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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music treatise(s) with appended polyphony
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paper
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paper (with parchment)
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never
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Colour of Staves
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Ruling Medium
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empty ruled staves on grid
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Indentation for initials filled in
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notation and staves extended into margin
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notation 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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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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brown
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Type of Notation
chant (square)
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void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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present
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
end symbol
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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 and provided with incipit
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provided with single incipit
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untexted
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cursive (humanistic)
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hybrida
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Multiple Texts
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end-symbol
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Disposition of voice part: 4-part consecutive
Disposition of voice part: 4-part opening
Disposition of voice part: 5-part consecutive
Level of calligraphy text: fair
Non verbal performance instructions: signa congruentiae
Number of staves: 7
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Basel, Switzerland, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, MS F VI 26 e, First quarter of the 16th century,
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