Early music printing in German-speaking lands / / edited by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Elisabeth Giselbrecht, and Grantley McDonald.

• Superior document: Music and Material Culture
• Author: Gustavson, Royston
• TeilnehmendeR: Giselbrecht, Elisabeth,; Lindmayr-Brandl, Andrea,; McDonald, Grantley, 1974-
• Place / Publishing House: Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, NY : : Routledge,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Music and material culture series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (291 pages, 17 numbered pages of plates) :; illustrations, maps, tables.

The first century of music printing in Germany had its own internal dynamics, affected by political and social events such as the Reformation. Yet it also had an international dimension: German printers set up shops all around Europe, taking materials and techniques with them, or exporting necessary materials such as type. For the first time, this collection brings together the different strands that define the German music printing landscape from the late fifteenth to the late sixteenth century. From the earliest developments in music printing and publishing, to printing techniques and solutions, the commerce of music printing, and intellectual history, the chapters outline broad trends in the production of different genres of printed books and examine the work of individual printers. The book draws upon the rich information gathered for the online database Catalogue of early German printed music / Verzeichnis deutscher Musikfruhdrucke (vdm), the first systematic descriptive catalogue of music printed in the German-speaking lands between c. 1470 and 1540, allowing precise conclusions about the material production of these printed musical sources. The result is a highly original and varied picture of the beginnings of music printing in a geographical region that, until now, has been somewhat neglected.

Table of Contents

part, I Music printing and publishing in the fifteenth century -- chapter Introduction / Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl Elisabeth Giselbrecht Grantley McDonald -- chapter 1 Early music printing and ecclesiastic patronage / Mary Kay Duggan -- chapter 2 German-speaking printers and the development of music printing in Spain (1485–1505) / Margarita Restrepo -- part, II Printing techniques -- Problems and solutions -- chapter 3 ‘Made in Germany’ -- The dissemination of mensural German music types outside the German-speaking area (and vice versa), up to 1650 / Laurent Guillo -- chapter 4 Printing music -- Technical challenges and synthesis, 1450–1530 / Elisabeth Giselbrecht Elizabeth Savage -- chapter 5 ‘Synopsis musicae’ -- Charts and tables in sixteenth-century music textbooks / Inga Mai Groote -- part, III Music printing and commerce -- chapter 6 Melchior Lotter -- A German ‘music printer’ 1 / Elisabeth Giselbrecht -- chapter 7 The music books of Christian Egenolff -- Bad impressions = good return on investment / John Kmetz -- chapter 8 The music editions of Christian Egenolff -- A new catalogue and its implications 1 / Royston Gustavson -- part, IV Music printing and intellectual history -- chapter 9 The cult of Luther in music 1 / Grantley McDonald -- chapter 10 Theobald Billican and Michael’s ode settings in print -- Notes on an exceptional transmission 1 / Sonja Tröster -- chapter 11 Polyphonic music in early German print -- Changing perspectives in music historiography 1 / Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl.