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
choirbook
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non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony
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Material
paper
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Format
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Pricking
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Colour of Staves
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staveline added
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black
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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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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
coronae
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partially texted with one or two texts
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provided with one or two incipits
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provided with single incipit
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untexted
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hybrida
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rotonda
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textura
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Multiple Texts
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calligraphic
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plain initials
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Guide letters only
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often
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rarely
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decorative final long
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end-symbol
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Colour of staves: dark brown
Multiple texts: no
Adhoc adaptation: made for complete additional staves
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London, Great Britain, British Library, MS Royal Appendix 58, c. 1515-40, All folios
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