Hohenfurt song book
The Hohenfurt song book is a song manuscript of the Cistercian monastery Hohenfurt on paper, which was created around 1460.
The songbook was created in southern Bohemia, in the Czech border region with Bavaria and Austria , and is one of the most extensive sources for late medieval folk songs . 141 leaves of the manuscript have survived, 13 of which are empty. The pagination was only carried out after the songbook was already defective due to heavy use. It contains three pen drawings.
The songbook contains 79 songs and 38 wise men, which in the first part describe the youth story and passion of Jesus and in the second part contain as counterfacts spiritual songs in secular ways by a great sinner , which describe the path of sin and purification. The pieces contained consist of rhyming verses with changing melodies, in their entirety they result in a litany-like narrative.
The notation of the melodies is in chorale notation on a 4-line system. Doric and Ionic modes predominate over Phrygian , Lydian , Mixolydian and Aeolian modes.
literature
- Wilhelm Bäumker (ed.): A German sacred songbook with melodies from the XV. Century after a manuscript of the Hohenfurt Abbey . Leipzig 1895 ( archive.org ).
- Monika Fink, Martin Horyna, (Walter Salmen): Hohenfurt manuscripts. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, subject part, volume 4 (Hanau - Carthusians). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1996, ISBN 3-7618-1105-5 , Sp. 352–355, here Sp. 354 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- Burghart Wachinger : Hohenfurter Liederbuch . In: Author's Lexicon Volume 4, 1983, Sp. 94-99; Volume 11, 2004, Col. 690.