The essays included here present case studies prepared within the project ‘Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a Year of Italian Printed Books’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and hosted at the University of Sheffield. The project asks a simple question: standing in a Venetian bookshop towards the end of the year 1501, what information about music might you encounter as you browse the new printed titles available for purchase? Very few of the books printed in Italy in 1501 were ‘about’ music, but almost all of them mention music in passing, and sometimes at length, whilst discussing something else. These kinds of casual, fragmentary comments on music were surely read by many more people than specialist music theory, the audience for which was probably quite small. To recover these comments, and characterise the contradictory and incoherent field of everyday musical knowledge they comprise, we are reading every book printed in Italy in 1501 cover-to-cover, excerpting every passage mentioning music, sound or hearing. The final product of our project—a co-authored book, yet to be written—will present our findings in synoptic fashion. The essays presented here take a different approach, offering detailed case-studies on particular books within our 1501 corpus.

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十六世纪初意大利的音乐知识阅读：简介

这里包含的文章介绍了“Sounding the Bookshelf 1501：意大利印刷书籍年中的音乐”项目中准备的案例研究，该项目由 Leverhulme Trust 资助并在谢菲尔德大学主办。该项目提出了一个简单的问题：1501 年末，站在威尼斯书店，当您浏览可供购买的新印刷书籍时，您可能会遇到哪些有关音乐的信息？1501 年在意大利印刷的书籍中很少有“关于”音乐的，但几乎所有书籍都顺便提到了音乐，有时甚至在讨论其他事情时还提到了很长的内容。阅读这些随意、零碎的音乐评论的人肯定比专业音乐理论的读者多得多，而专业音乐理论的读者可能相当少。为了恢复这些评论，并描述它们所构成的日常音乐知识中矛盾和不连贯的领域，我们从头到尾阅读了 1501 年意大利印刷的每一本书，摘录了每一个提到音乐、声音或听觉的段落。我们项目的最终产品——一本尚未撰写的共同撰写的书——将以概括的方式展示我们的发现。这里介绍的文章采用了不同的方法，提供了我们 1501 语料库中特定书籍的详细案例研究。