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Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Commentary Record-ID: i_1498 Full title Ottaviano Petrucci's Patent for Printing Polyphonic Music for Voices, Organ, and Lute Full title original language N/A Abstract Ottaviano Petrucci's twenty-year patent for the double-impression technique of printing polyphonic music for voices, organ, and lute by using moveable types is the first known record of a privilege granted for music printing. It is also one of the early records of patents for invention and improvement in the mechanism of printing, showing that there was no legal distinction between books and printed music or other works of art produced through the press. The commentary argues that while Petrucci was not the first to print music, his claim to a pioneering role in the history of printing is supported by the fact that he was the first to print polyphonic music on a large scale and establish a market for printed music as a distinct niche of the printing and publishing trade. The commentary describes sixteenth-century relations between composers, performers, and publishers in the context of a developing printed music market and discusses contemporary attitudes towards the legal protection of music. Bibliography Bernstein, Jane A., "Financial Arrangements and the Role of Printer and Composer in Sixteenth-Century Italian Music Printing", "Acta Musicologica" 63, nr 1 (1991): 39-56 Reese, Gustave, "The First Printed Collection of Part-Music: (The Odhecaton)", "The Musical Quarterly" 20, nr 1 (Jan., 1934): 39-76 Schmid, Anton, "Ottaviano dei Petrucci da Fossombrone, der erste Erfinder des Musiknotendruckes mit beweglichen Metalltypen, und seine Nachfolger im sechzehnten Jahrhunderte" (Amsterdam: Gruüner, 1968) Vernarecci, Augusto, "Ottaviano de' Petrucci da Fossombrone: inventore dei tipi mobili metallici fusi della musica nel secolo XV" (Bologna: Forni editore, 1971) Related documents in this database Author N/A Publisher N/A Location Venice Year 1498 Language Italian Source scanned from the manuscript held in the Venetian State Archives: ASV, NC, reg. 14, fol. 170r. Physical description 1 folio parchment; 38.5 x 28.5 cm; bound in a wooden board codex; handwritten Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Barbarigo, Agostino (c.1420-1501) Petrucci, Ottaviano (1466-1539) Persons referred to in commentary Antico da Montona, Andrea (c.1480-c.1538) Arcadelt, Jacques (c.1504-1568) Attaignant, Pierre (c.1494-1552) Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782) Caneto, Giovanni Antonio de (fl.1519-1534) Castiglione, Baldassare, Count (1478-1529) Cavazzoni, Marco Antonio (c.1490-1570) Columbus, Ferdinand (1488-1539) Conforti, Francesco di (fl.1504-1510) Corteccia, Francesco (1502-1571) Coryate, Thomas (c.1577-1617) Dall'Aquila, Marco (c.1480-1538) Du Chemin, Nicolas (c.1520-1576) Festa, Costanzo (c.1485-1545) Finck, Hermann (1527-1558) Francis I (1494-1547) Franck, Theodor (fl.1480) Fust, Johannes (c.1400-1466) Gans, Eduard (1797-1839) Gardano, Antonio (c.1509-1569) Gero, Jhan (fl.1540-1555) Giunti, Filippo (c.1456-1517) Griffo, Francesco (1450-1518) Gutenberg, Johannes (c.1400-1468) Hamman, Johannes (fl.1495) Horace (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) Jacquet of Mantua (1483-1559) Lassus, Orlande de (1532-1594) Leo X (1475-1521) Longman, James (b.1740) Madin, Henry (1690-1748) Manutius, Aldus (1449/50-1515) Marcolini da Forlì, Francesco (c.1500-1559) Marenzio, Luca (c.1553-1599) Merulo, Claudio (1533-1604) Negro, Francesco Pescennio (fl.1480) Oeglin, Erhart (fl.1507-1516) Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594) Pasoti, Giovanni Giacomo (fl.1526) Petrucci, Ottaviano (1466-1539) Quintilian (c.35-c.100) Raffaele, Niccolò di (fl.1500-1514) Rastell, John (1475-1536) Regnes, Nicolas (fl.1548) Rizzo, Zuan Battista (fl.1590) Rore, Cipriano de (c.1515-1565) Rudolf II of Habsburg (1552-1612) Sambonetto, Pietro (fl.1515) Schöffer, Peter (c.1425-1502) Schöffer, Peter, Jr. (fl.1529-1547) Scotto, Amadeo (fl.1500-1514) Scotto, Gerolamo (d.1572) Scotto, Ottaviano (d.1498) Seriati, Giovanni Battista (fl.1550) Silber, Eucharius (fl.1480-1519) Tinctoris, Johannes (c.1435-1511) Tromboncino, Bartolomeo (c.1470-1535) Ungaro, Jacomo (fl.1480-1513) Verardi, Carlo (fl.1492) Verdelot, Philippe (c.1480-c.1530) Villaert, Adrian (1490-1562) Whythorne, Thomas (1528-1595) Places referred to Fossombrone, Marche region of Italy Italy Venice Places referred to in commentary Casteldurante, Marche region of Italy Florence Fossombrone, Marche region of Italy France Germany London Mainz Naples Paris Rome Sienna Treviso Venice Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary Statute of Anne, 1710, 8 Anne, c.19 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary Bach v. Longman (1777) 2 Cowp. 623 Institutions referred to N/A Institutions referred to in commentary Cappella musicale di San Marco (Venice) Ottaviano Scotto, Venice, music publishing firm (est.1480) Tribunal of the Executors against Blasphemy, Venice Università di Stampatori e Librai (Venetian Guild of Printers and Booksellers) Venetian Collegio (cabinet of government), in the Doge's palace Venetian Guild of Instrumentalists (Arte de' Sonadori) Venetian Guild of Singers (Arte de Cantatori) Venetian Senate Key words adaptation anthologies author/publisher relations authors, self-publishing guilds incentives monopoly music, protected subject matter music publishing patronage printing, history of privileges, Venetian public performance Renaissance, the typography Responsible editor Joanna Kostylo Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. 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