A CHANSONNIER FROM A LIBRARY IN RENAISSANCE AUGSBURG: MUNICH, BAYERISCHE STAATSBIBLIOTHEK, MUS. MS. 1508 (GERMANY)
Abstract
The six partbooks of Munich 1508 contain 118 chansons by such composers as Certon, Claudin, Crecquillon, Gombert, Josquin, and Willaert. Almost forty of these compositions are unique to Munich 1508, while many others do not appear elsewhere until after 1560.^ Chapter I explores musical sources from sixteenth-century Augsburg. Special emphasis is placed on the acquisitions of two families, the Fuggers and the Herwarts, whose libraries contained extensive collections of music. In fact, the first record of Munich 1508 comes from the library of Hans Heinrich Herwart. In Chapter II, the manuscripts owned by Herwart are examined in terms of their repertory and codicological features. Chansons comprise the majority of pieces, and the physical evidence of the watermarks, paper, and scribal concordances indicates that many of the sources probably were copied in Augsburg. Chapter III explores specifically the issues of data and provenance of Munich 1508. Several of its printed exemplars are known to have existed in the Herwart library in the early 1540s, and some physical evidence in the exemplars indicates that Munich 1508 was copied from those very sources. The relationship of the contents of the manuscript to the dated printed acquisitions of Herwart strongly suggests that this source was copied ca. 1542-43. Several other layers of bibliographical and codicological evidence support the contention that Munich 1508 was copied in Augsburg in the early 1540s.^ Chapter IV examines the music, beginning with the chansons a 4, many of which were copied directly from printed anthologies of Attaingnant. Even the unique four-voice works closely resemble the types of chansons published in Paris in the late 1530s and early 1540s. The five- and six-voice chansons represent the more imitative works written by Franco-Flemish composers, yet half of the unica display a striking feature: they are parody chansons, based on four-voice Parisian chansons published between 1529 and 1541. The stylistic and bibliographical evidence of the music also supports a date of compilation for the manuscript of the early 1540s. ^
Subject Area
Music
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JOANN TARICANI,
"A CHANSONNIER FROM A LIBRARY IN RENAISSANCE AUGSBURG: MUNICH, BAYERISCHE STAATSBIBLIOTHEK, MUS. MS. 1508 (GERMANY)"
(January 1, 1986).
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Paper AAI8703279.
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