Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Prin

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-520-27650-5
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Orden, Kate Van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
What is an Author?
Partbooks, Choirbooks, and Beyond
The Cultures of Print
From Mass to Chanson

1. The World of Books
Anthologies and Anonymes
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 “Auteurs”
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 and Bibliothèques

5. Resisting the Press: Performance

Über Autor(innen)

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.