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The following curated lists focus on those print resources most helpful for research on or related to the music anthologies of the 16th and 17th centuries held in the Music Division's collections. These materials are available for use both on-site in the Performing Arts Reading Room and libraries elsewhere.
The following title links to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.
The following title links to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.
The following title links to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.
Boorman, Stanley, Eleanor Selfridge-Field, and Donald W. Krummel. "Printing and publishing of music." In Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, 2001.
Boorman, Stanley. “Thoughts on the popularity of printed music in 16th-century Italy.” Fontes Artis Musicae, vol. 48, no. 2 (2001), pp. 129–44.
Carter, Stephanie Louise. Music Publishing and Compositional Activity in England, 1650-1700 External. A thesis submitted to The University of Manchester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 2010.
Charteris, Richard. "A Neglected Anthology of sacred vocal music dating from the Sixteenth Century.” Music & Letters, vol. 90, no. 1 (Feb., 2009), pp. 1-34.
Filippi, Daniele V. "A Sound Doctrine: Early Modern Jesuits and the Singing of the Catechism." Early Music History, vol. 34 (2015), pp. 1-43.
Ford Hart, Eric. "The Restoration Catch." Music & Letters, vol. 34, no. 4 (1953), pp. 288-305.
Gavito, Cory M. “‘Quasi Industre Giardiniero’: Giovanni Stefani’s Amorosi Anthologies and Their Concordant Sources.” The Journal of Musicology, vol. 33, no. 4, (2016), pp. 522–68.
Hammond, Susan Lewis. "Pierre Phalèse as music Editor: The Madrigal Anthology Musica Divina (1583)." Fontes Artis Musicae, vol. 51, no. 1, (2004), pp. 93–110.
Hammond, Susan Lewis. "Selling the madrigal: Pierre Phalèse II and the four ‘Antwerp anthologies." Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation, vol. 6 (2008), pp. 225-252.
Herissone, Rebecca. "Playford, Purcell and the Functions of Music Publishing in Restoration England." Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 65, no 2 (2010), pp. 243-290.
Hoekstra, Gerald R. “The Reception and Cultivation of the Italian Madrigal in Antwerp and the Low Countries, 1555-1620.” Musica Disciplina, vol. 48, American Institute of Musicology Verlag Corpusmusicae, GmbH (1994), pp. 125-187.
Jeż, Tomasz. “Significance of Madrigals Anthologies in the Reception of European Repertory in Northeastern Europe." Musicology Today, vol. 1 (2004) pp. 49-63.
Kerman, Joseph. "Elizabethan Anthologies of Italian Madrigals." Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 4 no. 2 (Summer 1951), pp. 122-138.
Packer, Dorothy S. "Collections of Chaste Chansons for the Devout Home (1613-1633)." Acta Musicologica, vol. 61, Fasc. 2 (May-Aug. 1989), pp. 175-216.
Reese, Gustave. “The First Printed Collection of Part-Music: (The Odhecaton).” The Musical Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1 (1934), pp. 39–76.
Temperley, Nicholas. "John Playford and the Metrical Psalms." Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 25, no. 3 (1972), pp. 331-378.
Veldhorst, Natascha. “Pharmacy for the Body and Soul: Dutch Songbooks in the Seventeenth Century.” Early Music History, vol. 27 (2008), pp. 217–85.