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

Explores the meanings of the term 'author' for seventeenth-century German musicians, examining how compositions were made and used.

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

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

Part of the seminal Cambridge History of Music series, this volume departs from standard histories of early modern Western music in two important ways. First, i