Ottaviano Petrucci

We talked about the current trends in music. I told him it was wonderful that the public now gets to enjoy printed music more easily because of the techniques by Petrucci and Attaingnant. Music flowed more freely from place to place and the world of music got just a bit smaller. We also talked about how printed music helped promote the artist over the music. When Petrucci published his first collection of motets, artists like Josquin des Prez gained notoriety. What other composer is so well known that all you need is their first name to know who you were talking about. The man became a musical legend, and I think the printing press helped make that happen. His music got to reach far and wide (Burkholder and Palisca…