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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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
end symbol
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repeat signs
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signes-de-renvoi
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Miniatures Frequency
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Colour of text: brown
Disposition of voice part: 2-part opening
Indentation for initials: none
Multiple texts: no
Presence absence of text: fully texted with one text
Pricking frequency: none visible
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Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 34 (= MaiM 88), 1521 - c. 1530, All folios
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