Printers and publishers provided the interface between composers, performers, and their publics in the complex musical marketplaces of sixteenth-century Italy. While Venice is well known in this regard, Rome is not, yet the Eternal City served not just its own communities but the broader Catholic world. Bernstein's remarkable study takes us deep into its printing houses to reveal how they came to influence musical production and consumption far and wide.
Jane A. Bernstein is Austin Fletcher Professor of Music Emerita at Tufts University. Her books include Print Culture and Music in Sixteenth-Century Venice, Women's Voices across Musical Worlds, the 30-volume series The Sixteenth-Century Chanson, and Music Printing in Renaissance Venice: The Scotto Press (1539-1572), which won the 1999 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society. Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005, Bernstein also served as President of the American Musicological Society from 2008 to 2010 and was elected an Honorary Member in 2014.