Dissemination, Ownership, and Reading of Music in early modern Europe

这个项目从音乐书籍的拥有者和读者的消费角度改写了印刷音乐来源的历史。它集音乐学、书史(特别是阅读史)和目录学于一身，提供了评估早期现代欧洲谁拥有音乐以及他们如何阅读音乐的新方法，将音乐带入围绕早期现代文学的话语。它通过聚集一个由PI领导的不同领域的专家团队来做到这一点，他们在音乐学和图书史方面都有工作记录。他们将共同解决有关音乐传播和消费的问题，利用1500-1545年这一关键时期的1800多本幸存的音乐书籍中隐藏的信息，这一时期是音乐印刷的关键时期。对于音乐书籍来说，一种新的专门复制的方法论已经变得越来越重要，它在这个关键时期为音乐来源的所有权、传播和阅读等问题提供了一种全新的方法，从而导致对音乐素养及其在早期现代欧洲的作用的理解。国际音乐学会的一系列文章和一本专著将坚定地将早期音乐书籍的研究从生产转向消费。除此之外，在一家领先的数字人文机构的支持下，我们将开发一个数据库，首先作为收集信息的方式，然后作为最终用户搜索音乐书籍的所有权和使用的工具。在与书史、音乐学和研究图书馆的顾问和同事协商后，为数据库开发的描述和编目音乐来源注释和标记的新分类法，不仅将为研究设定新的标准，而且至关重要的是，还将为图书馆和藏品的使用设定一个新的标准，远远超出本项目涵盖的时间段和材料。

This project rewrites the history of the printed musical source from the perspective of its consumption - the owners and readers of music books. Operating in the intersection of musicology, book history (in particular, the history of reading) and bibliography, it offers new ways of assessing who owned music in early modern Europe and how they read it, bringing music into the discourse around early modern literacies.It does so by bringing together a team of specialists from different fields, led by the PI with a track record of working in both musicology and book history. Together they will address questions around the dissemination and consumption of music by using the information hidden in the more than 1800 surviving copies of music books from the crucial period of 1500-1545, the 'incunabula' period for music printing. A copy-specific methodology new to music books, which has become of increasing importance for general book history, provides an entirely novel approach to questions such as the ownership, dissemination and reading of music sources in this crucial period, then leading to an understanding of musical literacy and its role in early modern Europe.A series of articles and a monograph by the PI will firmly move the research of early music books away from production towards their consumption. Beyond that, supported by a leading digital humanities agency, we will develop a database, serving first as the way to collect information and later as a tool for end-users to search the ownership and use of music books. The new taxonomy of describing and cataloguing annotations and markings in musical sources, developed for the database in consultation with advisors and colleagues from book history, musicology and research libraries, will set a new standard not only for research, but crucially also for the use in libraries and collections much beyond the time period and material covered in this project.