Lilium Musice plane Michaelis || Keinspeck musici Alexandrini.|| [woodcut]

¶ Explicit Liliūm Musice plane Michaelis || Keinspeck de Nürmberga Musici Alexan⸗||drini benemeriti. Vna cū psalmodie vtriusq𝔷 || tam maioris q̃𝔷 minoris intonatione Scđm || omnes tonos. & exercitio solmisandi nouiter || adiunctis. Impressum Auguste per Johan⸗||nem Froschauer. Anno dñi. M.ccccc.||

Augsburg

Theory book

This book imparts basic knowledge about the singing of chant. It was published in various editions by various printers. Fétis cites an edition printed at Straßburg by Knobloch in 1506. This is not attested elsewhere, and is thus probably an error. For the first Augsburg edition printed in 1498 see vdm 1326.

a2r-a2v: ¶Prologus ||

Woodcut on the title page (c. 90 x 90 mm): Pythagoras and Lady Musica standing in front of a wheel with cymbals. Pythagoras holds a hammer and a banner with the solmization sylablles. The Lady has a stick in her left hand and touches the wheel with the other hand. On her right is another banner with the inscription: “Ach muß mir selbs frewd machen || wā schwartze varb wert mir lachen” (“Oh, I must make pleasure for myself when black complexion [i.e. melancholia] laughs at me”). The same illustration is used in the early Augsburg edition from 1498 (vdm 1326).

Latin

D-Mbs Mus.th. 739

D-Mbs

woodcut

Schwabacher, Rotunda, Uncial

Rotunda is used as a display font (title page). The text is set in Schwabacher. Uncial initials. The measurements of the full-length staff are taken from the Vienna copy.

Hufnagel notation

full-length staff (b2r): 94 x 12.5 mm

The quality of the musical examples is quite low, and the notation is quite crudely cut. In the first chapters of the edition smaller music examples (width c. 34 mm) are included in the text (a6-a8). The first full-length staff appears on b2r. Sometimes the printer uses a f-clef and a c-clef in one system, sometimes he only uses a c-clef.

example in theory book

Examples of intonations, recitation formulas, exercises for solmisation, etc.

*A-Wn, B-Br, CH-Zz, *D-Mbs, D-Mu, F-Pn, GB-Lbl, H-Ba, *US-SM

The book is listed in the 1548 Bibliography by Gesner (see Bernstein).

Basel: Michael Furter, 1496, vdm: 1324

Ammel, Winfried. Michael Keinspeck und sein Musiktraktat Lilium Musicae Planae, Basel 1496. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1970
Bernstein, Lawrence F. “The Bibliography of Music in Conrad Gesner's Pandectae (1548).” Acta Musicologica 45 (1973): 119-163 (no. 102)
Giselbrecht, Elisabeth, and Elizabeth Savage. “Printing Music: Technical Challenges and Synthesis, 1450–1530,” in Early Music Printing in German-Speaking Lands, ed. Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Elisabeth Giselbrecht and Grantley McDonald. London: Routledge, 2018: 84–99. (91)