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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paper
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Pricking
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empty ruled staves on grid
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Space Provided for Separate Text
no separate text
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notation and staves extended into margin
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partial additional staves
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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brown
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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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present
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Level of Calligraphy
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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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fully texted with one text
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cursive (Anglicana)
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textura
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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black
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brown
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red
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Multiple Texts
no
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Miniatures Frequency
rarely
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Borders Frequency
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Painted Initials Frequency
rarely
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Painted Initials Type
decorated with grotesque heads
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zoomorphic initial
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Disposition of voice part: 5-part opening
Material: paper
Multiple texts: no
Number of staves: 10
Number of staves: 4
Number of staves: 5
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Perugia, Italy, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 431 (G.20), 1480-90, All folios
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