Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Print.
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.