PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources
Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530
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choirbook
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polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print
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Material
paper
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2-part opening
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empty ruled staves on grid
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notation and staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
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black
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Type of Notation
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Level of Calligraphy
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pointers
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repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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fully texted with one or two texts
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provided with single incipit
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untexted
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cursive (bastarda)
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textura
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Level of Calligraphy
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Multiple Texts
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Borders Frequency
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often
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decorative final long
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littera notabilior
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Bologna, Italy, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, MS Q 21, c. 1525, All folios
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