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Flötner Playing Cards  and
Other Curiosities of 16th-Century Music Dissemination from Franconia _____________________________     Die
Flötnerschen Spielkarten und andere Curiosa der
Musiküberlieferung des 16. Jahrhunderts aus Franken.  Herausgegeben von C.
Russell Crosby Jr.  [Mss.
Germanisches National Museum, Nürnberg & British Museum,
London]  _____________________________   Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Bayern,
Neue Folge, Sonderband 1. Wiesbaden, 1967.  19 x 26 cm, x, 39, 33, 23 pp.     Full-color
facsimile of the famous
illustrated playing cards with 4-voice compositions—discantus, altus,
tenor, bassus—notated on their backs. Besides Peter Flötner’s
wonderful
cards, this publication includes “Oberdeutsches Trinklied” (Basel,
Universitäts- Bibliothek, Hs. F. IX. 59-62) and “Rumpoltschen
Spielkarten”. Commentary in Ger, with modern transcriptions of all the
pieces. Wrappers. $83
  
 
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