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By Kate van Orden

ISBN-10: 0520276507

ISBN-13: 9780520276505

What does it suggest to writer a bit of tune? What transforms the functionality scripts written down by way of musicians into authored books? during this interesting cultural background of Western music’s version to print, Kate van Orden seems at how musical authorship first constructed in the course of the medium of printing. whilst track printing begun within the 16th century, booklet didn't regularly contain the composer: printers used the names of recognized composers to industry books that would contain little or none in their tune. Publishing sacred tune should be career-building for a composer, whereas a few sorts of well known music proved too gentle to aid a name in print, irrespective of how quick they bought. Van Orden addresses the complexities that arose for tune and musicians within the burgeoning cultures of print, concluding that authoring books of polyphony won purely asymmetric cultural traction throughout a century within which composers have been nonetheless in the beginning performers.

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