The Dissemination Of Music In Seventeenth-Century Europe

In this volume fifteen musicologists from five countries present new findings and observations concerning the production, distribution and use of music manuscripts and prints in seventeenth-century Europe. A special emphasis is laid on the Düben Collection, one of the largest music collections of seventeenth-century Europe, preserved at the Uppsala University Library.<BR> The papers in this volume were initially presented at an international conference at Uppsala University in September 2006, held on the occasion of the launching of <I>The Düben Collection Database Catalogue</I> on the Internet. For the first time, the entire collection had been made acessible worldwide, covering a vast number of musical and philological aspects of all items in the collection.