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Scaenica progymnasmata.

Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1509, vdm: 76

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Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Antiqua (Roman), Rotunda

Remarks on printing:

Rotunda is used as a display font and Antiqua is used for the text.


Notation:

Mensural notation

Number of staff lines:
5
Number of voices:
1
Measurements:

full-length staves: 94 x 15 mm (Mortalium, a4r); 93.5 x 15 mm (Digna, a6r); 110 x 16 mm (Musis, b1r); 109 x 15.5 mm (Cedant, b2v)

Comments on notation:

The four musical examples are notated in two different ways. The first, third, and fourth examples are given in white mensural notation. The second example is given in black semibreves and breves (probably to indicate the choruses triple meter).


Genre:

dramatic chorus

Repertoire:

Chorus at the end of each of the first four acts: Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula (A4r), Digna sunt Apolline (A5v), Musis poetis et sacro (A6v), Cedant fori contentio et iurgia (B2r).

Named composers:

Daniel Megel


Copies:

CH-Bu, D-HEu, *D-KNu, *D-Mbs, D-W

Related editions:


Modern edition:

Holstein, Hugo: Johann Reuchlins Komödien. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Lateinischen Schuldrama, Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1888 (Nachdruck 1973).


D-Mbs Res.4 P.o.lat. 760,28, a4r

  
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