Tenor song

The tenor song is a musical genre of Renaissance music .

Originally it was a solo song with instrumental accompaniment . Until about 1530 it became a four-part a cappella - choral setting in which the Cantus firmus in the tenor is with the beautifully designed treble voice corresponds. The tenor song is a typically German development with which the work of the German composers of the time broke away from the Franco-Flemish models.

Well-known composers who wrote tenor songs were z. B. Heinrich Isaac (his well-known song Innsbruck, I must let you is available in both a tenor song and a treble song version) and Ludwig Senfl . One of the most important sources for tenor songs is the collection of fresh teutsche Liedlein by Georg Forster .

literature

• Norbert Böker-Heil, Harald Heckmann , Ilse Kindermann: The tenor song, polyphonic songs in German sources 1450–1580. Edited by the German Music History Archive Kassel and the Staatl. Institute for Music Research Preuss. Berlin cultural heritage.
  • Vol. 1: Prints. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 1979, ISBN 3-7618-0628-0
  • Vol. 2: Handschriften., Ibid. 1982, ISBN 3-7618-0671-X
  • Vol. 3: Register, ibid. 1986, ISBN 3-7618-0736-8