The series Leuven Library of Music in Facsimile from the Alamire Foundation, with David Burn and Bart Demuyt as its general editors, presents high-quality reproductions of primary music sources of outstanding aesthetic, historical and cultural value. The series is broadly conceived, covering monophony and polyphony, both vocal and instrumental, from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and later times. In order to approach the original documents as closely as possible, each facsimile is in full colour and at original size. Each is also accompanied by an extended commentary, written by a leading expert, that sets out the most recent and up-to-date assessment of the source, including codicology, contents, history and context.
LLMF Vol. 5 A Canon for Mary of Hungary Facsimile
LLMF Vol. 5 A Canon for Mary of Hungary Facsimile
Facsimile of B-Br-VI 18.613 C, Benedictus Appenzeller’s canon Sancta Maria succurre miseris, which was printed on a linen tablecloth as a gift to Mary of Hungary.
The facsimile is sold as a set with the accompanying Study by Eric Jas.
Description
In 1548, the chapelmaster of the Brussels Burgundian court, Benedictus Appenzeller (c. 1480/88-after 1558), composed a four-voice canon that he dedicated to his patron, Mary of Hungary, sister of Emperor Charles V and governess of the Netherlands. This musical setting of the prayer of supplication Sancta Maria succurre miseris (‘Holy Mary, hasten to the aid of the unfortunate’) was printed by Philipp Ulhart in the same year in Augsburg, where an Imperial Diet (1547-48) had taken place shortly before in the governess’s presence. Apart from the customary print on paper, an exclusive and unique print on a linen tablecloth was made for the dedicatee.
This musical tablecloth is currently held at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) in Brussels, only a few steps away from the Coudenberg palace where Mary and her court resided. As the solution of the very complex canon was not clear to all, Ulhart also printed a resolutio, a smaller document that shows how the canon had to be read by its performers.
Specifications
- Author:
- Eric Jas
- ISBN:
- 9789464207514
- Year:
- 2021
- Type:
- Facsimile stof en papier / paper and fabric
- Pages:
- 9
- Dimensions (LxWxH in mm):
- (LxBxH in mm): 535 x 510 x 17 mm
- Weight in kg:
- 2.15
