Italian music incunabula : printers and type

Book

Berkeley, Calif.

c1990

University of California Press

English

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Berkeley, 1981)

0520057856 (alk. paper)

Printing--Italy--History--Origin and antecedents.

Printed Music; Incunabula; Italy

ML 112 .D8 1992

Duggan, Mary Kay. Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California and Oxford: University of California Press, 1992.

Find information on incunabula (movable type printing music books) in Italy such as procedural information, where production was located, and the people involved. Also provides a directory of incunabula available in libraries today.

Covers the how, who and where of Italian incunabula during the fifteenth century. Includes descriptive bibliography of 156 Italian incunabula in nineteen countries throughout Europe, the United States, and Brazil.

Divided into three sections and an appendix. Section one is a history of Italian music incunabula. Section two covers Italian music type and printers. This section is divided by city; Rome, Milan, etc. Section three contains a list of original incunabula, information about them, and where they are located. The appendix includes documents relating to Jacomo Ungaro, a nine-page bibliography, glossary, and index.

Many facsimiles of printed music examples. Not many sources cover this period of music printing. Extensive bibliography.

Listing on incunabula hard to follow, because there are a lot of abbreviations and the type is very close together.

BYU Mus Ref

3088