Musica sucked and pulled out
Musica tutscht und pulled out is Sebastian Virdung's music-theoretical work from 1511 ( Musica gutted and pulled out by Sebastianus Virdung, priest of Amberg, printed in order to learn to transfer all the singing from the notes into the tablatures of these named three instruments of the organs, lutes and flutes recently made. ) and is the oldest printed manual on musical instruments. Similar to the Syntagma musicum by Michael Praetorius , the work aims to classify the known musical instruments of the Renaissance . Virdung added illustrations to the descriptions of the instruments.
When writing this work, Virdung referred to an older instrumental work that is unknown today. “Gotutscht” means here: Germanized; “Moved out” means that he has presented a short version, an “extract”. The systematisation of the instruments carried out in Musica according to the actual sound generator (string, tongue, whistle etc.) is still valid today. Virdung's treatise was significant and trend-setting for instrument making , instrument iconography , instrument classification , instrument sociology and instrument notation until the second half of the 16th century .
Today the work is an important source for music history studies and for historical musical instrument making .
construction
The book was written in dialogue form between teacher and student. This is a form of text that was already popular in ancient times, and in this case it refers to Plato .
Classification of musical instruments
See also: List of historical-music-theoretical literature
expenditure
- Sebastian Virdung: Musica sucked and pulled out. Erhard Oeglin, o. O. [Basel] 1511 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- Sebastian Virdung: Musica tutscht. Edited by Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller. Facsimile reprint of the 1511 edition. Documenta musicologica 31. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1970, ISBN 3-7618-0004-5 .
- Beth Bullard (ed. And translator): Sebastian Virdung: Musica gotutscht. A treatise on musical instruments (1511). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993, ISBN 0-521-03277-6 .
literature
- Gerhard Stradner: Playing practice and instruments around 1500: depicted on Sebastian Virdung's “Musica getutscht” (Basel 1511) (= research on older music history. 4). Association of the Austrian Scientific Society, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85369-515-9 (Zugl .: Saarbrücken, Univ., Diss., 1977).
