Harmonice Musices Odhecaton
The Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (One Hundred Songs of Harmonic Music,
Background
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The book was edited by Petrus Castellanus, a
The Odhecaton used the triple-impression technique, in which first the musical staff was printed, then the text, and then the notes. Most of the 96 pieces, although they were written as songs, were not provided with the text, implying that instrumental performance was intended for many of them. Texts for most can be found in other manuscript sources or later publications.[5]
The first edition of the Odhecaton (Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A) does not survive complete, and the exact publication date is not known, but it includes a dedication dated May 15, 1501. The second and third editions were printed on January 14, 1503 and May 25, 1504, respectively. Each corrected several errors of the previous editions. Petrucci published two further anthologies, the Canti B and Canti C, in 1502 and 1504, respectively.[6]
Petrucci's publication not only revolutionized music distribution: it contributed to making the Franco-Flemish style the international musical language of Europe for the next century, since even though Petrucci was working in Italy, he chiefly chose the music of Franco-Flemish composers for inclusion in the Odhecaton, as well as in his next several publications.
References
Citations
Sources
- Boorman, Stanley. "Petrucci, Ottaviano (dei)", Grove Music Online, ed. Deane Root (Accessed March 29, 2014), (subscription access) Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
- Boorman, Stanley, Eleanor Selfridge-Field, and Donald W. Krummel. "Printing and publishing of music", Grove Music Online, ed. Deane Root (Accessed March 29, 2014), (subscription access) Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
- Gleason, Harold, and Warren Becker. Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Music Literature Outlines Series I). Bloomington, Indiana: Frangipani Press, 1986. ISBN 0-89917-034-X
- Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A, ed. Helen Hewitt and Isabel Pope (literary texts). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1942.
- ISBN 0-393-09530-4
External links
- Amherst Early Music has published a spiral-bound performance edition of the Odhecaton which lies flat and contains no page turns.
- Facsimile of Harmonice Musices Odhecaton by Ottaviano Petrucci: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project