Codex St. Emmeram

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The Codex St. Emmeram is a collective manuscript from the Regensburg Abbey of Sankt Emmeram , which was created between 1436 and 1459 and contains musical works.

content

The manuscript contains mainly sacred works from the period from around 1370–1450 with more than 270 polyphonic compositions mainly of German, Italian, French and English origin, including 72 movements from masses and 125 motets . Many of the works are counterfactures . Works by Guillaume Du Fay , Gilles Binchois , Johannes Roullet and John Dunstable , among others , are represented. Some of the pieces are individual traditions from otherwise unknown German composers, including polyphonic versions of popular Credo melodies.

The handwriting is partly black and partly white mensural notation and is imprecise in some places.

Lore

The manuscript was started and partly continued by Hermann Pötzlinger , who worked in the Sankt Emmerau monastery from 1448. In the course of secularization , it came into the possession of the Königlich Baierische Hof- und Centralbibliothek, today's Bavarian State Library , in 1811 , where it is kept under the signature clm 14274 . There are similarities with the Trent Codices from 1440 to 1480. A two-volume facsimile edition was published in 2006 by Lorenz Welker .

Performance practice

According to the musicologist David Hiley, it is questionable whether the pieces were performed in medieval St. Emmeram : “We cannot assume that Pötzlinger's collection of songs was performed in medieval St. Emmeram. The difficult pieces would have far exceeded the possibilities of the monastery church at that time. There is no evidence that music of this kind was heard in St. Emmeram at the time ”

literature

  • Dagmar Braunschweig-Pauli: Studies on the so-called Codex St. Emmeram: Origin, dating and owner of the manuscript Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 14274 (olim Mus. Ms. 3232a) . 1982.
  • Gerhard Dietel: Music history in data . Bärenreiter-Verlag , Kassel 1994.
  • David Hiley : Wanted: the scribe of the Codex St. Emmeram. In: mälzels magazine No. 4, 2004 ( online ).
  • Bernhold Schmid , Tom R. Ward, Lorenz Welker , Franz Körndle: Der Mensuralcodex St Emmeran (CLM 14274): A central source for the music of Central Europe in the 15th century and its musical, liturgical and theological requirements . In: David Clive Greer, Ian Rumbold, Jonathan King (Eds): Musicology and sister disciplines . Oxford University Press , 2000. ISBN 0-19-816734-2
  • Bernhold Schmid: St. Emmeram Codex. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
  • Lorenz Welker (Ed.): Mensuralcodex St. Emmeram. Facsimile of the manuscript Clm 14274 of the Bavarian State Library in Munich . Reichert, 2006. ISBN 3-89500-506-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the University of Regensburg from April 23, 2008.