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Medieval Music Database

Leningrad, Königsbibliothek, lat. membr. O. XIV n.6 (Chronicon Hugonis sacerdotis de Rutelinga ad annum MCCXLIX)

The chief manuscript source of the body of German Geisslerlieder (religious folk-songs). Hugo describes the ceremonies of the Geissler and gives both texts and melodies of the songs: 6 songs and an Alleluia.

INVENTORY

RUNGE, Paul. Die Lieder und Melodien der Geissler des Jahres 1349 nach der Aufzeichnung Hugo's von Reutlingen, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1900.

CONTENTS


  1. fol. 30v-31, Nu ist diu betfart so here (sacred song))

  2. fol. 31-31v, Maria muoter, reinû maìt (sacred song))

  3. fol. 32-34v, Maria, unser frowe Kyrie eleyson (sacred song))

  4. fol. 34v-35, Nu tret herzuo der bössen welle (sacred song))

  5. fol. 35v-36v, Nu hebent uf die uwern hend (sacred song))

  6. fol. 36v, Vainent tögen mit den ougen (sacred song))

  7. fol. 42v, Alleluia. Ave benedicta Maria (alleluia))


LITERATURE


  1. BORREN, Charles van den. 'Hugo et Arnold de Lantins', Fédération archaéologique et historique de belgique, XXIX (Congrès de Liège, 1932): 263-272.

  2. REESE, Gustave. Music in the Middle Ages, New York: W. W. Norton, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1940.

  3. SCHRADE, Leo. 'Philippe de Vitry: some new discoveries', Musical Quarterly, XLII (1956): 330-354.

  4. Spechtshart, Hugo: "Flores musicae", 1332/42, edited by Karl-Werner Gümpel, Wiesbaden: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, 1958. Abhandlungen der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse 3.

  5. REHM, Wolfgang. 'Lantins, Hugo', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, VIII (1960): 200-202.

  6. TAYLOR, Jerome. Hugo of Saint Victor: "Didascalicon", a Medieval Guide to the Arts, New York: 1961.

Recordings of works contained in this manuscript

Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: EMI SLS 988 (2 discs) (GB): Maria muoter, reinû maìt;.


Content Approved by: MMDB Director
Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003