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Cover -- Series -- Materialities Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Music Examples -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I A Material History of the Chanson -- Chapter One Introduction: Livres de chansons -- Chapter Two Feuilles volantes, Distribution and Sales -- Chapter Three Early Collectors and Modern Libraries -- PART II Learning to Read -- Chapter Four Literacy and Song -- Chapter Five Latin Primers -- Chapter Six Civilities and Chansons -- Chapter Seven A New Generation of Musical Civilities: The Quatrains de Pibrac -- Postscript: Cultures of Music -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Materialities is a cultural history of song on the page. Concentrating on print in the early modern period, it approaches its topic via the French chanson, arguably the most broadly disseminated genre of polyphony in the sixteenth century. Following chansons into libraries, music rooms, and schoolrooms, author Kate van Orden charts the social distribution of songbooks, the gradual moralization of song, and the ways children learned their letters and notes, revising several common assumptions about the value early moderns attributed to printed music, the levels of literacy required to perform polyphony, and the way musicians did or did not "read" their songbooks.