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AARON, Pietro, c.1490-1545

Trattato della natura et cognitione di tutti gli tuoni di canto figurato non da altrui piu scritti. A Facsimile of the Venice, 1525 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/129. New York, 1979. 22 x 34 cm, 45 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1525 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2595]


ACCADEMICO BIZZARRO CAPRICCIOSO, fl.1620-23

Secondo libro de trastulli estivi concertati à due, tre, & quattro voci con il basso continuo del bizarro Accademico capriccioso. [Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 22. Stuttgart, 1998. 14 x 21 cm, 4 partbooks, 92 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1621 edition. Vocal settings with basso continuo, ten a2, six a3 and two a4 plus 2 violins. One piece is by Girolamo Avanzolini and one of the instrumental works is by Massimiliano Fredutii. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $59 [item no.7658]


AGUILERA DE HEREDIA, Sebastián de, 1561-1627

Canticum beatissimae Verginis Deiparae Mariae.

Zaragoza, 1990. 41 x 55 cm, iii, 397 pp. Beautiful line-cut of the Cabarte edition, Zaragoza, 1618. Impressive collection of 32 Magnificats for 4 to 8 voices. Mensural notation in the original 2˚ choirbook format. Special “Torreón” laid paper by Guarro with binding in green linen. Limited edition of 500 copies. $383 [item no.4145]


AICH, Arnt von, b.?-c.1528 [publisher]

Liederbuch des Arndt von Aich Köln 1519. [In diessem Buechlein fynt mann LVVV. hübscher Lieder myt Discant, Alt, Bas, und Tenor lustick zu syngen. Auck etlich zu sleiten, schwegelen, und an deren musicalisch Instrumenten artlichen zugebrauchten]. [Universitätsbibliothek, Basel].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 4. Stuttgart, 1997. Oblong, 15 x 10 cm, 4 partbooks, 432 pp. Line-cut of the Cologne, 1519 print. Beautiful wood-block printed collection of 80 lieder, a4, appropriate for voices and/or instruments. The tenor partbook contains the complete texts of each lied. Composers include Hofhaimer, Isaac, Rener and Grefinger. Hardbound in decorative paper with matching slipcase. $95 [item no.8331]


AINSWORTH, Henry, 1570-c.1622

The Music of Henry Ainsworth’s Psalter (Amsterdam, 1612). Lorraine Inserra and H. Wiley Hitchcock.

I.S.A.M. Monographs, 15. Brooklyn, 1981. 18 x 22 cm, vii, 128, with 45 illus pp. Line-cut of all the 39 tunes in the very psalter that the Pilgrims brought with them to Plymouth Colony in 1620. Historical introduction and transcriptions. Wrappers. $30 [item no.1973]


ALISON, Richard, b.?-c.1609

The Psalmes of David in Meter 1599. Edited by Ian Harwood. [British Library, K.7.f.10].

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 1. London, 2/ 1980. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 152 pp. Line-cut. A much admired collection of pieces a4, mainly for voice and lute, but with alternative methods of performance possible. Notated in French lute tablature, cittern tablature and mensural notation and printed in table book format. Wrappers. $82 [item no.2987]


ANERIO, Felici, c.1560-1614

Canzonette a quattro voci [libro primo]. [Bischöfliche Bibliothek, Regensburg].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 74. Stuttgart, 2016. 18 x 22 cm, 4 partbooks, 88 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1586 edition partbook edition. 22 4-voice settings (canto I, canto II, alto, basso). First ever facsimile of a publication solely dedicated to this important Roman madrigalist. Wrappers, with portfolio in decorative paper. $42 [item no.9526]


ANTICO, Andrea, c.1480-d.? [publisher]

Canzoni nove con alcune scelte de vari libri. Rom, 1510. [Universitätsbibliothek Basel].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 59. Stuttgart, 2009. Oblong, 27 x 20 cm, 86, ivi pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1510 edition. A unique print—Andrea Antico’s first—in the possession of the Basel University Library, with title page in woodcut that immortalizes the purchaser and first owner of the volume: the humanist Bonifacius Amerbach. The collection, comprised of 41 motets for 4 voices is engraved with incredible skill on wood blocks. Tromboncino is the best represented composer in the collection (18 works). Afterword by Martin Kirnbauer. Hardbound in decorative paper. $36 [item no.9069]


Liber quindecim missarum electarum quae per excellentissimos musicos compositae fuerunt (Rom: Andrea Antico 1516) (RISM 1516[1]). [Stadtbibl. Baden/Schweiz].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 52. Stuttgart, 2006. 29 x 42 cm, 326, iii pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1516 edition. This exquisite choirbook—executed entirely with woodblock engraving—is the first sacred music printed in Rome. In the dedication to Pope Leo X Antico mentions he spent three years laborious preparing the woodcuts for this publication. The graphic artist responsible for the cover page designs as well as numerous illustrations that appear throughout the print was probably Giovanbattista Columba. A gem for music historian and performer alike. The volume contains 15 masses, 3 by Josquin, 3 by Brumel (including Missa de beata virgine), 3 by Fevin, 2 each by de la Rue and Mouton, and 1 each by Pippelare and Rossell. Afterword by Martin Kirnbauer. Hardbound in decorative paper. $190 (more info... ) [item no.8744]


Motetti novi e chanzoni franciose a quatro sopra doi.

