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RR 99/440 Music Printing in Renaissance Venice: The Scotto Press (1539-1572) Jane A. Bernstein Oxford University Press New York, NY and Oxford 1998 xix + 1,175 pp. ISBN 0 19 S10231 2 L155.00
Keywords Printing, Music, History, Italy
Although much music circulated in manuscript in the sixteenth century (and indeed until the early nineteenth), scores began to be printed very soon after the invention of the art. It is reckoned that in Venice during the sixteenth century some...