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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020
Munich University MS. 328–331 is an important early 16th-century musical repertory. Its contents of 145 pieces are largely of German origin and most settings are of the genre referred to as Tenorlied. Whereas the majority of pieces in this repertory exist in at least one other source, many settings are unique and have no known concordances. Most of the composers represented by this collection were closely associated with the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, whose large musical establishment at Innsbruck at the beginning of the sixteenth century included Isaac, Hofhaimer, Senfl, Adam Rener and Heinrich Finck. The number of vocal and instrumental performers in Maximilian's “Capelle” is not only substantiated by several surviving contemporary inventories and payment records, but such pictorial evidence as the famous and frequently reproduced series of woodcuts, The Triumph of Maximilian I. The several musical illustrations among the 136 reproductions by Hans Burgkmair, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Springinklee, Hans Scháuffelein, Leonhard Beck and Albrecht Dúrer, corroborate the court records and give some idea of the way in which instruments and singers were combined in different kinds of musical performance. The musical repertory of Munich University 328–331 (hereafter abbreviated and simply referred to as Mub), is just the sort of music described in the various “Schrifttafel” that were intended to be printed with the woodcut illustrations.
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