Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Print.


Kate. van Orden
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
Omfang
1 online resource (283 pages)
Utgave
1st ed.
Opplysninger
Intro -- Imprint -- Subvention -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 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 Mises en Musique -- A Culture of Music Books -- Books, Bibliothèques, and Bibliographies -- 5. Resisting the Press: Performance -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.. - 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 popular song proved too light to support a reputation in print, no matter how quickly they sold. Van Orden addresses the complexities that arose for music and musicians in the burgeoning cultures of print, concluding that authoring books of polyphony gained only uneven cultural traction across a century in which composers were still first and foremost performers.
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9780520957114
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