single impression

Schwabacher, Fraktur

Fraktur is only used as a display font. The lute tabulature is printed with up to five different signs underneath each other: flags for note value, points to indicate fingers, and letters. Petreius frequently also prints the little flags in the explanatory section of the text. Only the title of the pieces are given at the beginning of each piece, no further text.

Tablature (lute: German)

Measurements:

Height of flags for lute tabulature: 10.0 mm.

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

The book begins with an explanation of lute tablature and how to play the lute, including several examples in lute tablature. There is then a large section with pieces in lute tablature (dances, fifty-two intabulations of German Lied settings, etc). Composer names only through concordances: Benedictus, Ulrich Brätel, Sixt Dietrich, Wolfgang Grefinger, Mathias Greitter, Paul Hofhaimer, Jörg Schönfelder, Ludwig Senfl, Thomas Sporer, Thomas Stoltzer, Paul Wüst.

Named composers:

Alexander Agricola; Heinrich Isaac

Copies:

CH-BEsu, CH-ZO, D-B, D-HAu, D-LEm, D-LEm, *D-Mbs, *D-W, DK-Kk, E-Mn, F-Ssp, GB-Ob, PL-Kj, PL-LEtpn, US-Wc

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

Secondary literature:

Teramoto, Mariko, and Armin Brinzing. Katalog der Musikdrucke des Johannes Petreius in Nürnberg (Catalogus musicus 14). Kassel: 1993 (no. 1)
Bernstein, Lawrence F. “The Bibliography of Music in Conrad Gesner's Pandectae (1548).” Acta Musicologica 45 (1973): 119-163 (no. 293)

Neusidler, Hans. “Ein neugeordnetes künstliches Lautenbuch” (Band 1), Facsimile Edition by Peter Päffgen. In Institutio pro arte testudinis: Series A; 1. Neuss: Junghänel, Päffgen, Schäffer, 1974