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Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
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Chorbücher und Handschriften in chorbuchartiger Notierung
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The choir books of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, a collection of 165 manuscripts with polyphonic music, mainly from the 16th and 17th centuries, which is of worldwide importance, have been catalogued online, digitised and made available on the Internet over a period of three years since December 2012 in a project funded by the DFG. Munich became one of the most important music centres in Europe under the reign of Albrecht V (reigned 1550 - 1579) with the appointment of Orlando di Lasso as court musician. This is evidenced not only by the famous collection of printed music from the 16th and 17th centuries, but also by the extraordinarily cultivated choral book tradition. The term 'choral book' refers to a source of vocal music that represents several voices on one or two opposite pages. This form of notation arose in the course of the development of polyphony in vocal music and long before the arrangement of polyphonic music in scores, which is still common today. The earliest manuscript in choral-book-like notation (Clm 560) dates from the 12th century, the central choral books are from the 16th and 17th centuries, with the last examples dating back to the 18th century. 75 choral books in large folio format alone originate from the Bayerische Hofkapelle, most of them from the time of Orlando di Lasso as Hofkapellmeister. Several particularly magnificently illuminated choir books originally belonged to the personal possessions of the Bavarian dukes and electors. In the course of secularisation, further important choir book manuscripts from monasteries entered the court library from 1802 onwards. (from the website)
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Website
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German
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Internet
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