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mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480-1530
xl, 541 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 29 cm.
The first comprehensive study of how polyphonic music of the Renaissance was laid out on the written or printed page, and how this influenced the ways it was read or sung. Renaissance sources of polyphonic music not only convey a rich repertoire of some of the most impressive music ever written. From the point of view of their layout or mise-en-page, they are also among the most complex books of their time. They typically combine verbal text, musical notation and other graphic devices, and the different voice parts are arranged to be read separately by the performers, yet to be performed simultaneously. As an integral part of the production and use of these books, the mise-en-page thus provides crucial information for the understanding of the repertoire that is transmitted through them. The present volume combines a number of studies resulting from a research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) into this question, combining the examination of a number of overarching themes (e.g. luxury codices, printed polyphony, music theory books, illumination) with case studies of individual sources.
Part 1. Making polyphonic books in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries / Thomas Schmidt -- part 2. Made to measure : compositional challenges behind the penitential psalm codices from the Munich court / Christian Thomas Leitmeir. The early history of printed folio choirbooks : production and layout / Sanna Raninen. The representation of notation in early printed treatises on music / Stanley Boorman. The decoration of music manuscripts from the Burgundian-Habsburg court / Maia Hofmann -- part 3. Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek = Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 9126 ; The Chansonnier of Margaret of Austria (Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek = Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 228) ; Mechelen, Archief en Stadsbibliotheek, s.s. / Mara Hofmann. London, British Library, Royale MS 20 A. xvi / Joanna Frońska. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus. Ms. 3154 ('Leopold Codex') ; Hradec Králové, Muzeum Východnich Čech, Knihovna, MS II A7 ('Speciálnik Codex') ; The polyphonic manuscripts of the Duomo in Modena / Ian Rumbold
edited by Thomas Schmidt and Christian Thomas Leitmeir.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [489]-507) and indexes.