Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Print - Couverture rigide

Van Orden, Kate

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520276507 ISBN 13 : 9780520276505

Editeur : University of California Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kate van Orden is Professor of Music at Harvard University and author of Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France (2005), winner of the Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520276507
• ISBN 13: 9780520276505
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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