Dedicatee: [Conjectural]
Scoring summary: V (6)
Subject: Chansons
Original Title: LE SIXIESME LIVRE CON= | tenant Trente & une Chansons | NOUVELLES A CINCQ ET A SIX PARTIES | Convenables & Propices a Jouer de tous Instru- | MENS NOUVELLEMENT IMPRIMES | en Anvers L an de Grace M. D. XLV. | Au Mois de Janvier. | SUPERIUS. | Imprime En Anvers Par Tylman Susato. Imprimeur | & Correcteur de Musicque. Demeurant audict Anvers | auprez de la Nouvelle Bourse. En la Rue | des Douze Moys. | Avecq Grace & Previlege De Limpe | riale Maieste.
Variant title on source: LE SIXIESME LIVRE CON= | tenant Trente & vne Chansons | NOVVELLES A CINCQ ET A SIX PERTIES | Conuenables & Propices a Iouer de tout Instru- | MENS NOVVELLEMENT IMPRIMES | en Anuers Lan de Grace M. D. XLV. | Au Mois De Ianuier: | BASIS. | Imprime En Anuers Par Tylman Susato. Imprimeur | & Correcteur de Musicque. Demeurant audict Anuers | au prez de la Nouuelle Bourse. En la Rue | des Douze Moys. | Auecq Grace & Priuilege De Limpe- | riale Maieste.
Material description:
  • Source type
    Source type: Print
    Content type: Notated music
    Date
    1545
    Publishing, printing and production information
    Place: Antwerpen
    Publisher, copyist: Tielman Susato
    Material
    Format, extent: 5 parts
    Printing technique: Typography
    Parts held and extent: S, A, T, B, V 5 and V 6: 16, 16, 16, 16, 16 f.
Publisher:
Notes: The title page of the quinta and sexta pars reads: "LA CINCQUIESME ET SIX/iesme Partie du Sixiesme Livre / CONTENANT TRENTE ET UNE CHAN/sons Nouvelles a Cincq & a Six Parties, Nouvellement / Imprimes en Anvers par Tijlman Susato, Imprimeur & Correcteur de / Musicque Demeurant aupres de la nouvelle Bourse en la Rue / de douze Mois L an M, D. LIIII. [sic] au mois decem. / Quinta & Sexta Pars. / [table of contents]." The other title pages follow the convention of the superius.
On fol. 1v of the superius, contratenor, tenor and bassus part books, and on the title page of the quinta and sexta pars: table of contents.
On fol. 1v of the quinta and sexta pars: dedication headed "AU MAGNIFICQUE SEIGNEUR ESTIENE KELTENHOVER / mon chier Seigneur & amy Thylman Susato, Salut."
The Brussels copy is reproduced in facsimile in CEMF.
SCChanson 29-30, pp. 300-302, distinguishes three editions of this anthology: a first (that described here; copies in Berlin, Brussels, The Hague, Munich, Paris, Uppsala and Venice), a second (the copy in London), and a third (lacking the dedication; copies in Vienna and US-Cbrown).
For further information, see EitnerB 1877, and MeissnerS 1967.
For a summary of Susato's other numbered chansonniers, see the description of 154316.
RISM series: B/I 154514
Source of description note: D-Mbs 4 Mus.pr. 201#Beibd.5
External Links: Early Music Online
Bibliographic reference: 1545g p. 300-302 vol. 2, p. 36-39 vol. 7 p. 25 no. 4
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Austria
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External Links: [bibliographic record]
Belgium
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Material held: plus a second copy of B
Germany
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Material held: A, T
Notes: Als Depositum bis Januar 1975 in D-PA.
External Links: Mikrofilm im Deutschen Musikgeschichtlichen Archiv (D-Kdma) vorhanden
France
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Material held: S5/6
United Kingdom
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Bibliographic reference: no. 4

Italy
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Material held: S
Netherlands
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Material held: S
Poland
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Material held: 4 parts: S, Contra-T, T, B
Sweden
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Material held: SATB
RISM ID no.: 993104433
Last update: June 11, 2023