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Musica instrumentalis deudsch (a).

Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1529, vdm: 211

BASICS
Title page:

Musica instru⸗||mētalis deudsch || ynn welcher begrif⸗||fen ist/wie man || nach dem gesange auff mancherley || Pfeiffen lernen sol/ Auch wie auff || die Orgel/ Harffen/ Lauten/ Gei⸗||gen/ vnd allerley Instrument vnd || Seytenspiel/nach der recht⸗||gegründten Tabelthur || sey abzusetzen.|| Mart. Agricola.||

Colophon:

Gedrückt zu Wittemberg || durch Georgen Rhaw.|| M. D. XXiX.||

Author:
Martin Agricola
Printer:
Georg Rhau
Place of printing:

Wittenberg

Year:
1529
Further information on dating: Taken from colophon.
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 70
USTC 676519
VD16 A 1066
vdm
211
Further details:

This edition contains many woodcuts of instruments very similar to those in Musica getutscht, but which are newly cut. The (b) edition (vdm 1312) is a variant edition of vdm 211, which has a different colophon and different text layout on all pages of the last gathering. It is unclear which of those copies which have not yet been inspected belong to edition (a) or edition (b).

Dedicatee:
Georg Rhau
Further contributors: Martin Agricola
Paratexts:

A1v–A2v: Den lesern gnad und fried von Gott.|| (preface by Martin Agricola).
A3r–A4r: Georgio Rhaw buchdru⸗||cker zu Wittemberg || wundsch ich Mart.|| Agricola/|| Gnad vnd frid von Gott.|| (preface by Agricola directed at the printer Rhau), dated “Magdeburg am tage Bartholomei. 1528.”

Illustrations:

Numerous woodcuts of instruments, closely related to those in Musica getutscht (1511).
H2r: woodcut of Pythagoras in a smithy, carrying a pair of scales (75 x 105 mm).

Language:

High German; Latin

Format:
8º
Printed area: 77 x 117 mm (A2r). Marginal lemmata can add c. 5 mm.
Number of leaves:
60 + 3 foldouts
Collation: A–G8, H4; foldouts after D1, E5, F2.
Original foliation:

I–LVI

Autopsy copy:

D-W Musica Helmst. (3); more copies need to be inspected.

Online facsimile:

D-Mbs, D-B, A-Wn


D-Mbs Mus.th.49, A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Schwabacher, Rotunda

Colour printing:

red type on title page

Remarks on printing:

Rotunda is used as a display font. Individual notes as part of the text, either from type or woodcut. Many woodcuts of tablature. In the woodcuts of tablatures the staves, notes, and text are printed together.

Notation:

Tablature (lute: German); Mensural notation; Tablature (organ: German)

Number of staff lines:
3, 5, 10
Number of voices:
1, 4
Measurements:

full-length staff (xxiiiir): 71 x 8 mm

Genre:

example in theory book, music for solo instrument (exc. keyb., lute, plucked instruments), music for lute or other plucked instruments, keyboard music

Repertoire:

Examples to learn the rules of counterpoint, woodcuts to explain rules for making intabulations.

Copies:

*D-Mbs, *A-Wgm, *A-Wn, A-Imf, CH-E, *D-As, *D-B, *D-DS, *D-Gs, D-HTd, *D-ROu, *D-Rp, *D-W, NL-DHgm, *S-Uu, US-CA

Copies in historical catalogues:

A copy of one of these two editions was in the library of Joseph Müller († 1890) and in the library of St Anne in Augsburg (see Schaal).

Related editions:

Musica instrumentalis deudsch (b).

Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1529, vdm: 1312


Musica instrumentalis deudsch.

Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1530, vdm: 214


Musica instrumentalis deudsch.

Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1532, vdm: 212


Musica instrumentalis deudsch.

Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1542, vdm: 213


Musica instrumentalis deudsch.

Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1545, vdm: 1146

Secondary literature:

Ripin, Edwin M. “A Reevaluation of Virdung’s ‘Musica getutscht’.” JAMS 29 (1976): 189-223 (208)
Berger, Daniel, Marelke Greb, Holger Rode. “Noten für den Reformator? Zur Untersuchung der Drucktypen aus dem Wittenberger Franziskanerkloster und ihr Zusammenhang mit dem Musikaliendruck der Reformationszeit." In Heavy Metal. Begleitheft zur Ausstellung im Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle. Halle (Saale), 2014 (176)
Richard Schaal. Das Inventar der Kantorei St. Anna in Augsburg. Ein Beitrag zur protestantischen Musikpflege im 16. und beginnenden 17. Jahrhundert. Bärenreiter: Kassel 1965. (p. 66)
Katalog der musikalischen Bibliothek des verstorbenen Dr. Joseph Müller Bibliothekar der Königl. Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin. … Die Versteigerung … findet am Montag den 4. Dezember 1882 und folgende Tage … statt. 2 vols. (Berlin: Leo Liepmannssohn, 1882) (I, nº 13)

Print facsimile:

Agricola, Martin: Musica instrumentalis deudsch, erste und vierte Ausgabe: Wittemberg, 1528 und 1545. Eitner, Robert (ed.). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1896.


D-Mbs Mus.th.49, C8r
COPIES
D-Mbs (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Mus. th. 49
Condition:

Imperfect: lacking gatherings B and F. These have been replaced with blank pages when the book was rebound.

Comments:

No foldouts.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Red card with a blue spine.
Provenance:

A1r: stamp of the Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis.
Back inside cover: bottom right corner, a blue sticker: Bayer. Schwerbeschädigten || Arbeitsfürsorge E.V.|| München 40 || Leopoldstr. 155 Tel. 36 34 52 ||

Link to online scan:

D-Mbs

A-Wgm (Wien, Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: 676/137
Condition:

The three foldouts are missing the second half of the page.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Brown marbled cardboard with red spine.
Provenance:

On a pasted sheet of paper: „Geschenk par Stéphen de la Madelaine Ex-Dechant à la Chapelle et à la Musique particulierè (sic!) du Roi Charles X“.

A-Wn (Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 396.116-A
Condition:

Last four folios (gathering H) are missing. The last folio is G8. Gathering C is in darker paper (added from other copy?). No folded extra pages.

Comments:

Incomplete

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Brown leather with gold blind-stamping.
Link to online scan:

A-Wn

A-Imf (Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Musiksammlung)
CH-E (Einsiedeln, Kloster, Musikbibliothek)
D-As (Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Tonk Schl 549
Condition:

excellent

Comments:

A handwriting on the title page of the first edition in the composite volume gives the date 1581 and the name of Adam Gumpelzhaimer.

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: White half leather binding on wooden plate (pig skin?). Metal clasps still extant. Rolled stamps. Handwritten index on the spine. Leather tabs still extant.
Content of composite volume:

[1] Enchiridion utriusque musicae practicae [Schumann 1520]
[2] Enchiridion musicae mensuralis [Schumann 1520]
[3] Isagoge de compositione cantus [Schumann 1520]
[4] Rudimenta musicae [Rhau 1533]
[5] Musica instrumentalis deudsch [Rhau 1529]
[6] Musica figuralis deudsch [Rhau 1532]
[7] Von den Proportionibus [Rhau 1532]

Bound with copies from vdm:

Isagoge de compositione cantus [Schumann 1520] - D-As
Rudimenta musicae [Rhau 1533] - D-As (2)
Enchiridion utriusque musicae practicae [Schumann 1520] - D-As
Enchiridion musicae mensuralis [Schumann 1520] - D-As
Musica figuralis deudsch [Rhau 1532] - D-As
Von den Proportionibus [Rhau 1532] - D-As

Manuscript additions or corrections:

Handwritten index by a later hand on a blank first page of the composite volume.

Provenance:

library of Adam Gumpelzhaimer

D-B (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung)
Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: bright cardboard
Manuscript additions or corrections:

The title page contains a handwritten reference to the second edition: “Edit. 2. 1545. ist kopie geändert. S. Lexic. mus. Waltheri” and the date of printing: “1529”.

