Music printing with movable type
Imprenta musical con tipos móviles
- Date
- 1501 · confidence high
- Place
- Venice, Italy
- Credited to
- Ottaviano Petrucci (Harmonice Musices Odhecaton)
- People
- 👤 Ottaviano Petrucci1466–1539
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A triple-impression system (staff, notes and text) using movable type that produced clean polyphonic scores. It turned written music into a commercial object of wide circulation.
Petrucci obtained a 20-year privilege from the Republic of Venice in 1498.
What it led to
- The European spread of Franco-Flemish polyphony and the madrigal
- A music-publishing market and amateur domestic music-making
- The standardisation of mensural notation
Built on
Made possible
- Single-impression music printing (Attaingnant, 1528)
- Music engraving on copper