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Salutis anno 1501,' a collection of 96 pieces in 3 and 4 parts by Isaac, Josquin, Obrecht, Ockeghem, and other masters of the day, the parts printed opposite one another on the open pages of a small 4to. His first work was 'Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A.… Venetiis decimo octavo cal. Petrucci printed no missals, service books, or other music in canto fermo but masses, motets, lamentations, and frottole, all in canto figurato, or measured music, and a few works in lute-tablature. But the process was expensive, and was soon superseded by printing in one impression, which appears to have been first successfully accomplished by Oglin of Augsburg in 1507. The 'register,' or fit, of the notes on the lines is perfect the ink is a fine black, and the whole effect is admirable. In fact he discovered a method of doing by the press what the German printers of patronendruck or pattern-printing, had done by hand.
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Petrucci's process was a double one he printed first the lines of the stave, and then, by a second impression, the notes upon them. His latest work is dated 1523, and shortly after that he probably died [App. 22, 1513, he obtained a patent from Pope Leo X for the monopoly of music-printing in the Roman States for 15 years. At that date he left the Venetian business in the hands of Amadeo Scotti and Nicolò da Raphael, and returned to Fossombrone, where, on Oct. Before 1498 he had established himself at Venice for on May 25 of that year he obtained from the Seignory the sole privilege, for 20 years, of printing 'figured music' (canto figurato) and music in the tablature of the organ and lute-a privilege which he exercised there till about 1511.
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PETRUCCI, Ottaviano Dei, an illustrious printer, the father of the art of type-music-printing, was born of a good family at Fossombrone, between Ancona and Urbino, June 14, 1466.