Music in Print and Beyond

This collection of essays examines the diverse ways in which music -- and ideas about music -- have been disseminated in print and other media from the sixteenth century onward. Contributors look afresh at unfamiliar facets of the sixteenth-century book trade and the circulation of manuscript and printed music in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. They also analyze and critique new media forms showing how a dizzying array of changing technologies has influenced what we hear whom we hear and how we hear. The repertoires considered include Western art music -- from medieval to contemporary -- as well as popular music and jazz.<BR>Assembling contributions from experts in a wide range of fields such as musicology music theory music history and jazz and popular music studies <I>Music in Print and Beyond: Hildegard von Bingen to The Beatles</I> sets new standards for the discussion of music's place in Western cultural life.<BR><BR>Roberta Montemorra Marvin teaches at the University of Iowa and is the author of <I>Verdi the Student -- Verdi the Teacher</I> [Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani 2010] and editor of <I>The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia</I> [Cambridge University Press 2013]. Craig A. Monson is professor of musicology at Washington University [St Louis Missouri] and is the author of <I>Divas in the Convent: Nuns Music and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy</I> [University of Chicago Press 2012].