Buxheim organ book

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Buxheim Organ Book, Cim. 352b, folio 169 recto.

The Buxheim Organ Book is to 1460/1470 arising Codex 256 original compositions and arrangements for keyboard instruments for Reichskartause Buxheim in today Unterallgäu . The majority of his pieces are anonymous, but some also come from important composers of the time (e.g. John Dunstable , Guillaume Du Fay , Gilles Binchois , Walter Frye , Conrad Paumann , Baumgartner).

Structure of the book

In addition to arrangements of secular chansons , dance movements and songs, it contains about fifty pieces of a sacred-liturgical character and about thirty preludes in which rhapsodic-figurative and purely chordal parts alternate. The pieces are partly for two and three voices, but four voices can also be found.

Research is still divided on the origin and creation of the Buxheim organ book, which shows no signs of use and can therefore be regarded as a copy for teaching or representative purposes. Presumably it comes from a scribe from southern Germany and came into the possession of the Reich Charterhouse Buxheim near Memmingen via Nuremberg , Munich and Basel in the 16th century . It was offered for auction in 1883 and has since been owned by the Bavarian State Library in Munich. In the literature there is often an attribution to the circle around Conrad Paumann . This would mean that the manuscript comes from Munich, as Paumann worked as a Bavarian court organist in Munich from 1450 until his death in 1473. The organ textbook Fundamentumorganandi comes from Paumann and is contained in full in the Buxheim organ book and the Lochamer song book .

The tablature of the Buxheim organ book consists of a seven-line system and letters, the so-called "older" German organ tablature.

Editions

  • The Buxheim organ book. Description and reprint of musical sentences , in: MONTHS FOR MUSIC HISTORY , published as a supplement to the 19th and 20th year 1887/1888 ( digitized version )
  • The Buxheim Organ Book , edited by Bertha Antonia Wallner, Bärenreiter, Kassel 1958–59, 3 vol. (1-105, 106-230, 231-256 and Fundamentum organisandi )

literature

  • Hans Rudolf Zöbeley : The music of the Buxheimer organ book. Playing process, writing, origin, invoice . (= Munich publications on music history; 10). Verlag H. Schneider, Tutzing 1964 (also dissertation, Munich 1965)

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