Ottaviano Petrucci (jan 1, 1466 – jan 1, 1539)

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an Italian printer. His Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, a collection of chansons printed in 1501, is commonly misidentified as the first book of sheet music printed from movable type. Actually that distinction belongs to the Roman printer Ulrich Han's Missale Romanum of 1476.

Petrucci published Missa L’Homme armé settings in 1501 (or 1502? difference between wiki and textbook).

Instrumental Music Is Printed
1. Instrumental arrangements of popular chansons led to a new genre.
a. The fifteenth century saw the emergence of them in manuscripts.
b. Petrucci printed textless chansons in the Harmonice musices odhecaton
A in 1501.
c. Abstract instrumental music, based on imitation and without a cantus
firmus, derived from these textless chansons.
2. Henricus Isaac was the most prolific composer of these.

Music Printers and Their Audiences
A. The growth of mercantilism spurred the growth of the printing industry, which in turn helped
spread the ideas of humanism.
B. Petrucci began publishing music in 1501.
C. Even though Petrucci published music of the Ars perfecta style, most money was made in
printing vernacular songs.

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