Geneva, 1982. Oblong, 18 x 13 cm, 76 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1520 edition. Antico printed these pieces with movable type in two impressions. Unique collection of canonic chansons and motets for four voices (notated in two) by Willaert, Mouton, Prioris, Divitis, Vassoris, de la Rue, etc. Wrappers. $25 [item no.1316]


ATTAINGNANT, Pierre, c.1494-1552 [publisher]

[Chansons, voice, lute] Très brève et familière introduction pour . . . jouer toutes chansons réduictes en la tablature de lutz. Introduction de François Lesure. Index.

Geneva, 1988. Oblong, 15 x 11 cm, xi, 120 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1529 edition. Early French collection of instrumental music with preludes and transcriptions of 35 Parisian chansons, in French lute tablature (mostly by Claudin de Sermisy). Many for voice & lute and lute solo. Begins with rules for playing the instrument. Wrappers. $48 [item no.956]


[Motet & magnificat collections, books 1-13] 1) Liber primus quinque et viginti musicales... 2) Liber secundus... 3) Liber tertius... 4) Liber quartus... 5) Liber quintus... 6) Liber sextus... 7) Liber septimus... 8) Liber octavus... 9) Lib. nonus... 10) Lib. decimus... 11) Lib. undecimus... 12) Lib. duodecimus... 13) Lib. decimus tertius... [Universitäts-Bibl., Jena].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 35. Stuttgart, 2003. Oblong, 21 x 16 cm, 4 partbooks, c.1700 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1534 edition. Fantastic motet & magnificat collection for 3 to 8 voices by a wonderful cross section of European masters including Gombert, Verdelot, Richafort, Mouton, De la Fage, Josquin, Certon, Manchicourt, etc. Over 260 works in choirbook format. Hardbound in decorative paper with matching slipcase. $379 [item no.8332]


ATTEY, John, b.?-c.1640

[Ayres, a4, voices/voice + lute, book 1] The First Book of Ayres 1622. Edited by David Greer. [British Library, K.7.f.10].

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 2. London, 2/ 1980. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 31 pp. Halftone. 14 songs in four parts which may be sung as solos with lute accompaniment (in Italian tablature) or as partsongs by four voices. Wrappers. $37 [item no.2988]


AVENARIUS, Philipp, c.1553-c.1610

Cantiones sacrae quinque vocum, accommodatae ad omnes usus, tam viva voce, quam omnis generis instrumentis cantatu iucundae, iam recens in lucem editae. [Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich].

Waiblingen, [1994]. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 5 partbooks, c.328 pp. Line-cut of the Neuber edition, Nuremberg, 1572. 30 pieces a5 with latin texts, written in mensural notation, for voices or instruments. Hardbound, with matching slipcase. $109 [item no.7118]


BABST, Valentin, fl.1540-1555 [publisher]

Das Babstsches Gesangbuch von 1545. Faksimiledruck mit einem Geleitwort herausgegeben von Konrad Ameln.

Documenta Musicologica, I/38. Kassel, 3/ 1988. 11 x 16 cm, 560 facs, with 27 woodcuts, xvi pp. Coverboards in laid paper. $99 [item no.1295]


BALLARD, Pierre, c.1575-1639 [publisher]

[Airs, lute, voice, books 1-6] Airs de différents autheurs mis en tablature de luth.

Geneva, 1981. 8º, 6 vols, each with c.160 pp. Line-cut of the Ballard edition, Paris, 1608-1615. Monodies (in staff notation) with lute accompaniment (in French tablature) by Boesset, Guédron or Bataille himself. May be the earliest appearance of notes tied together by the stems, indicating that they were to be sung to one syllable. Wrappers (only volumes III, IV, & V—1611, 1613, 1614—are currently available; price is per volume). $30 (more info... ) [item no.959]


[Airs, lute, voice, books 7-15] Airs de différents autheurs mis en tablature de luth. 7e à 15e livre.

