Music and the cultures of print
By: edited by Kate van Orden ; afterword by Roger Chartier.
Contributors: Van Orden, Kate.
Series: Garland reference library of the humanities -- v. 2027. Critical and cultural musicology ; -- v. 1; Garland reference library of the humanities -- v. 2027.; Garland reference library of the humanities -- v. 1.
Publisher: Garland Pub.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Music publishing; Printing
Description: "This collection of essays explores the cultures that coalesced around printed music from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Print revolutionized the presentation of musical texts, the conception of written compositions, and the dissemination of music.

The contributors to the volume investigate turning points in the music publishing industry, examine how musical authorship changed in the face of the new social and material economies produced by print, and consider the reception of printed repertories in church, court, salon, parlor, and street.

In highlighting the tensions that exist between musical print and performance, the volume ultimately raises not just the question of how older scores can be read today, but also how printing multiplied the meanings of musical texts for readers in the past."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Printing the "new music" / Tim Carter; title: Elite books, popular readers, and the curious hundred-year history of the Liber usualis / Katherine Bergeron; title: Public music in private space : piano-vocal scores and the domestication of opera / Thomas Christensen; title: Alban Berg remembers Emil Hertzka : composer and publisher between real and ideal / Robert R. Holzer; title: Orlando di Lasso, composer and print entrepreneur / James Haar; title: Authors and anonyms : recovering the anonymous subject in Cinquecento vernacular objects / Martha Feldman; title: Enterprise and identity : black music, theater, and print culture in turn-of-the-century Chicago / Thomas Bauman; title: Bénigne de Bacilly and the Recueil des plus beaux vers, qui ont esté mis en chant of 1661 / Lisa Perella; title: Cheap print and street song following the Saint Bartholomew's Massacres of 1572 / Kate van Orden; title: Afterword : music in print / Roger Chartier, translated by Leslie Sprout.