At 12:19 PM -0500 2/4/06, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Feb 3, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Owain Sutton wrote:
Surely the fact that Petrucci part-books are completely different
to the layout of known contemporary performance sources is in
itself evidence that these may not have been used as such?
Only if his layout presents difficulties for performance. If it
doesn't, then the most sensible interpretation would be that he
simply found it easier/less expensive to print them in an unorthodox
format.
OK, time out, please! Never having seen one of Petrucci's motet
prints myself, that I can remember, I have always assumed that they
were issued in the typical choirbook format of the time, in folio
size, with the 4, 5 or 6 parts present together on facing pages.
Scribes were certainly producing such manuscripts, like the Medici
Codex (c. 1517), during the time when Petrucci was active. If those
motet (and Mass) books were issued in partbook format, that is news
to me, and indeed undermines my argument that the prints were
intended for church use, as I have assumed since grad school.
John
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