This collection of essays explores the cultures that coalesced around printed music in previous centuries. It focuses on the unique modes through which print or

This book presents a varied and nuanced analysis of the dynamics of the printing, publication, and trade of music in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuri

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 cultura

Ambitious, versatile, and extraordinarily talented, Tielman Susato carved out a distinguished place for himself in the Renaissance cultural scene. He began his

Library Journal praises the book as "an excellent one-volume ready reference resource for students, researchers, and others interested in music history." Histor