Geneva, 1985. 15 x 22 cm, 5 vols, 672 pp Line-cut of the Ballard edition, Paris, 1617-1632. Monodies (staff notation) with lute accompaniment (in French tablature) by Antoine Boesset & others. Sequel to the airs intabulated for lute by Gabriel Bataille. Wrappers. (only vols. 7, 8, 14-15 [=1617, 1618, 1628-1632]—are currently available; price is per volume) $30 (more info... ) [item no.954]


[Airs de cour, book 7, 1626 ed.] VII. livre d’airs de cour, et de differents auteurs. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 10. Stuttgart, 1996. 11 x 15 cm, 116 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1626 edition. 40 airs de cour, 10 airs à boirs, and 7 airs espagnols. Composers include Roy, La Reyne, Moulinié, Boesset, Richar, Boccan, Boyer, Barberon, Bataille, Fevre, and others. Staff notation (voice part only). Beautiful marbled paper boards. $26 [item no.7345]


BANCHIERI, Adriano, 1568-1634

Canzonette a tre voci. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 7. Stuttgart, 1996. 15 x 19 cm, 3 partbooks, 72 pp. Line-cut of the Amadino edition, Venice, 1597. 21 settings. Wrappers, with handsome slipcase in marbled paper. $63 [item no.7340]


Fantaisie overo Canzoni alla francese. Venedig, Ricciardo Amadino 1603.

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 65. Stuttgart, 2014. 17 x 23 cm, 4 partbooks, 96 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1603 edition. 21 instrumental canzoni suitable for strings/winds. Wrappers, with portfolio in decorative paper. $42 [item no.9356]


Terzo libro di nuovi pensieri ecclesiastici da cantarsi con una, e due voci in variati modi nel clavicembalo tiorba, arpichitarrone.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/40. Bologna, 1969. 17 x 25 cm, vi, 71 pp. Line-cut of the Bologna, 1613 edition. Preface in It by Giuseppe Vecchi. Hardbound. [item no.2436]


[La pazzia senile, book 1] La pazzia senile. Riproduzione dell`originale con prefazione e trascrizione in notazione moderna di R. Bez.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/96. Bologna, 2003. 8º, 3 partbooks, 140 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1598 edition, together with new transcription by Renzo Bez. “Madrigal comedy” consisting of 19 madrigals or canzonetti a3 in mensural notation. Portfolio. (more info... ) [item no.8347]


[La pazzia senile, book 2] La pazzia senile [ragionamenti vaghi, et dillettevoli, a tre voci. Libro secondo]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 12. Stuttgart, 1997. 16 x 20 cm, 3 partbooks, c.90 pp. Line-cut of the second edition, Venice, 1599, containing significant variants, additions & cuts. Hardbound, with slipcase. $53 [item no.7379]


Il zabaione musicale [inventioine boscareccia et primo libro di madrigali a cinque voci]. [Staats- & Stadtbibliothek, Augsburg].

Faksimile-Edition Augsburg, 1. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 20 cm, 3 partbooks, c.128 pp. Line-cut of the Simon Tini & Filippo Lomazzo edition, Milan, 1604. 17 settings a5, for voices with or without instruments, based on the pastoral stories of Greek mythology. Wrappers, with handsome portfolio in marbled paper. $76 [item no.7494]


BARTLET, John, 16-17th c.

A Book of Ayres 1606. Edited by David Greer. [British Library, K.7.f.10].

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 3. London, 2/ 1980. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 48 pp. Halftone. 14 songs, in staff notation with lute accompaniment in French tablature, of which the most notable are “Go wailing verse”, and “I heard of late that love was fallen asleep”. Wrappers. $42 [item no.2989]


BATAILLE, Gabriel, c.1574-1630

[Airs, lute, voice, books 1-6] Airs de différents autheurs mis en tablature de luth.

Geneva, 1981. 8º, 6 vols, each with c.150 pp. Line-cut of the Ballard edition, Paris, 1608-1615. Monodies (in staff notation) with lute accompaniment (in French tablature) by Boesset, Guédron or Bataille himself. May be the earliest appearance of notes tied together by the stems, indicating that they were to be sung to one syllable. Wrappers (only volumes III, IV, & V [=1611, 1613, 1614] are currently available; price is per volume). $30 (more info... ) [item no.959]


BATHE, William, 1564-1614

A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song, c.1587.

London, 2008. 13 x 19 cm, 49 pp. Line-cut of the c.1587 revised edition of the now lost 1584 work considered to be the first musical text book to appear in the English language. Bathe abandons the Gamut in favor of his own seven-note sol-fa system. Wrappers. $29 [item no.9217]


BERG, ADAM, b.?-1610 [publisher]

Gesang und Psalmenbuch. Auff die fürnembste Fest durch gantze Jahr inn der Kirchen auch bei Processionen Greutzgäng Kirch und Walfahrten nützlich zu gebrauchen. [Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Ulm, 24. Stuttgart, 1999. Oblong, 10 x 8 cm, 496 pp. Line-cut of the Munich, 1607 edition. Berg became a Catholic in 1569 after being jailed for his religious beliefs, and rose to be the leading Bavarian printer of the Counter-Reformation. Hardbound, with cloth spine and vellum paper boards. $59 [item no.7727]


