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Since a recent archival discovery it has been known that Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz was 'Friderici imperatoris cappelanus'. It is remarkable that, in spite of having worked as a composer, he was not named as an imperial 'cantor' in the document in question, which dates from 1452. This is surprising, because many chapel singers who were documented in the archives of the imperial residence would be...
A wide variety of unusual clefs can be observed in the mensural codex from St. Emmeram, available in the Bavarian State Library (Clm 14274): Gamma-clefs, d-clefs, in combination within a single staff-system with clefs such as c1/g3/d5 or c1/gg3/dd5 , and double clef-letters as well, such as gg. Occasionally clefs are almost totally absent, or they occur only at the beginning of a voice-part, etc....
The author seeks answers to questions in the following two areas: 1) What were the origins of the collection of medieval songs and motets from the songbooks of Bohemian literati brotherhoods dating to about 1500, and what was the role of the compositions of Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz in that collection; 2) How was medieval polyphony treated and adapted in Bohemia and in Central Europe from the end...
One of the most interesting research tasks relating to the Strahov codex (dated 1467-1470) is establishing its provenance. Until now the areas considered likely included eastern Silesia or the Bohemian-Silesian borderland (Plamenac, Snow), Moravia, particularly Olomutz and, more recently, the Catholic part of southern Bohemia (Cerny, Mrácková). In this paper the author discusses the links between...
The Codex Speciálnik (c. 1485-1500), an important European music manuscript of its time, contains about 200 pieces of fifteenth-century polyphony. Its repertory includes contemporary music written by leading composers of the second half of the fifteenth century (from Pullois to early works of Josquin and his contemporaries), as well as pieces of Central European origin. A group of compositions called...
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