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Music in the German Renaissance

Sources, Styles, and Contexts

  • Editor: Kmetz, John
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Contents

  • 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 musical genre Martin Staehelin
  • 9. Lied and madrigal, 1580-1600 Ludwig Finscher
  • Part III . Contexts:
  • 10. The motet texts of Philippe de Vitry in German humanist manuscripts of the fifteenth century Andrew Wathey
  • 11. Innovation in instrumental music 1450-1520: the role of German performers within European culture Keith Polk
  • 12. The Piperinus-Amerbach partbooks: six months of music lessons in Renaissance Basle John Kmetz
  • 13. The Salzburg liturgy and single-impression music printing Stanley Boorman
  • 14. Music and patronage at the court of Rudolf II Robert Lindell
  • Indices
  • Manuscripts
  • Printed editions of music
  • General.