Title: The Production and Reading of Music Sources: Mise-en-page in Manuscripts and Printed Books containing Polyphonic Music, 1480–1530. Ed. by Thomas Schmidt and Christian Thomas Leitmeir
Abstract:'[T]here is no text apart from the physical support that offers it for reading (or hearing), hence there is no comprehension of any written piece that does not at least in part depend upon the forms i...'[T]here is no text apart from the physical support that offers it for reading (or hearing), hence there is no comprehension of any written piece that does not at least in part depend upon the forms in which it reaches its readers.' When Rogier Chartier wrote this in the early 1990s (The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane (Cambridge and Oxford, 1994), 9), he summarized a shift in focus: away from the text as a way to transport meaning towards the text's manifestation on the page. Long before the wider material turn in the humanities, early book historians, going back to the 1960s, started to understand text as an object: an object in which not only the disposition of words but also of non-verbal elements and even empty space have a story to tell about...Read More
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-09-26
Language: en
Type: article
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