Verzeichnis deutscher Musikdrucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
Catalogue of sixteenth-century German printed music
[Basel]: Johann Bergmann von Olpe, 1498, vdm: 73
woodcut
Textura, Antiqua (Roman), Uncial
Textura used as display type. Uncial used as initial on title page. The text is set in Antiqua.
Mensural notation
full-length staves: 100 x c. 13 mm (Mortalium, a4v); 100 x 12.5 mm (Digna, a6r); 120 x 13 mm (Musis, a7r); 119 x 13 mm (Cedant, a8v)
The four musical examples are notated in two different ways. While the first, third and fourth example are given in white mensural notation, the second example is given in black semibreves and breves (probably to indicate the choruses triple meter).
dramatic chorus, example in theory book
Four choruses: 1) Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula; 2) Digne [sic] sunt Apolline; 3) Musis poetis et sacro; 4) Cedant fori contentio et iurgia.
Daniel Megel