Link to online scan:

D-B

D-DS (Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Gü 13788
Condition:

delicate

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: brown leather on wood, rolling stamps with remnants of two clasps. Paper label on the spine: "193".
Content of composite volume:

[1.] Musica instrumentalis deudsch. Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1529, vdm: 211
[2.] Quaestiones musicae in usum scholae Northusianae. Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1536, vdm: 569
[3.] Libellus de compositione cantus. Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1538, vdm: 518
[4.] Rudimenta musicae. Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 1535, vdm: 554
[5.] Musica Nikolai Listenii. Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1537, vdm: 559
[6.] Enchiridion utriusque musicae practicae. Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1536, vdm: 515
[7.] Enchiridion musicae mensuralis. [Wittenberg: Georg Rhau], 1536, vdm: 922
[8.] Musicorum libri quatuor. Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1534, vdm: 428
[9.] Compendium musices. Berne: Matthias Apiarius, 1537, vdm: 572

Bound with copies from vdm:

Quaestiones musicae in usum scholae Northusianae [Rhau 1536] - D-DS
Libellus de compositione cantus [Rhau 1538] - D-DS
Rudimenta musicae [Steiner 1535] - D-DS (1)
Musica Nicolai Listenii [Rhau 1537] - D-DS
Enchiridion utriusque musicae practicae [Rhau 1536] - D-DS
Enchiridion music mensuralis [Rhau 1536] - D-DS
Musicorum libri quatuor [Rhau 1534] - D-DS
Compendium musices [Apiarius 1537] - D-DS

Manuscript additions or corrections:

On the verso of the torn flyleaf a scala decemlinealis with clefs and semibreves. Pencil scribbles on the back flyleaf and pastedown.

Provenance:

On the torn flyleaf a handwritten shield with a hand writing the initials L S.

D-Gs (Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 8 MUS IV, 4600
Condition:

The book was heavily damaged but has been restored.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Brown marbled card binding.
Manuscript additions or corrections:

Notes on the last (empty page) of the edition.

D-HTd (Halberstadt, Dombibliothek)
D-ROu (Rostock, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Dd-3
Condition:

Although the cover is damaged, the print itself is in a good condition.

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: white leather
Manuscript additions or corrections:

Some illustrations are coloured by hand.

D-Rp (Regensburg, Bischöfliche Zentralbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Th A 1
Condition:

slightly damaged; strip of vellum used for binding.

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: brown leather with framing rolled stamps and remnants of metal clasps.
Content of composite volume:

1. Das Canzlei und Titelbüchlin, Wittenberg: Frischmut 1538
2. Agricola, Ein kutz deudsche Musica, Magdeburg 1528
3. Enchiridion musicae mensuralis, Wittenberg: Rhau 1532
4. Melodiae prudentiae et in virgilium, Leipzig: Faber 1533
5. Ein Sangbuchlein aller Sontag Evangelien, Magdeburg: M. Lotter 1542
6. Agricola, Musica instrumentalis deudsch, Wittenberg: Rhau 1529

Bound with copies from vdm:

Ein kurtz deudsche Musica [Rhau 1528] - D-Rp
Melodiae Prudentianae et in Virgilium [Schmidt 1533] (b) - D-Rp
Ein Sangbuchlein aller Sontags Evangelien [Lotter 1542] - D-Rp
Enchiridion musicae mensuralis [Rhau 1532] (a) - D-Rp

Provenance:

on the edge: "8". From Mettenleiter collection (inclosure).

D-W (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: Musica Helmst. (3)
Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Dark brown leather (new paper shield on the spine).
Bound with copies from vdm:

Von den Proportionibus [Rhau 1532] - D-W
Ein kurtz deudsche Musica […] gebessert [Rhau 1528 or later] (a) - D-W
Musica figuralis deudsch [Rhau 1532] - D-W

Manuscript additions or corrections:

Small number of additions in brown ink.

NL-DHgm (Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum)
S-Uu (Uppsala, Universitetsbibliotek, Carolina Rediviva)
Shelfmark: Lq.XI.3. n. 663
Condition:

Incomplete: fols. H2-4 are missing.

Comments:

Defective

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: White leather on wood.
Content of composite volume:

1. Enchiridion musicae mensuralis. Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1530, vdm: 629.
2. Musica instrumentalis deudsch (a). Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1529, vdm: 211.
3. Enchiridion utriusque musicae practicae. Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1530, vdm: 510.

Bound with copies from vdm:

Enchiridion utriusque musicae practicae [Rhau 1530] - S-Uu
Enchiridion musicae mensuralis [Rhau 1530] - S-Uu

Manuscript additions or corrections:

Some instruments are coloured by hand.

US-CA (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Harvard College Library)
Partbooks present:

imperfect