Music Printing in Renaissance Venice

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... should be greeted with cheers and hoorays. Bernstein has carried off a gigantic feat of scholarship with precision, intelligence, and spirit. Renaissance Quarterly Music Printing in Renaissance Venice won a richly deserved Kinkeldey award from the American Musicological Society for the best book published in musicology in the year 1998, and it should get a standing ovation from her readers for its sheer quality and quantity of research. Renaissance Quarterly At every turn, Bernstein's book shows a delightful zeal for empirical observation, careful argumentation, painstaking standards of scholarship, and a detective's eye in revisiting existing evidence. Renaissance Quarterly Reading archival finds against known evidence about other presses, Bernstein treats us to a walking tour of Scotto's print shop. Renaissance Quarterly ... a masterly work that furnishes at last a comprehensively study of one the most significant music printers in Renaissance Venice, Girolamo Scotto. Renaissance Quarterly ... user-friendly ... highly readable ... this book will need to be on the shelves of most academic music libraries and bibliographical collections ... undoubtedly an impressive achievement and an important contribution to the scholarship of music biography. The Library This is a magnificent volume ... one to be aware of and consult in the library. Early Music Review