BERG (= MONTANUS), Johann, b.?-1563 [publisher]

Bergkreyen, auff zwo Stimmen componirt, sambt etlichen dergleichen franckreichischen Gesenglein, mit Fleisz auszerlesen, und jetzund newlich zu freundlichem Gefallen, allen der edlen Musickliebhabern in Druck geordnet. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 11. Stuttgart, 1996. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 2 partbooks, 86 pp. Line-cut of the Berg & Neuber edition, Nuremberg, 1551. Vocal (or instrumental) duets by A. Erich, V. Fortius, J. Heller, R. Rephun, A. Schwartz, T. Stoltzer, and others. Wrappers, with slipcase in beautiful marbled paper. $91 [item no.7338]


Diphona amoena et florida, selectore Erasmo Rotenbuchero, boiaro. Nürnberg/ J. Montanus & U. Neuber. [Ratsschulebibliothek, Zwickau].

Faksimile-Edition Zwickau, 8. Stuttgart, 2011. Oblong, 22 x 17 cm, 2 partbooks, 248 pp. Line-cut of the Berg & Neuber edition, Nuremberg, 1549. Wonderful anthology of 99 duos (diphonorum) for soprano & tenor pairings in mensural notation. Composers include Agricola, Fevin, Josquin, Isaac, Ockeghem, Lampadius. Hardbound in decorative paper, matching slipcase. $87 [item no.9262]


Psalmorum selectorum... Tomus primus. [Bayerische Staatsbibl., Munich].

Faksimile-Editionen Psalmen und Motetten, 1. Stuttgart, 2002. Oblong, 17 x 13 cm, 4 partbooks, c.512 pp. Line-cut of the Berg & Neuber edition, Nuremberg, 1553. Collection of vocal (or instrumental) psalm settings a4 by Josquin, Gombert, Clemens no Papa, and their contemporaries. Hardbound with decorative paper and matching slipcase. $142 [item no.8134]


Thesauri musici tomus [quintus, et utimus, continens sacras harmonias quatuor vocibus compositas]. Nürnberg, Berg und Neuber. RISM 1564(5). [Bayerische Staatsbibl., Munich].

Faksimile-Editionen Psalmen und Motetten, 3. Stuttgart, 2006. Oblong, 19 x 15 cm, 4 partbooks, c.416 pp. Line-cut of the Berg & Neuber edition, Nuremberg, 1564. Collection of 41 vocal (or instrumental) psalm settings a4 by Clemens non Papa (10), Crequillon (2), Galli (2), Lasso (4), Riuulo (2), Vaet (4), and their contemporaries. Hardbound with decorative paper and matching slipcase. $130 [item no.8667]


BEUTTNER, Nicolaus, 16-17th c.

Catholisch Gesang-Buch. Darinnen vil schöner, newe, un zuvor noch nie im Druck gesehen, christliche, andächtige Gesänger, die man nit allein bey dem Ambt der H. Meß, in Processionibus, Cruetz, un Walfarten, sonder auch zu Hauß sehr nützlichen gebrauchen mag.

Graz, 1968. 8º, 212, 108 pp. Line-cut of the Graz, 1602 edition. 141 songs and 86 chants. Hymnological introduction and comparative study of 6 later editions issued between 1609-1717 by Walter Lipphardt. Handsome binding in decorative paper. $59 [item no.1296]


BOSSINENSIS, Franciscus, 15-16th c.

Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto. Libro primo.

Geneva, 1977. Oblong, 22 x 15 cm, 112 pp. Line-cut of the Petrucci, 1509 edition. Italian lute tablature and mensural notation. One of the earliest sources of Italian lute music. Nos. 1-70 for solo voice (in mensural notation) and lute; nos. 71-96 for solo lute. Wrappers. $45 [item no.968]


BOTTEGARI, Cosimo, 1554-1620

Il libro di canto e liuto. The Song and Lute Book. A cura di Dinko Fabris e John Griffiths. Facsimile Edition by Dinko Fabris and John Griffiths. [Ms. C 311, Bibl. Estense, Modena].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/98. Bologna, 2006. 4°, 64, 122 pp. Facsimile of one of the most important mss relating to the history of the lute and an early source of Florentine monody from the last quarter of the 16th c. Besides works for solo lute it contains 127 pieces for voice with lute accompaniment in both mensural notation and Italian tablature. Composers include Bottegari, Lasso, Rore, Striggio, Palestrina, Dentice, Vecchi, Primavera, Conversi, Nola, Malvezzi & Tromboncino. Wrappers. [item no.8702]


BRUMEL, Antoine, c.1460-c.1515

Missae. Petrucci, Venedig 1503. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 47. Stuttgart, 2004. Oblong, 23 x 17 cm, 4 partbooks, 132 pp. Line-cut of the Petrucci edition, Venice, 1503. Five Antoine Brumel masses a4: “Je nay dueul”; “Berzerette savoyenne”; “Ut re mi fa sol la”; “Lomme arme”; “Victime paschali”. Hardbound, in decorative paper with slipcase. $74 [item no.8498]


BURTIUS, Nicolaus, c.1450-d.?

