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Scaenica progymnasmata.

Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1511, vdm: 77

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Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Antiqua (Roman), Rotunda

Remarks on printing:

A Rotunda-like is text font is used as a display font. The text is set in Antiqua.


Notation:

Mensural notation

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

full-length staves: 94.5 x 15.5 mm (Mortalium, a4r); 93 x 15 mm (Digna, a6r); 109 x 15.5 mm (Musis, b1r); 108.5 x 15.5 mm (Cedant, B2v)

Comments on notation:

The four musical examples are notated in two different ways. While 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 chorus' triple meter).


Genre:

dramatic chorus

Repertoire:

Chorus at the end of the first four acts: 1. Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula; 2. Digna sunt Apolline; 3. Musis poetis et sacro; 4. Cedant fori contentio et iurgia. Mention of the composer in the addition "Acta ludis Februis": "Modos fecit Daniel megel" (b5r).

Named composers:

Daniel Megel


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 P.o.lat. 756,23, a4r

  
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