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De arte cantandi micrologus.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1533, vdm: 503

BASICS
Title page:

ANDREAE OR-||NITOPARCHI MEYNINGENSIS DE || arte cantandi micrologus, libris quatuor || digestus, omnibus musicae studio-||sis non tÄ utilis quam necessa-||rius, diligenter reco-||gnitus.|| Coloniae apud Ioannem Gymnicum || Anno. M. D. XXXIII.||

Author:
Andreas Vogelsang
Printer:
Johannes Gymnich the Elder
Place of printing:

Cologne

Year:
1533
Further information on dating: from title page
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 627
USTC 611507
VD16 V 2127
vdm
503
Further details:

This book has separate sections (called Libri), but are printed in one. Comparison with the 1517 edition (from Leipzig): different format (oblong, not upright), very similar examples, but newly cut; content is exactly the same, musical examples are newly cut, but stay very close to first edition. Further editions after 1550: Leipzig 1555, London 1609.

Further contributors: Heinrich Cother; Nikolaus Marschalk
Paratexts:

A1v: two little poems.
M3r: Epigramma by Henricus Chotherus Brunopolitanis.

Language:

Latin; Greek

Format:
4º oblong
Printed area: 116 x 96 mm
Number of leaves:
72
Collation: A-L6, M6.
Autopsy copy:

GB-Lbl Hirsch I.443

DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Italic, Antiqua (Roman), Text printed from woodcut

Remarks on printing:

Woodcuts are quite neatly done; mensural notation with fine lines and relatively regular.
Most woodcuts are „normal“ black lines. Some, however, are printed inverse (white lines on black background), for example, note values on E6r.
Gymnich also uses individual note signs in the text (woodcut or type?).

Notation:

Hufnagel notation; Mensural notation

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

full-length staff (B1v): 115 x 14.5 mm

Comments on notation:

Hufnagel on five lines; Hufnagel on three line to explain accents. White and black mensural notation only on five staff lines. There are also examples of black mensural notation. There is a sort of score for two voices on a ten-line staff (L2r).

Genre:

example in theory book, music for lute or other plucked instruments

Repertoire:

Numerous examples to explain intervals, musica ficta, psalm intonations, modes, ligatures, mensuration, note values, alteration, accentus.

Copies:

D-Dl, F-Pc, GB-Lbl, I-Bc

Copies in historical catalogues:

A copy of this edition was once held in the library of St Anne in Augsburg (see Schaal).

Related editions:

Musicae activae micrologus.

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1517, vdm: 506


Musicae activae micrologus.

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1519, vdm: 505


De arte cantandi micrologus.

Cologne: Hero Fuchs, 1524, vdm: 528


De arte cantandi micrologus.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1535, vdm: 504

Secondary literature:

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. 64)

COPIES
D-Dl (Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek)
F-Pc (Paris, Bibliothèque du Conservatoire)
GB-Lbl (London, British Library)
Shelfmark: Hirsch I.443
Description of binding: white cardboard binding; probably eighteenth or nineteenth century.
Manuscript additions or corrections:

some underlined sections; a few annotations in text; one short passage crossed out

Provenance:

on inside of binding old shelfmark 31.c.; one bookplate with two stags holding a frame with a bird; on f. 1 r a bookplate of James E. Matthew.

I-Bc (Bologna, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna)