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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Physical type
chansonnier
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choirbook
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choirbook (single quire(s))
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Material
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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normally
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Height of Staves
Colour of Staves
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Ruling Medium
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variable space, not on grid
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no separate text
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Indentation for initials filled in
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notation and staves extended into margin
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partial additional staves
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staveline added
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staves extended into margin
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black
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Type of Notation
chant (square)
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full mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
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poor
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
coronae
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end symbol
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pointers
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repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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provided with multiple incipits
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untexted
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hybrida
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Level of Calligraphy
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Colour of Text
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brown
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dark brown
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Miniatures Frequency
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Borders Frequency
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Painted Initials Frequency
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end-symbol
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Number of staves: 8
Disposition of voice part: 5-part opening
Miniatures frequency: never
Type of notation: void mensural
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Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Banco Rari 337 (olim Palatino 1178), c. 1520, All folios
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