Music in the German Renaissance Sources, Styles, and Contexts [Hardcover]

This 1994 collection explores the musical culture of the German-speaking realm in the age of Gutenberg, D?rer and Luther.This 1994 collection of fourteen essays explores the musical culture of the German-speaking realm in the age of Gutenberg, D?rer and Luther. The essays demonstrate the important role played by German speakers in the development of music in the Renaissance, and documents the changing social status of music in Germany during a crucial epoch of its history.This 1994 collection of fourteen essays explores the musical culture of the German-speaking realm in the age of Gutenberg, D?rer and Luther. The essays demonstrate the important role played by German speakers in the development of music in the Renaissance, and documents the changing social status of music in Germany during a crucial epoch of its history.This collection of fourteen essays explores the musical culture of the German-speaking realm between c. 1450 and 1600. The essays demonstrate the important role played by German speakers in the development of instrumental music in the Renaissance, in setting patterns of musical patronage, and in developing commercial music printing. The volume provides an overview of German polyphonic music in the age of Gutenberg, DÜrer and Luther, and documents the changing social status of music in Germany during a crucial epoch of its history.List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Sources: 1. Dufay songs in German manuscripts Lorenz Welker; 2. An Isaac autograph Jessie Ann Owens; 3. Music in the library of Johannes Klein Tom Ward; 4. Heinrich Glarean's books Iain Fenlon; 5. Georg Knoff: bibliophile and devotee of Italian music in late sixteenth-century Danzig Martin Morell; Part II. Styles: 6. Polyphony based on chant in a late fifteenth-century German manuscript Martin Just; 7. An early Missa brevis in Trent Codex 91 Adelyn Peck Leverett; 8. The constitution of the fifteenth-century German tenor lied: drafting the history of a mlSÍ