Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe

by Kate van Orden

Ephemeral, fragile, often left unbound, sixteenth-century songbooks led fleeting lives in the pockets of singers and on the music desks of instrumentalists. Constantly in action, they were forever being used up, replaced, or abandoned as ways of reading changed. As such they document the acts of early musicians and the practices of everyday life at the unseen margins of elite society.

Materialities is a cultural history of song on the page...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199360642
• ISBN13: 9780199360642
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"