Early Printed Music and Material Culture

Edited by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl and Grantley McDonald Music and Material Culture, Routledge: London and New York This book is about printing, publication and trade of printed music in the early modern period. The geographical study area ranges from Britain to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Netherlands to France and Spain. The section titles reflect the range of questions that our topic raises: Part I Types, Part II Notes, Part III Music printing in Wittenberg, Part IV Music printing in the Low Countries, Part V Printing privileges, and Part VI Book trade. While each chapter studies particular objects from the early printing industry, the authors also try to reveal networks, they study specific repertoires and are interested in the people who bought and used the books. They also deal with the production of individual printers and with strategies of bookselling. All contributions are up to date on the current trend in the humanities, notably material culture. They involve different kinds of materiality, such as the production of type, the use of printed music manuscript paper, or the structure of printed objects. They also engage with the intersection between legal and economic history and gender history. The volume complements our earlier publication Early Music Printing in German-Speaking Lands, which also appeared in the series Music and Material Culture at Routledge in 2018. It is based on a long-term FWF research project about early music printing in the German-speaking lands. Another outcome of this project is the online database vdm Verzeichnis deutscher Musikfrühdrucke / Catalogue of early German printed music (vdm.sbg.ac.at), which became an essential research tool in this area.