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Lilium musicae planae.

Ulm: Johann Schäffler, 1497, vdm: 1325

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Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Rotunda, Schwabacher, Textura

Remarks on printing:

Rotunda is used as a display font; Schwabacher is used for the main text. Textura is only used on the title page.


Notation:

Hufnagel notation

Number of staff lines:
4
Number of voices:
1
Measurements:

full-length staff (B2r): 92 x 12 mm


Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Chapters on the scales, the hexachord system, on intervals and psalm tones. At the end of the book there is an exercise for singing solmisation ("Exerc[i]tium Solmisandi"). Music pages: A6-A8, B2-B7.



Secondary literature:

Ammel, Winfried. Michael Keinspeck und sein Musiktraktat Lilium Musicae Planae, Basel 1496. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1970
Duggan, Mary Kay. Printing and Reform. The Beginning of Music Printing in German-speaking Lands in the Fifteenth Century. (under review)


D-Mbs 4° Mus.th. 738, B2r

  
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