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CONTINUUM: Petrucci, The First Printer Of Music

By Milton G. Scheuermann Jr.

Published February 18, 2024 at 3:16 AM CST

This week, Continuum features compositions printed by Ottaviano dei Petrucci (1466 - 1539) of Italy, who is credited as being the first publisher of music. These songs come from the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A, which Petricci published in 1501, and was the first polyphonic music printed from movable type.

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Milton G. Scheuermann Jr.

Milton has been the co-host (with Thais St. Julien) of Continuum since 1976. He is a true New Orleanean, born on Mardi Gras day, attending P. A. Capdau Grammar School and Warren Easton High School. After completing the five year program of the Tulane School of Architecture in 1956 he was drafted into the Army. After a two year stint in the combat engineers in Germany he returned to New Orleans to work with the architectural firm of Goldstein, Parham & Labouisse, becoming an associate in the firm of Parham & Labouisse after Mr. Goldstein’s death. He was appointed University Architect for Dillard University in 1972 and retired from that position in 2002.

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