A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Patrocinium Musices

PATROCINIUM MUSICES. A splendid collection of church music in 10 volumes, published between 1573 and 1598 by Adam Berg of Munich under the patronage of the Duke of Bavaria, whence its quaint title, 'the protection of music.' For the list of contents see this Dictionary, i. 230. It is printed from types, not in score, but so that all the parts can be read at once from the two open pages, which are of immense folio size. There is a copy in the British Museum.

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