Print culture and music in sixteenth-century Venice / Jane A. Bernstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernstein, Jane A.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music trade--Italy--Venice--History--16th century.

Music trade.

Music printing--Italy--Venice--History--16th century.

Music printing.

Music publishing--Italy--Venice--History--16th century.

Music publishing.

History.

Italy--Venice.

Physical Description:

xiv, 233 pages : illustrations, music, map ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Print culture and music in 16th-century Venice

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This volume discusses the commerce of music and its connection to the printing and publishing industry in mid-sixteenth century Venice. Music printers occupied a unique niche in the Renaissance printing world because their product appealed to those with sophisticated taste and was not readable by the entire literate public. Bridging the gap between music and other disciplines, Bernstein demonstrates here that the role of a music printer can be discussed as part of the larger cultural and economic question of the success of a commercial enterprise.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-220) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0195141083

OCLC:

45044192