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Thomas Morley: Elizabethan Music Publisher (Hardcover)
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Thomas Morley: Elizabethan Music Publisher (Hardcover)
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000
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An essential book for scholars and students of renaissance music,
as well as the history of music publishing and print. The
Renaissance composer and organist Thomas Morley (c.1557-1602) is
best known as a leading member of the English Madrigal School, but
he also built a significant business as a music publisher. This
book looks at Morley's pioneering contribution to music publishing
in England, inspired by an established music printing culture in
continental Europe. A student of William Byrd, Morley had a
conventional education and early career as a cathedral musician
both in Norwich and at St Paul's cathedral. Morley lived amongst
the traders, artisans and gentry of England's major cities at a
time when a market for recreational music was beginning to emerge.
His entrepreneurial drive combinedwith an astute assessment of his
market resulted in a successful and influential publishing
business. The turning point came with a visit to the Low Countries
in 1591, which gave him the opportunity to see a thriving music
printpublication business at first hand. Contemporary records
provide a detailed picture of the processes involved in early
modern music publishing and enable the construction of a financial
model of Morley's business. Morley died too young to reap the full
rewards of his enterprise, but his success inspired the publication
by his contemporaries of a significant corpus of readily available
recreational music for the public. Critical to Morley's successwas
his identification of the sort of music, notably the Italianate
lighter style of madrigal, that would appeal to amateur musicians.
Surviving copies of the original prints show that this music
continued to be used for severalgenerations: new editions in modern
notation started to appear from the mid eighteenth century onwards,
suggesting that Morley truly had the measure of the market for
recreational music. Thomas Morley: Elizabethan Music Publisher will
be of particular interest to scholars and students of renaissance
music, as well as the history of music publishing and print. Tessa
Murray is an honorary research fellow at the University of
Birmingham.
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