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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Pricking
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Colour of Staves
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empty ruled staves on grid
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variable space, not on grid
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Adhoc Adaptation
made for complete additional staves
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notation and staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
chant (Gothic)
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Monophonic Notation
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
numbers to indicate note lengths
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repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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Miniatures Frequency
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Adhoc adaptation: partial additional staves
Non verbal performance instructions: signes-de-renvoi
Number of staves: 8
Other decoration frequency: never
Pricking frequency: none visible
Production method: Manuscript
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS 215-216, between 1503-18, perhaps 1516, All folios
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