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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.
Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1540, vdm: 83
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:
woodcut
Text font:
Italic, Antiqua (Roman)
Remarks on printing:
Antiqua as display font.
Musical layout:
choirbook
Notation:
Mensural notation
Number of staff lines:
5
Number of voices:
3
Measurements:
A5r, second system (Mortalium, Bassus): 68 x 9.5 mm.
A7r, first system (Digna sunt, Discantus): 68 x 9.0 mm.
Comments on notation:
The second chorus (Digna sunt) has coloured notes in all voices.
Genre:
dramatic chorus
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 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 655)
