Working with Early Modern (Music) Prints

Further reading

On early printing in general

Eisenstein, Elizabeth, The printing press as an agent of change. Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe, Cambridge: University Press, 1979.

On music printing culture and materiality of music books

Van Orden, Kate, Materialities: books, readers, and the chanson in sixteenth-century Europe, Oxford: University Press, 2015.

On music types

Krummel, Donald, “Early German partbook type faces”, in: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 60 (1985), p. 80-98.

On Early Modern book and music trade

Bangert, Julia, Buchhandelssystem und Wissensraum in der Frühen Neuzeit, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.

Kmetz, John, “250 Years of German Music Printing (c. 1500-1750): A case for a closed market”, in: NiveauNischeNimbus: die Anfänge des Musikdrucks nördlich der Alpen, ed. by Birgit Lodes, Tutzing: Schneider, 2010, p. 167–184.

Künast, Hans-Jörg, “Buchdruck und -handel des 16. Jahrhunderts im deutschen Sprachraum. Mit Anmerkungen zum Notendruck und Musikalienhandel“, in: NiveauNischeNimbus: die Anfänge des Musikdrucks nördlich der Alpen, ed. by Birgit Lodes, Tutzing: Schneider, 2010, p. 149-165

Rose, Stephen, “The Mechanisms of the Music Trade in Central Germany, 1600-40”, in: Journal of the Royal Music Association 130/1 (2005), 1-37.

On paratexts, especially dedications

Billmayer-Frank, Stefani, Illustri ac generoso Domino. Gedruckte Musikalienwidmungen an die Familie Fugger im 16. und frühen 17. Jahrhundert, Augsburg: Wißner, 2016.

McDonald, Grantley; Rose, Stephen, “Privileges for printed music in the Holy Roman Empire during the sixteenth century”, in: Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe, ed. by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl and Grantley McDonald, London/New York: Routledge, 2021, p. 207-230.

Schmidt-Beste, Thomas, „Wer, was, für wen?: über Funktion und Publikum von Musikdrucken (und Musikhandschriften) um 1500“, in: NiveauNischeNimbus: die Anfänge des Musikdrucks nördlich der Alpen, ed. by Birgit Lodes, Tutzing: Schneider, 2010, p. 91-111.

Wagner Oettinger, Rebecca, „Berg v. Gerlach: Printing and Lasso's imperial privilege of 1582”, in: Fontes artis musicae 51/1 (2004), p. 111-134.

On collecting music books in Early Modern times

Charteris, Richard, Johann Georg von Werdenstein (1542–1608). A major collector of Early Music Prints, Michigan: Sterling Heights, 2006.

Giselbrecht, Elisabeth, “To have and to hold: Music books as collectables”, in: Sources of identity. makers, owners and users of music sources before 1600, ed. by Lisa Colton and Tim Shephard, Turnhout: Brepols, 2017, p. 239-260.

Honisch, Erika; Escriva-Llorca, Ferran; Knighton, Tess, “On the trail of a knight of Santiago: Collecting Music and mapping knowledge in Renaissance Europe”, in: Music & Letters 101/3 (2021), p. 397-453.

Schaal, Richard, “Die Musikbibliothek von Raimund Fugger d. J.: Ein Beitrag zur Musiküberlieferung des 16. Jahrunderts“, in: Acta Musicologia 29/4 (1957), p. 126-137.

Slim, Harry Colin, “The music library of the Augsburg Patrician Hans Heinrich Herwart (1520–1583)”, in: Annales Musicologiques 7 (1964-1977), p. 67-109.

On sources discussed in this module

Lodes, Birgit, „Concentus, Melopoiae und Harmonie 1507: Zum Geburtsjahr des Typendrucks mehrstimmiger Musik nördlich der Alpen“, in: NiveauNischeNimbus: die Anfänge des Musikdrucks nördlich der Alpen, ed. by Birgit Lodes, Tutzing: Schneider, 2010, p. 33-66.

Giselbrecht, Elisabeth; Upper, Elizabeth, “Glittering woodcuts and moveable music : decoding the elaborate printing techniques, purpose, and patronage of the ‘Liber Selectarum Cantionum’”, in: Senfl-Studien 1, Wien: Hollitzer, 2012, p. 17-67.

Databases

RISM - Répertoire International des Sources Musicales
(the central database for music sources, not only printed, but also manuscripts)

VD16 - Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (Index of printed works published in the German-speaking world in the 16th century)
(database of all 16th century prints published in the German-speaking world - not only music prints)

VD17 - Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts (Index of printed works published in the German-speaking world in the 17th century)
(database of all 17th century prints published in the German-speaking world - not only music prints)

vdm16 - Catalogue of early German printed music
(database of early music prints published in the German-speaking world, i.e. from c. 1470 to c. 1550)