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Scaenica progymnasmata.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1537, vdm: 82

DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Italic, Antiqua (Roman)

Remarks on printing:

Antiqua is used as display font.


Notation:

Mensural notation

Number of staff lines:
5
Number of voices:
3
Measurements:

fol. A5r, second system (Mortalium, Bassus): 67 x 9.5 mm; A7r, first system (Digna sunt, Discantus): 68 x 9.0 mm

Comments on notation:

The chorus Digna sunt Apolline is notated in blackened breves and semibreves, and with the time signature C3.


Genre:

dramatic chorus, polyphonic song

Repertoire:

Choruses at the end of the first four acts: Chorus Mortalium iocunditas, Digna sunt Apolline (for four voices), Musis, poetis, & sacro; Caedant fori contentio & iurgia.

Named composers:

Daniel Megel


Copies:

B-Br, D-Ju, D-WRtl, D-WRz, *D-Z

Copies in historical catalogues:

A copy of this edition was once held in the Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau (see Vollhardt).

Related editions:


Secondary literature:

Vollhardt, Reinhard: Bibliographie der Musik-Werke in der Ratsschulbibliothek zu Zwickau. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1896. (p. 234, No 654)


D-Z 6.8.49 (3), A4v

  
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