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Compendiaria musicae artis editio.

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1517, vdm: 501

BASICS
Title page:

Compendiaria Musice || artis aeditio, cuncta q̃ ad practicam attinent || mira quadam breuitate complectens.|| ¶ Cum quibusdam nouis additionibus.|| [woodcut of Pythagoras weighing hammers] || Inuentum Samij modosq𝔷 vatis || Si paucis cupias habere verbis || Me paruum/ facito/ legas libellum || Et paruo redimas/ vale viator || ¶ Lipsi impressit Vuolffgangus Monaceñ. 1517.||

Colophon:

fol. C5v: Lipsi Vuolffgangus Monaceñ. impressit. Anno 1517.|| Et in vigilia visitationis Marie foeliciter finiuit.||

Author:
Michael Koßwick
Printer:
Wolfgang Stöckel
Place of printing:

Leipzig

Year:
1517
Further information on dating: from title page and colophon
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 460
VD16 ZV 9178
vdm
501
Further contributors: Michael Koßwick
Paratexts:

A1v-2r: Reuerendo in Christo patri ac dno dno Balthasari coenobij Dobrilucensis Abbati… Michael Koswick artium ac philosophiae magister S.P.D. (preface, dated Lipsi Calendis Aprilibus. Anno partus deipare virginis. Millesimo quingentesimosextodecimo).
A2r: Tetrastichon in liuidum.

Illustrations:

title woodcut: Pythagoras holding a pair of scales with a hammer on one and two bells on the other side; he stands outdoors, in front of a blacksmith where three men are hitting hammers on an anvil; in the background is a village with a mill and a castle on a hill; on the top „PI TAGORAS“.

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 110 x 165 mm
Number of leaves:
16
Collation: A4, B-C6 (last folio blank).
Autopsy copy:

D-Dl MB.8.363

Online facsimile:

US-Wc


US-Wc ML171.K73, A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Textura, Rotunda

Colour printing:

red type on title page

Notation:

Hufnagel notation; Mensural notation

Number of staff lines:
3, 4, 5, 10
Number of voices:
1, 2, 3
Measurements:

staff lines (A3r): 109 x 9.5 mm

Comments on notation:

Two tables to show how to compose for several voices.

Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Musical examples for hexachords, modes, intervals, psalm intonations, note values, ligatures, proportion, rules of counterpoint.

Copies:

*D-Dl, US-Wc

Related editions:

Compendiaria musicae artis editio (a).

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1516, vdm: 498


Compendiaria musicae artis editio (b).

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1516, vdm: 500


Compendiaria musicae artis editio.

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1518, vdm: 499


Compendiaria musicae artis editio.

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1519, vdm: 502


Compendiaria musicae artis editio.

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1520, vdm: 497


US-Wc ML171.K73, A2v
COPIES
D-Dl (Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: MB.8.363
Condition:

Fol. C6 missing.

US-Wc (Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Music Division)
Shelfmark: ML171 .K73
Link to online scan:

US-Wc