Musices opusculum.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/4. Bologna, 1969. 15 x 22 cm, vii, 133 pp. Line-cut of the Bologna, 1487 incunabulum, printed by Ugo de Rugeriis. Contains the earliest example of polyphonic music, complete with staves, printed by woodblock. Defends the system of hexachords as used by Guido d’Arezzo. Preface in It. Hardbound. [item no.2441]


Opusculum musicum. Ugo Rugeri / Bologna 1487 [private collection].

Faksimile-Edition Theoretica, 8 Stuttgart, 2021 Oblong, 16 x 22 cm, 133 pp. Full color facsimile of the Bologna, 1487 incunabulum, printed by Ugo de Rugeriis. Contains the earliest example of polyphonic music, complete with staves, printed by woodblock. Defends the system of hexachords as used by Guido d’Arezzo. Preface in It. Hardbound in decorative paper. $52 (more info... ) [item no.9643]


BUUS, Jacques, b.?-1565

[Canzoni francese] Il primo libro di canzoni francese. Venedig 1543 / Il secondo libro di ricercari. Venedig, Antonio Gardane 154 [Stadtbibliothek Lübeck & Bischöfliche Bibliothek, Regensburg].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, [73]. Stuttgart, 2016. Oblong, 21 x 16, 6 partbooks, 316 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1543 & 1549 partbook editions comprised of 30 settings with French texts, and 8 textless ricercari suitable for string & wind ensembles. Decorative paper boards with matching slipcase. $148 [item no.9525]


BYRD, William, 1543-1623

[Graduals & sacred songs, 3, 4, & 5 voices, book 1] Gradualia, ac cantiones sacrae, quinis, quaternis, trinisque vocibus concinnatae. Lib. Primus. . . Editio secunda, priore emendatior. [British Library, London].

Huntingdon, c.1988. 4º, 5 partbooks, c.300 pp. Line-cut of the second revised edition, London, 1610. Graduals and sacred songs, 32 settings a5, 20 a4, and 11 a3. Superius, medius, contratenor, tenor, & bassus partbooks. Wrappers. $78 [item no.7042]


[Graduals & sacred songs, 4, 5, & 6 voices, book 2] Gradualia, seu cantionum sacrarum: quarum aliae ad quatuor, aliae vero ad quinque & sex voces edit. sunt. Lib. secundus. [British Library, London].

Huntingdon, c.1988. 4º, 6 partbooks, c.300 pp. Line-cut of the Londoin, 1610 edition. Graduals and sacred songs, 19 settings a4, 18 a5, & 9 a6. Cantus primus, cantus secondus, contratenor, tenor, sextus, & bassus partbooks. Wrappers. $78 [item no.7043]


Masses for 3, 4 and 5 Voices. Christ Church, Oxford, Mus. 489-493. Edited by John Milsom. With an Introduction by Kerry McCarthy.

Oxford, 2012 16 x 21.6 cm, 5 partbooks, 112 pp. Full color facsimile of MS Christ Church, Oxford, Mus. 489-193. Wrappers, with slipcase. $35 (more info... ) [item no.9282]


Songs of Sundry Natures, Some of Gravitie, and Others of Myrth, Fit for All Companies and Voyces. Lately Made and Composed into Musicke of 3.4.5. and 6. Parts. [British Library, London].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 163. New York, [2000]. 18 x 25 cm, 5 partbooks, c.292 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1589 edition. 14 compositions a3, 11 a4, 12 a5, and 10 a6, suitable for voices and or instruments. Wrappers. $75 [item no.7840]


CALVIN, John, 1509-1564

Aulcuns pseaulmes et cantiques mys en chant à Strasburg 1539. Réimpression phototypographique précédée d’un avant-propos par D. Delétra.

Geneva, 1919. 12 x 16 cm, xiv, 63 pp. Line-cut. One of several important publications by Köpphel reflecting the growth of Calvinism in Strasbourg during the 16th c. With 14 psalms by Clément Marot. Introduction in Fr. Limited edition of 500 copies on laid paper. Wrappers. Rare. $45 [item no.1961]


CAMPION, Thomas, 1567-1620

[Ayres, books 1 & 2] Two Books of Ayres. The First Contayning Divine and Morall Songs: The Second, Light Conceits of Lovers. To be Sung to the Lute and Viols, in Two, Three, and Foure Parts; or by One Voyce to an Instrument. [British Library, London].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 106. New York, [1995]. 24 x 37 cm, 54 pp. Line-cut of the London, [1613] edition. Table book format with staff notation (vocal part) and French tablature. Wrappers. $20 [item no.7134]


