Table Of ContentThe Dissemination of Music
MUSICOLOGY: A BOOK SERIES
Edited by Hans Lenneberg, The University of Chicago, Illinois
Volume 1 THE EXPERIENCING OF MUSICAL SOUND
Prelude to a Phenomenology of Music
E Joseph Smith
Volume 2 MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL MEANINGS
Christopher Ballantine
Volume 3 MUSIC, FILM, AND ART
Haig Khatchadourian
Volume 4 LATE RENAISSANCE MUSIC AT THE HABSBURG COURT
Polyphonic Settings of the Mass Ordinary at the Court of Rudolf II (1576-1612)
Cannelo Peter Comberiati
Volume 5 WITNESSES AND SCHOLARS
Studies in Musical Biography
Hans Lenneberg
Volume 6 THE TROMBONE
Its History and Music, 1697-1811
David M. Guion
Volume 7 MUSIC FROM THE MIDDLE AGES THROUGH THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Essays in Honor of Gwynn S. McPeek
Edited by Carmelo P. Comberiati and Matthew C. Steel
Volume 8 UNDERSTANDING THE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE
Edited by E Joseph Smith
Volume 9 STRAVINSKY
The Music Box and the Nightingale
Daniel Albright
Volume 10 MUSICAL LIFE IN POLAND
The Postwar Years 1945-1977
Lidia Rappoport-Gelfand
Volume 11 FROM VNALDI TO VIOTTI
A History of the Early Classical Violin Concerto
Chappell White
Volume 12 THE EARLY WORKS OF FELIX MENDELSSOHN
A Study in the Romantic Sonata Style
Greg Vitercik
Volume 13 MUSIC IN ENGLISH CHILDREN'S DRAMA OF THE LATER RENAISSANCE
Linda Phyllis Austern
Volume 14 THE DISSEMINATION OF MUSIC
Studies in the History of Music Publishing
Edited br Hans Lenneberg
Volume 15 METAPHOR
A Musical Dimension
Edited by Jamie C. Kassler
Volume 16 MUSIC-CULTURES IN CONTACT: CONVERGENCES AND COLLISIONS
Edited by Margaret J. Kartomi and Stephen Blum
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The Dissemination of Music
Studies in the History of
Music Publishing
Edited by
Hans Lenneberg
The University of Chicago
Illinois
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Dissemination of Music: Studies in the
History of Music Publishing. -
(Musicology: A Book Series, ISSN 0275-5866;
Vol. 14)
I. Lenneberg ,Hans II. Series
070.579409
ISBN 13: 978-2-884-49117-4 (hbk)
CONTENTS
Introduction to the Series vii
Introduction ix
Chapter 1 Music in the Fifteenth-Century Missal 1
Mary Kay Duggan
Chapter 2 International Dissemination of Printed
Music During the Second Half of the
Eighteenth Century 21
Sarah Adams
Chapter 3 Venetian Printed Anthologies of Music in the
1560s and the Role of the Editor 43
Giulia M. Ongara
Chapter 4 The Dissemination of the Pre-Corellian Trio
Sonatas in Manuscript and Printed Sources:
A Preliminary Report 71
Sandra Mangsen
Chapter 5 Copyists and Publishers in Italy Between
1770 and 1830 · 107
Bianca Maria Antalini
Chapter 6 The Business Affairs of Gabriel Faure · 117
Lisa Feurzeig
Index · 137
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INTRODUCTION TO
THE SERIES
The Gordon and Breach Musicology series, a companion to the Jour
nal of Musicological Research, covers a creative range of musical top
ics, from historical and theoretical subjects to social and philosophi
cal studies. Volumes thus far published show the extent of this broad
spectrum, from Music, Film, and Art; Witnesses and Scholars: Studies
in Musical Biography; to Music in English Children's Drama of the Later
Renaissance. The editors also welcome interdisciplinary studies, eth
nomusicological works and performance analyses. With this series,
it is our aim to expand the field and definition of musical exploration
and research.
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INTRODUCTION
Considering that there is hardly a publication these days that does
not dismiss historical musicology as something either hopelessly·
passe, or at least in bad straits, it may seem daring to issue any book
that openly shows its positivist face. This collection of essays focusing
on the dissemination of music, the history of publishing, is historico
philological with a vengeance; but even though it may be out of fash
ion, to those who know that the overall picture of the musical past is
not yet complete, each of the following essays makes an important
contribution.
When Kerman in his book Contemplating Music opened a Pandora's
box of criticism, citing Curt Sachs who urged us to see the big picture
as long as forty years ago, he gave us a paragraph from one of the
wisest scholars in our field I have ever known:
Do not say wait! We are not yet ready; we have not yet dug
up sufficient details to venture on such daring generalities. This
argument ... will still be heard a hundred years from now, at a
time specialized research has filled and overflowed our libraries.
. . . (Sachs in 1949 quoted by Kerman, Contemplating Music.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, p. 177)
Kerman is right of course to endorse Sachs. But the big boys,
(pace feminist critics), such historians as Abert, Bukofzer, Lang, Sachs
himself, always did see the big picture (in their days a lot easier,
of course); still they went on with their piddling little studies such
as e.g, "Ein neuer musikalischer Papyrus-Fund" (Abert), or stud
ies of fauxbourdon (Besseler), the Caput mass (Bukofzer), and oth
ers, all of which contributed to the big picture for coming genera
tions. New discoveries of however varying degrees of importance
are still made. They change our critical perceptions and Kerman
is wrong to relegate "positivist" research to those of our graduates
