Musica Teusch/ auf die Instru=||ment der grossen vnnd kleinen Geygen/ auch Lautten/|| welcher maßen die mit grundt vnd art jrer Compo=||sicion auß dem gesang in die Tabulatur zu ord=||nen vnd zu setzen ist/ sampt verborgener || applicacion vnd kunst/|| Darynen ein liebhaber uñ anfenger berürter Instrument so dar zu lust und neygung || tregt/ on ein sonderlichÄ“ Meyster mensürlich durch tegliche ubung leichtlich begreiffen || vnd lernen mag/ vormals im Truck nye vnd ytzo durch Hans Gerle Lutinist || zu Nurenberg außgangen.|| 1532.||

Gedruckt zu Nurenbergk durch || Jeronimum Formschneyder.|| (fol. Q3r)

Nuremberg

Tablature book

A2r-v: preface
Q3v: errata

Includes introductory essays on playing “Grossgeigen” (violas da gamba), “Kleingeigen” (rebecs or violins) and lutes, and on musical notation.

Title placed within an ornamental border containing the initials „H.G“ and date 1530.
A4r: woodcut of two five-stringed Geygen (without bridges) with labels for each string.
B1v and M4v: open hand with labels for each finger.
C1r and N3v: hands stretching Geyge strings ready for application to instrument.
H4r: Klein Geyge with four strings and bridge, with frets marked.
I4r: Lute with six courses, with strings and frets named.

High German

None

GB-Lbl Hirsch IV 1603

D-B

woodcut

Fraktur

Mensural music printed from woodcuts, lute tabulature printed from type.

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

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First example of tabulature (C2r): height of individual „flags“: 5mm. flags and letters together 9.5 mm. Staff line in the first musical example in mensural notation (explanation of note values on E2v): 107.5 x 13 mm.

music for instrumental ensemble, music for lute or other plucked instruments

Collection of lute intabulations of pieces by various composers; intabulations by Gerle. The collection contains music for solo lute and for ensembles of Gross- and Kleingeigen. Most of the compositions are intabulations of thirty-two Lieder and psalm settings by German composers - Thomas Stoltzer, Ludwig Senfl, Paul Hofhaimer, Johannes Walter, Heinrich Isaac, Machinger, Sixt Dietrich and Pierre de la Rue. There are also two preludes (“Priambeln”) for solo lute, reprinted from Hans Judenkünig’s lute book of 1523 (Grove online). Index of all pieces in Brown pp. 40-41.

D-B, *D-W, *GB-Lbl, *GB-Lbl

A copy of this book is listed in Bibliothecae Traiectinae catalogus (Utrecht: Rhodius, 1608), Qq1v, in the catalogue of the library of the counts of Wurtemberg in Montbéliard (1555) (see Meyer), and in the catalogue of the Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau (before 1614, see Möller).

Nuremberg: Hieronymus Formschneider, 1537, vdm: 67

Möller, Eberhard. Die beiden ältesten Notenkataloge der Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau. In Festschrift Haberkamp. Tutzing: Hans Schneider Verlag, 2002, 13-26. (I, 21)
Meyer, Christian: Un inventaire des livres et des instruments de musique de la chapelle des Comtes de Montbéliard (1555), in: Fontes Artis Musicae, vol. 38, no. 2 (April-Juni 1991), pp. 122-129. (p. 129, Nr. 27)

Gerle, Hans. Musica teusch auf die Jnstrument der grossen unnd kleinen Geygen, auch Lautten ... vormals im Truck nye und ytzo durch Hans Gerle Lutinist zu Nurenberg außgangen (1532), Facsimile Edition. Lübeck: Trre-Edition, 2014