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Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Print
Kate Van Orden
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Description for Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Print
Hardback. What do we mean when we identify a composer as the creator of a piece of music? Does a printed piece of music embody the work, even if the composer is not the person who puts the work on paper? In this cultural history of Western music's adaptation to print, this title looks at how the concept of musical authorship took root. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 8 tables, 4 music examples. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3JB; AVGC2; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520276505
SKU
V9780520276505
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About Kate Van Orden
Kate van Orden is Professor of Music at Harvard University and author of Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France (2005), winner of the Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society.
Reviews for Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Print
"[Van Orden] writes with such verve and enthusiasm that her book can convey the import of her work to the general reader."
Stephen Smoliar Examiner.com "A well-written study ... useful reading for anyone interested in the history of publishing and the economics of music as livelihood and as a commodity." Critical Margins
Stephen Smoliar Examiner.com "A well-written study ... useful reading for anyone interested in the history of publishing and the economics of music as livelihood and as a commodity." Critical Margins