The earliest engraved music
7th August 2012
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 […]
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