St Gallen Singing School History, Medieval Music Scores, facs 1858 German 1stEd

Description: St Gallen Singing School History, Medieval Music Scores, facs 1858 German 1stEd DIE SÄNGERSCHULE ST. GALLENS VOM ACHTEN BIS ZUM ZWÖLFTEN JAHRHUNDERT EIN BEITRAG ZUR GESANGGESCHICHTE DES MITTELALTERS. MIT VIELEN FACSIMILE UND BEISPIELEN [The St. Gallen School of Singers from the 8th to the 12th Century. A contribution to the history of singing in the Middle Ages. With many facsimiles and examples] by P. Anselm Schubiger Einsiedeln and New York, Gebrüder Karl und Niklaus Benziger, 1858. Original edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt borders on front, gilt lettering on front and spine, all edges gilt. Quarto (29 x 21.5 cm.) VI, [2[, 96, 60 pages; with music scores and 8 partly colored lithographed facsimile pages. In German, fraktur type. The front pastedown has the nice ex-libris label of George Fischer. He may have been connected to the George Fischer Company of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. The label, designed by Arthur Elder, shows a monk reading in an abbey library. The introductory text (96 pages) deals with the history of the singing school The 8 color plates show examples of manuscript music and 60 pages of music score of 60 Latin chants (with the texts) come from the St. Gallen codices. ‘The vocal pieces, which are attached to the work as evidence and examples, appear here for the first time in print, they not only contain all of Notker's sequences, which the author was still able to find in older chorale manuscripts, but also various other song pieces by composers who either came from the Saint Gall school or based their works on their models.’ “Born near the Abbey of Saint Gall, Notker was educated alongside the monks Tuotilo and Ratpert; all three were composers, making the Abbey an important center of early medieval music. Notker quickly became a central figure of the Abbey and among the leading literary scholars of the Early Middle Ages.

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