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Verzeichnis deutscher Musikdrucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
Catalogue of sixteenth-century German printed music
Verzeichnis deutscher Musikdrucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
Catalogue of sixteenth-century German printed music
Scaenica progymnasmata.
Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1516, vdm: 80
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:
woodcut
Text font:
Antiqua (Roman), Rotunda
Remarks on printing:
A Rotunda-like type 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: 95.5 x 15 mm (Mortalium, A4r); 94.5 x 15 mm (Digna, B1v); 109 x 15.5 mm (Musis, B2v); 108.5 x 15.5 mm (Cedant, B4r).
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:
Four choruses: 1. Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula; 2. Digna sunt Apolline; 3. Musis poetis et sacro; 4. Cedant fori contentio et iurgia.
Named composers:
Daniel Megel
Related editions:
A-Wn 20.Dd.375, A4r