Berg and Neuber: Music printers in sixteenth-century Nuremberg.
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Title
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Berg and Neuber: Music printers in sixteenth-century Nuremberg.
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Identifier
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AAI9820545
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identifier
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9820545
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Creator
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Jackson, Susan.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Allan W. Atlas
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Date
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1998
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Music | History, Modern
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Abstract
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The Nuremberg printing firm of Johann vom Berg and Ulrich Neuber was founded in 1542 and continued as a family endeavor--albeit under a number of different names--well into the seventeenth century, until the Thirty Years' War destroyed the city's economy. The firm became the most prolific publisher of polyphonic music in northern Europe and was responsible for the vast majority of music published in Nuremberg during the sixteenth century.;This dissertation begins with background material on economic and social conditions in Nuremberg and a brief overview of music printing in the city before the founding of the Berg and Neuber firm; it continues with biographies--as complete as the state of the available archival material allows--of all known members of the firm; and traces the history of the firm in as much detail as possible; piecing it together from archival documents and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century publishing sources. This work then covers some technical printing matters and the manner in which the house produced its prints, and, finally turns to one of the several repertoires printed by Berg and Neuber, the polyphonic Franco-Flemish motets. This final section provides an overview of all the motet prints, discusses issues of authenticity and attribution in the four largest motet collections; and questions of reception, religion, audience, and the purposes of the five largest motet anthologies.;The second part of this dissertation is a catalogue raisonee of all the Berg and Neuber music prints and includes short-title catalogues of the various types of music publications. An appendix contains a short-title catalogue of the non-music prints and a transcription of Jacob Meiland's memorial motet for Johann vom Berg.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
