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The past couple of weeks I have written about the opportunities offered by lithography to British musicians in the nineteenth century, and the problems they also encountered. One of the obvious benefits of the new medium was illustration, and a number of recent acquisitions set me thinking about this: This song was published c.1820, i.e. […]

The music of Cornelis Verdonck (1563–1625) was the first to be printed from engraved plates.  Engraving had been used for lute tablature in 1536, and for a few musical examples in Vincenzo Galilei’s Dialogo della musica antica of 1581, but its first use for proper mensural notation was in Antwerp in 1584, when the Flemish […]