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Opus aureum musicae.

Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1508, vdm: 388

DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut; empty staff lines

Text font:

Uncial, Textura, Rotunda, Antiqua (Roman)

Remarks on printing:

The woodcuts are re-used from the earlier editions; they start to show signs of use, for example the Guidonian hand. Types 5, 9, 10, 12 (Proctor).


Notation:

Hufnagel notation

Number of staff lines:
4, 5
Number of voices:
1
Measurements:

B4v: full length of top staff: 93 mm, height: 14 mm
top of top staff to bottom of bottom staff: 134 mm.


Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Musical examples to illustrate modes and intervals etc.



Secondary literature:

Proctor, Robert. An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. Part II. MDI-MDXX. Section I. Germany. London: Kegan Paul, 1903 (58, 10423)


D-Mbs Mus. Th. 4º 1780, A5v

  
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