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 cultura
This book presents a varied and nuanced analysis of the dynamics of the printing, publication, and trade of music in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuri
Ephemeral, fragile, often left unbound, sixteenth-century songbooks led fleeting lives in the pockets of singers and on the music desks of instrumentalists. Con
Cultivated by Hand aligns the overlooked history of amateur musicians in the early years of the United States with little-understood practices of music book mak