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General resources for music prints
- Boorman, Stanley, Eleanor Selfridge-Field, and Donald W. Krummel. "Printing and publishing of music." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, 2001.
- Provides an overview of music printing and publishing practices
- Includes an extensive bibliography
- Bernstein, Jane A. Print Culture and Music in Sixteenth-Century Venice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. ML3790 B47 2001.
- A central book for understanding the origins and development of music printing.
- Microfilms of Renaissance Prints
- List of microfilms available at McGill for specific Renaissance prints
- Organized by year of publication and item code based on RISM
- McGill print edition of the RISM catalogue:ML113 I6 ser AI
- RISM: Online Catalogue
- Better for prints than manuscripts
- Includes inventories and other information on sources
- Does not yet include everything found in RISM's printed volumes
- Contains all of series A/I, A/II, and years 1500-1550 and 1601-1610 of B/I.
- A/I: Single-composer prints before 1800
- B/I and B/II Printed anthologies of the 16th-18th centuries (see below)
- See RISM under General resources for music manuscripts and General resources for music prints of this guide for more details
RISM printed volumes
- RISM A/1: Schlager, Karlheinz, ed. Einzeldrucke vor 1800 (Individual prints before 1800). 15 vols. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1971-2011.
- RISM B/1: Lesure, François, ed. Recueils imprimés, XVIe-XVIIe siècles (Printed collections from the 16th through the 18th century). Munich-Duisburg: G. Henle, 1960.
- ML113 I6 ser.B I
- 4,500 printed collections (anthologies of music by more than one composer)
- Online catalogue contains the years 1500–1550 and 1601–1610
- More years are currently being added online
- Available online at IMSLP
- Marvin Duchow Music Library: Online Scores and Treatises (use VPN off-campus, for best connection results use Firefox as your browser)
- Digitized scores and treatises from the Marvin Duchow Music Library's collection
- See under Early Music Prints: Palestrina’s Missarum Liber secundus (1567) and Willaert’s Musica Nova (1559)