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Sources and Editions Revision notes Boorman

Printing

(Check lecture slides as well)

Massive risk for Petrucci printing the rst ever book of Polyphonic

music ever in 1501, the Odhecaton A!This was because obviously

expensive process an nothing earlier to compare it to in terms of

how many to prouce, eman etc! "lso not sure how many people

coul even rea the notation#

$o musical expertise or professional training, ha to rely on

technical expertise of others such as the printer etc!

%tarte in the &hecaton " with 'ranco('lemish )hansons, really

o as there woul have been no iea how it woul sell, especially

in *taly! +oul have been less risky to print liturgical music, must

have ha a patron!

"s a result of the risks, he uner(prouce in an attempt to feel out

the market an woul prouce other eitions if necessary# This

seeme to work

-inke to previous work. *saac vs /osuin ebate in 'errara 2ian

e "rtigova etc, he believes mass book of /osuin printe aroun

this time as a weapon to be use in the ebate#

This perio represents an experimental perio in music printing, in

which the market was unknown an rich patrons really coul

in3uence musical tastes by paying for works that they like to be

publishe# Petrucci balance speculative with subsiise eitions all his career