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Scoring summary: V (X)
Subject: Sacred songs, Motets
Original Title: TENOR. | CANTIONES | SEPTEM, SEX ET QUINQUE | VOCUM. | Longe gravissimae, iuxta ac amoenissimae, in | Germania maxime hactenus Typis non excusae. | AD LECTOREM. | Per mare quem Delphin transvexit & Orphea, vatem, | Concentu dulci Musica nostra refert. | [printer’s mark] | Cum Gratia & Privilegio, Caesareae ac Regiae Maiestatis. | Augustae Vindelicorum, Melchior Kriesstein | Excudebat, Anno, M. D. XLV.
Material description:
  • Source type
    Source type: Print
    Content type: Notated music
    Date
    1545
    Publishing, printing and production information
    Place: Augsburg
    Publisher, copyist: Melchior Kriesstein
    Material
    Format, extent: 5 parts
    Printing technique: Typography
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Notes: 5 vols., S and 5 of 40 fols., A and T of 48 fols., and B of 36 fols.
The complete title page appears only in the tenor part book; the others read: “DISCANTUS (ALTUS, BASSUS, QUINTA VOX) / SEPTEM, SEX ET / QUINQUE / VOCUM / AD LECTOREM. / Delphini gratum fessorem atque Orphea vatem, / Concentu dulci Musica nostra refert. / [printer’s mark].”
On fol. 1 of the tenor part book: poem in Latin headed “MUSICIS. Cunradus Acontius Edelbergensis.” On fol. 2 of the tenor part book: dedication headed “GENEROSO NOBILIQUE / DOMINO, DOMINO JOANNI JACOBO FUGGER, &c. / Alteri Eruditorum Moecenati Germano. Georgius Froelich, / qui & Letus dicitur, Archigrammateus, / Augustae Vindelicorum: / S. P. D.,” and dated on fol. 3v “Vale, Urbis nostrae decus maximum, Augustae Vindelicorum: / An. M. D. XLV. 22 Augusti.” On fol. 4 of the tenor part book: poem in Latin headed “SIGISMUNDI SALBLINGERI / AD SUAVISSIMOS MUSICAE / ARTIS STUDIOSOS, / EPIGRAMMA.” On fol. 5 of the tenor part book: poem in Latin headed “AD SIGISMUNDUM / SALMINGERUM DE LAUDIBUS / Musices, Xysti Betulerii Asclepiadem.” On fol. 5v of the tenor part book: poem in Latin headed “IN SIGISMUNDI SALMINGERI MUSICIS / Augustani Cantica, Phalecium, Hende/casyllabicum Hieronymi Zieg/leri Rotenburgensis.” On fol. 6v of the tenor part book: poem in Latin headed “AD PRAECLARAE ARTIS MUSICES / studiosos Andreas Diether / Augustanus.” On fol. 7 of the tenor part book: poem in Latin headed “LEONHARDUS GEBHART SYN/dicus Augustanus.” On fol. 8 of the tenor part book: poem in Latin headed “FABIANUS KAIN BISCHOFWERDENSIS.” Fol. 9 of the tenor part book = fol. A1.
Foliation and attributions are taken from the tenor part book.
On the last two pages of each part book: table of contents, followed by the colophon reading “Augustae Vindelicorum, Melchior Kriesstein / Excudebat.”
Contents = 15465. For further information, see EitnerB 1877.
RISM series: B/I 15453
Source of description note: D-Mbs 4 Mus.pr. 102
Bibliographic reference: 1545a
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RISM ID no.: 993104446
Last update: October 10, 2024