The Gardano Music Printing Firms offers the first major overview of this remarkable family's prodigious book production during the late Renaissance. The founder of the business, Antonio Gardano, published nearly 500 music books before his death in 1569; yet over the course of the following four decades, his sons, Angelo and Alessandro, published nearly 1,000 volumes. Consequently, their output represented more composers than any other printer in the Renaissance, and, indeed, the Gardano editions included the music of the most influential composers of the time, including Asola, the Gabrielis, Gesualdo, Lasso, Marenzio, Monte, Palestrina, Schutz, Vecchi, Victoria, and Wert. The original archival and bibliographic research included in this book provides a foundation for the examination of the conditions that shaped the family's production and distribution of its vast list of titles.
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A fine study, whose chapters on the book trade and production are of great interest. --EARLY MUSIC REVIEW 54 This book proves to be complementary to the existing works in the field and is thoroughly deserving of a place on the shelf beside them. --THE LIBRARY Agee's volume is a welcome and useful addition to the literature on music printing in the sixteenth century. It fills in a substantial gap in our knowledge, and he is to be congratulateed for taking on such a heroic task. --RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY
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RICHARD J. AGEE is Professor of Music, Colorado College.
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