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Verovio, Simon, fl.1575-1608
Diletto spirituale
canzonette a tre et a quattro voci con l’intavolatura del cimbalo et
liuto
vocal parts arranged on left side
of opening;, keyboard part and lute tablature on right side; click image to toggle back and forth
Bibliotheca
Musica Bononiensis, IV/38a. Bologna, 1971. 22 x 32 cm, 45 pp. Line-cut
of the Rome, 1586 edition. Mensural notation (with movable clefs),
keyboard score, and Italian lute tablature. This work and Peetrino’s
“Melodie spirituale”, issued by Verovio in the same year, are the
earliest examples of music printed from engraved copper plates. The
beautiful “human” cursive quality of the orthography is evident
throughout—the engraver must write in “mirror image” so that when the
plate is inked, the music comes out correctly. Beautiful laid paper.
Hardbound. $42
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