Date/Time
Date(s) - 4 Oct 2016
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Columbia University Faculty House
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Jane Bernstein, Tufts University
“Sixtus IV, the Franciscans, and the Genesis of Music Printing in Quattrocento Rome”
Rome was the leading center for book production on the Italian peninsula during the early years of the incunabulum period. It was also the place where music printing emerged when, on October 12, 1476, the German émigré Ulrich Han produced a Missale Romanum. A truly extraordinary volume, this Roman publication is the first dated book to contain music notation printed from movable type.
In his colophon, Han boldly proclaims the innovative technology he employed. He also mentions the other participants involved in the creation of the publication. He states that the Franciscan community at the Roman monastery of Ara Coeli carefully edited the book and concludes the colophon with a tantalizing reference to Pope Sixtus IV, under whose reign the book was completed.
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