Editing Music in Early Modern Germany

Dr Susan Lewis Hammond is Assistant Professor in the School of Music, University of Victoria, Canada.

• Contents: Introduction; The anthology and the birth of the professional music editor; Friedrich Lindner: working for a local clientele; Editors and the Germanization of Italian song; From pastoral to prayer: editing Italian music for Lutheran Germany; German consumers of early modern music books; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Shortlisted for the AMS Lewis Lockwood Award 2008. ’ Lewis Hammond’s book contains a wealth of information and is a fine contribution to our understanding of the growing importance of the editor and his role in shaping musical tastes in German speaking lands through the early years of the seventeenth century.’ Notes ’This book is a substantial contribution to the fields of print studies and music history. There are relatively few studies that deal with music anthologists themselves, and this is the first that treats them as a specific group within the network of composers, publishers, printers, musicians and listeners.’ Renaissance Quarterly ’This excellent book combines the philologist’s method, offering up page after page of archival discovery and textual insight, with a cultural historian’s grasp of the various reception discourses of the new scholarship on early modern Europe. Hammond’s historical point of view itself is strikingly fresh for the discipline of musicology... Hammond has contributed here a sterling piece of scholarship, one that promises to become a standard book for future scholarship on music editing.’ German History ’... a fascinating book.’ Fontes Artis Musicae ’... Hammond investigates a wide range of topics... [she] considers issues that are applicable to anthologies in general, such as the importance of paratext, specifically title pages and dedications, for the editor to express his goals. ... This book will be an asset for graduate students and scholars who wish to know more about German culture in the years before the Thirty Years' War, as well as those interested in the history of the editoral process.’ German Studies Review