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Document Details : Title: Hoe schrijf je een gedrukt lied? Subtitle: De invloed van het gedrukte lied op de vormgeving van zeventiende-eeuwse wereldlijke liedhandschriften Author(s): MOELANS, Pieter Journal: Spiegel der Letteren Volume: 50 Issue: 2 Date: 2008 Pages: 191-209 DOI: 10.2143/SDL.50.2.2033308 Abstract : This article offers an analysis of the design of written and printed songs in the seventeenth-century Low Countries. It examines whether an evolution can be observed in the format of texts in manuscript song collections, and whether this evolution can be linked to a growing influence of the conventions regarding printed songs (in songbooks and on one-page broadsides). There are a number of long-term changes in the way individual songs are written in a manuscript: the way verses are separated, the lay-out of the text on the page, music notation and terminology. However, these changes are not the result of printed songs influencing handwritten material. The same can be said for the way song collections as a whole are structured and designed, although individual manuscript authors do single out specific elements of seventeenth-century songbooks which they imitate in their manuscripts. It is not until the eighteenth century that we see manuscript song collections structured according to the conventions of printed examples. |
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