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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Italy
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choirbook
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partbooks (complete set)
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Material
paper
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Format
oblong
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Preparation
Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
none visible
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Colour of Staves
dark brown
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double rastrum
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Number of staves
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5
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1-part single page
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3-part opening
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4-part opening
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empty ruled staves on grid
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no separate text
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not in dedicated space
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made for complete additional staves
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notation and staves extended into margin
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staveline added
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
brown
4
Type of Notation
void mensural
4
Monophonic Notation
absent
4
Level of Calligraphy
fair
3
high
1
Non-verbal Performance Instructions
repeat signs
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French
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3
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fully texted with one or two texts
4
provided with single incipit
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untexted
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cursive (humanistic)
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fair
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high
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brown
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Multiple Texts
yes
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Ruling medium: triple rastrum
Colour of staves: dark brown
Multiple texts: yes
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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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