Print Culture and Music in Sixteenth-Century Venice

by Bernstein, Jane A.

• ISBN13: 9780195141085
• ISBN10: 0195141083
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume discusses the commerce of music and its connection to the printing and publishing industry in mid-sixteenth century Venice. Music printers occupied a unique niche in the Renaissance printing world because their product appealed to those with sophisticated taste and was not readable by the entire literate public. Bridging the gap between music and other disciplines, Bernstein demonstrates here that the role of a music printer can be discussed as part of the larger cultural and economic question of the success of a commercial enterprise.

Author Biography

Jane A. Bernstein is Austin Fletcher Professor of Music at Tufts University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables	xi
Abbreviations and Glossary	xiii
Introduction	3	(6)
Printers and Publishers: The Merchants of Venice	9	(20)
Inside the Venetian Print Shop: The Manufacturing of a Music Book	29	(44)
The Financing of Venetian Music Books	73	(12)
The Distribution of Venetian Music Books	85	(14)
Composers, Patrons, and the Venetian Music Press	99	(16)
The Houses of Scotto and Gardano: Two Printing Dynasties	115	(32)
Scotto and Gardano: Marketing a Musical Repertory	147	(34)
Appendix A Table of Venetian Music Editions	181	(14)
Appendix B Table of Dedicatees Italian Music Edition	195	(10)
Bibliography	205	(16)
Index	221