ABSTRACT

The book draws upon the rich information gathered for the online database Catalogue of early German printed music / Verzeichnis deutscher Musikfrühdrucke (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.

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chapter |15 pages

Introduction

ByAndrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Elisabeth Giselbrecht, Grantley McDonald

part I|41 pages

Music printing and publishing in the fifteenth century

chapter 1|23 pages

Early music printing and ecclesiastic patronage

ByMary Kay Duggan

part II|54 pages

Printing techniques

chapter 3|17 pages

‘Made in Germany’

The dissemination of mensural German music types outside the German-speaking area (and vice versa), up to 1650
ByLaurent Guillo

chapter 4|16 pages

Printing music

Technical challenges and synthesis, 1450–1530
ByElisabeth Giselbrecht, Elizabeth Savage

chapter 5|19 pages

‘Synopsis musicae’

Charts and tables in sixteenth-century music textbooks
ByInga Mai Groote

part III|75 pages

Music printing and commerce

chapter 6|12 pages

Melchior Lotter

A German ‘music printer’ 1
ByElisabeth Giselbrecht

chapter 7|18 pages

The music books of Christian Egenolff

Bad impressions = good return on investment
ByJohn Kmetz

chapter 8|43 pages

The music editions of Christian Egenolff

A new catalogue and its implications 1
ByRoyston Gustavson

part IV|62 pages

Music printing and intellectual history

chapter 9|26 pages

The cult of Luther in music 1

ByGrantley McDonald

chapter 10|19 pages

Theobald Billican and Michael’s ode settings in print

Notes on an exceptional transmission 1
BySonja Tröster

chapter 11|14 pages

Polyphonic music in early German print

Changing perspectives in music historiography 1
ByAndrea Lindmayr-Brandl