[Ayres, books 3 & 4] The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres: So as They may be Expressed by One Voyce, with a Violl, Lute, or Orpharion. [British Library, London].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 107. New York, [1995]. 24 x 37 cm, 44 pp. Line-cut of the London, [1618] edition, in staff notation (vocal part) and French tablature. Wrappers. $20 [item no.7135]


[Maske, for Lord Hayes] The Discription of a Maske Presented before the Kinges Maiestie at White-Hall, on Twelfh Night Last, in Honour of the Lord Hayes, and His Bride. [private collection].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 259. New York, [2007]. 17 x 23 cm, 40 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1607 edition, in staff notation (vocal part) and French tablature. 22 pages of texts, followed by 11 pages of music numbered I, II, III, IV, V, some notated in table book format. Wrappers. $15 [item no.8833]


CANACCI, Antonio, 16th c.

Il primo libro delli madrigali [a cinque voci] Rom / Valerio Dorico, 1564. [Library of Congress, Washington DC].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 100. Stuttgart, 2022. Oblong, 8º, 5 partbooks, 160 pp. Line-cut of the Dorico edition, Rome, 1564 (= RISM A/I C 763) based on the sole surviving source. 33 madrigal settings in partbook format (Canto, Alto, Tenore, Basso, Quinto). Parts hand stitched, in portfolio covered with decorative paper and tie strings. $41 (more info... ) [item no.9695]


CANTONE, Serafino, fl.1580-1627

Sacrae cantiones, [sive motecta, tum ad instrumenta omnia, tum ad vocis modulationem aptissima]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 22. Stuttgart, 1997. 16 x 23 cm, 5 partbooks, c.120 pp. Line-cut Gardano edition, Venice, 1596. 20 sacred settings a5, for voices with or without instruments. Wrappers, with slipcase. $79 [item no.7438]


CASTALDI, Bellerofonte, 1581-d.?

Primo mazzetto di fiori musicalmente colti dal Giardino Bellerofonteo. Venezia 1623.

Archivum Musicum: La Cantata Barocca, 18. Florence, 1984. 23 x 32 cm, v, 67 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1623 edition. 26 settings for one to four voices. Contents: Con questi amorosi; Hor che le notte; Non pensar Clori; Hor che mi val soffrir; Dunque Clorida mia; Colei che tanto tormentami; Porterà’l sol dal occidente; Vezzosette e care; Augelletti lasciuetti; Saetta pur faetta; O sonno; Amor possente; Fuor di noia di pene; Hor meno lieti; Vissi al hor noiosa vita; Quell’altera; Lo sdegno c’hora scorgemi; O Clorida, hor che; O crudel amor; Amor colei; Tua chioma ora; O come e vaga; Quella che tanto; O Clorida vaga et gentile; Tutte le viste homai; Misero giovinetto. Introduction in It by Piero Mioli. Wrappers in decorative paper. $39 [item no.2154]


CASTRO, Jean de, c.1540-c.1600

Chansons, sonets, stanses et epigrammes a deux parties. Livre second. [Bibl. Royal, Brussels].

Facsimile Series, I/B.6. Peer, 1984. Oblong, 21 x 16 cm, 2 partbooks, c.60 pp. Line-cut of the Phalèse edition, Antwerp, 1610. Adds to “Sonets, chansons a deux parties” published in the same year. Introduction in Flem-Eng by Liesbet Vereertbrugghen. Wrappers, with slipcover. $1 [item no.1355]


Sonets, chansons a deux parties. Livre premier. [Bibl. Royale, Brussels].

Facsimile Series, I/B.10. Peer, 1986. Oblong, 21 x 17 cm, x, 2 partbooks, c.60 pp. Line-cut of the Phalèse edition, Antwerp, 1610. Duets to be sung or played (or both) on instruments. Introduction in Flem-Eng by Liesbet Vereertbrugghen. Wrappers, in slipcover. $28 [item no.1354]


CAVAGLIERI, Geronimo, fl.1600-1610 [compiler]

[Nova metamorfosi, book 2] Della novi metamorfosi de diversi autori. Libro secondo à cinque voci. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 9. Stuttgart, 1996. 17 x 24 cm, 80 pp. Line-cut of the Agostino Tradate edition, Milan, 1605. 21 sacred setting a5, notated in score. Compositions by Micheli, Malvezzi, Palestrina, Gabucci, Nenna, Marenzio, Molinaro, Arnone, Nanino, Rivolta, Scaletta, Rognone, Monte, and Artemanio. Beautiful marbled paper boards. $34 [item no.7344]


CAVENDISH, Michael, c.1565-1628

14 Ayres in Tabletorie to the Lute 1598. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 8. London, 2/ 1980. 27 x 37 cm, iii, 46 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1598 edition, in table book format. French tablature with vocal part in staff notation. Wrappers. $42 [item no.2994]


CERONE, Pietro, c.1560-1625

Le regole più necessarie per l’introduttione del canto fermo. A cura di Bonifacio Baroffio.

