El libro litúrgico y la imprenta musical en España hasta 1520

Abstract

The main objective of this doctoral thesis is to deepen our knowledge of the printing workshops that were operating in Spain until 1520, analyzing in particular their activity of printing musical liturgical books for Spanish dioceses, through the analysis of the materials (foundries and woodcuts) that were used in the composition of these musical liturgical printed works. The doctoral thesis has been divided into five main sections: an introductory study, an approach to musical liturgical books, the history of European and Spanish musical printing, a study of musical liturgical production by printers and a typobibliographic repertoire.Through the introductory study, an initial approach to liturgical music printing in Spain is made, where the objectives and methodology followed in this research are developed and where the antecedents and previous publications on this type of printing are discussed. Then, in the second block, the liturgical book and the typology of musical liturgical books are defined, as authors are rarely in agreement on a definition that can reflect the liturgical books created for different catholic churches. Throughout the third block, an initial approach to European music printing is made, focusing on Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany and England, and Spain, in which the route of the invention of music printing and the most representative productions in each of the countries are traced...