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Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Print
Contributor(s): Van Orden, Kate (Author)
ISBN: 0520276507     ISBN-13: 9780520276505
Publisher: University of California Press
OUR PRICE:   $59.40  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles - Classical
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Publishers & Publishing Industry
Dewey: 070.579
LCCN: 2013035478
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 256 pages
 
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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.