Musurgiana: Sources and Materials for the History and Theory of Music, 4. Lucca, 1989. 14 x 23 cm, xxii, 39 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1609 edition. Introduction, bibliography and index. Cloth. $21 [item no.3624]


CERRETO, Scipione, c.1551-c.1633

Dell’arbore musicale. Facsimile dell’esemplare appartenuto a Padre Martini. A cura di Francesco Luisi.

Musurgiana: Sources and Materials for the History and Theory of Music, 12. Lucca, 1989. 18 x 28 cm, xv, 47 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1608 edition. Introduction, bibliography and index. Cloth. $24 [item no.3628]


CHARDAVOINE, Jean, 1538-c.1580

Le recueil des plus belles et excellentes chansons en forme de voix de ville.

Geneva, 1980. Oblong, 17 x 15 cm, 292 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1576 edition. 186 chansons based on texts by Marot, Ronsard, du Bellay, and others, plus dance tunes. Wrappers. $62 [item no.1292]


CHRISOPONUS, Gevicenus Andreas [publisher], 16th c.

Bicinia nova. Prag, Typis nigricianis 1579. RISM 1579(7). [Ratsschulebibliothek, Zwickau].

Faksimile-Edition Zwickau, 4. Stuttgart, 2006. Oblong, 20 x 14 cm, 2 partbooks, 380 pp. Line-cut of the Prague, 1579 edition. 102 compositions for two voices with Latin/Czech texts. Suitable for different voice ranges, with or without instrumental accompaniment. Hardbound in decorative paper, matching slipcase. $86 [item no.8775]


CIMA, Giovanni Paolo, c.1570-c.1622

Concerti ecclesiastici à 1.2.3.4.5. & 8. voci, messa, e doi magnificat, & falsi bordoni à 4. & sei sonate, per instrumenti à due, tre, e quatro.

Archivum Musicum: La Cantata Barocca, 24. Florence, 1986. 5 partbooks, 17 x 24 cm, x, 392 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1610 edition. Issued in full score, together with the partbooks (canto, alto, tenore, & basso). Contains 6 settings a1, 18 a2, 10 a3, 15 a4, and 2 a5. Introduction in It by Piero Mioli. Wrappers in decorative paper with slipcover. $70 [item no.1813]


CLEMENS NON PAPA, Jacobus, c.1500-c.1556

Souterliedekens, IIII. Het sevenste musyck boexken mit dry partien, waer inne begrepen syn XXIX psalmen van David (met meer ander geestelycke lofsangen wt der beiligher Schrift) . . . seer lustich om singen ter eeren Gods. Introduction: Ignace Bossuyt. [Bibl. Jagiellońska, Krakow].

Facsimile Series, I/B.19. Peer, 1987. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, xiv, 3 partbooks, 134 pp. Line-cut of the fourth and last volume of the Souterliedekens, based on the recently discovered partbooks (superius, tenor, bassus) found in the Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Kracow. 29 psalm settings. Introduction in Eng. Wrappers, in slipcase. $43 [item no.1586]


COCK, Simon, fl.1540-1560 [publisher]

Souter Liedekens ghemaect ter eeren Gods, op alle dye Psalmen van David: tot stichtinghe, en gheestelijcke Vermakinghe van alle Christe Mensche. Fascimile-Edition, with Introduction and Notes by Jan van Biezen and Marie Veldhuyzen.

Facsimiles of Rare Dutch Songbooks, 2. Buren, 1984. 12 x 18 cm, 48, 171 c.371 pp. Line-cut of the first edition, Antwerp 1540. This popular collection of rhymed settings of all 150 psalms (reprinted no less 30 times) was allegedly written by Willem van Zuylen van Nyevelt. The melodies were not newly composed but taken from popular and folk tunes. This is the first book with typeset music to be printed in the Netherlands and the oldest Dutch psalter with music. Introduction and bibliography in Eng-Dut by Jan van Biezen and Marie Veldhuyzen. Cloth. $104 [item no.1375]


COPERARIO, John, c.1575-1626

Funeral Tears 1606. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 9. London, 2/ 1978. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 20 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1606 edition, in table book format. For 2 voices, lute and bass viol. In French tablature with vocal part(s) and bass part in staff notation. Wrappers. $32 [item no.2995]


Songs of Mourning 1613. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 10. London, 1978. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 20 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1613 edition, in French tablature with vocal part in staff notation. Wrappers. $31 [item no.2996]


CORKINE, William, 16-17th c.

Ayres to Sing and Play to the Lute. 1610. Edited by David Greer. [British Library, London].

