did not always involve the composer: printers used the names of famous composers to market books that might include little or none of their music. Publishing sacred music could be career-building for a composer, while some types of |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Music printing -- History -- 16th century
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Music publishing -- History -- 16th century
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Music -- 16th century -- History and criticism
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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Music
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Music printing
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Music publishing
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520957114 |
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0520957113 |
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