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 11. London, 2/ 1978. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 25 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1610 edition. 12 songs for voice, lute (French tablature) and bass viol, in table book format, plus 6 lessons for the lyra viol, notated in tablature. Wrappers. $33 [item no.2997]


The Second Booke of Ayres 1612. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 12. London, 2/ 1977. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 36 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1612 edition, in regular and table book format. Songs (staff notation) with lute accompaniment in French tablature. 1 duet for lyra-viol as well as a number of solos for lyra-viol, equally appropriate for lute. Wrappers. $37 [item no.2998]


COURBES, Charles, c.1580-d.?

Cantiques spirituels. Édition critique Marc Desmet.

Lyon, 2005. 15 x 21 cm, 359 pp. Line-cut of the Ballard edition, Paris 1622 (printed in choirbook format), together with critical edition. “Cantiques spirituels novvellement mis en musique a IIII. V, VI, VII, et VIII parties” is Charles de Courbes’ only known collection of songs; it features 37 settings characterized by a lot of poetic ingenuity, bilingual texts (Latin/French); one piece is for double choir. Wrappers. $55 (more info... ) [item no.9252]


DAMMONIS, Innocentius, 15-16th c.

Laude libro primo, Venezia 1508. Ristampa Anastatica, presentazione di Giulio Cattin e introduzione di Francesco Luisi.

Serie VII, A: Ottaviano Petrucci, 1. Venice, 2001. Oblong, 28 x 17 cm, 83, 130 pp. Halftone reproduction of the Venice, 1508 edition, from the copy preserved at the Biblioteca Capitolare Colombina, Seville. The only anthology of lauda (66) published by Petrucci devoted to a single composer—Innocentius Dammonis, a prior of San Salvador in Venice. This is the "second" edition (the 1506 “first” edition survives incomplete). Introduction in It-Sp-Eng. Hardbound. $100 (more info... ) [item no.8463]


DANYEL, John, 1564-c.1625

Songs for the Lute 1606. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 13. London, 2/ 1977. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 44 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1606 edition, in table book format. For up to 4 voices (in staff notation) with lute accompaniment in French tablature. The bass part is probably played by the bass viol. Wrappers. $41 [item no.2999]


DEGEN, Johann, b.?-1637

Das Liederbuch des Johann Degen aus dem Jahre 1628 im Faksimile; [mit] Übertragung der vierstimmigen Notensätze aus dem Liederbuch des Johann Degen von 1628 [herausgeben von] Wolfgang Spindler. [Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg, R.B. Th. lit. o. 27].

Bamberg, 1992. 16º & 4º, 620, 5 vols, 254 pp. Line-cut of the Bamberg, 1628 edition. Interesting Catholic songbook, comprised “auß unterschiedlichen von der Römischen Catholischen Kirchen approbierten Gesangbüchern”, documenting the music-liturgical practice of Ostfranken. Includes 93 homophonic settings a4, neatly notated in choirbook format. Complete transcription of all the 4-voice settings arranged by liturgical year. Introduction in Ger. Index. Facsimile, hardbound; transcription/introduction in wrappers. $95 [item no.7115]


DENTICE, Scipione, 16-17th c.

Il quarto libro de madrigali à cinque voci. [Biblioteca del Conservatorio, Naples].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 39. Stuttgart, 2002. 16 x 23 cm, 5 partbooks, c.120 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1602 edition. A rare print containing 19 madrigals for five voices. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $54 [item no.8133]


DIETZ, Ludwig, b.?-1559. [publisher]

Ludwig Dietz’ Salmebog 1536. Udgivet af Universitets-Jubilæets danske Samfund ved NielsKnud Andersen.

Copenhagen, 1972. 12º, 220, 117 pp. Line-cut of the Rostock, 1536 edition. Afterword in Danish. Handsome binding in vellum paper with reproduction of 1536 title page. Rare. $85 [item no.9078]


DOWLAND, John, 1562-1626

A Pilgrimmes Solace. Wherein is Contained Musicall Harmonie of 3.4. and 5. Parts, to be Sung and Plaid with the Lute and Viols.

Performers’ Facsimiles, 195. New York, [1996]. 24 x 35 cm, 47 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1612 edition. Table-book format. Up to 4 voices (in staff notation) with lute accompaniment in French tablature. Contains “Lacrimae”, version for solo lute. Wrappers. $20 (more info... ) [item no.7325]


[Songs, voices/viols, lute, book 1, 1613 ed.] The First Booke of Songs 1613. Edited by Diana Poulton. [British Library, London].

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 15. London, 3/ 1985. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 48 pp. Line-cut of the Humfrey Lownes edition (London, 1613), in table book format. Believed to represent Dowland’s own revisions. 21 songs a4 with lute/orpharion/viol accompaniment, plus 1 galliard for two lutes. French tablature. Wrappers. Ex-library copy. $35 [item no.3002]


[Songs, voices/viols, lute, book 1, 1613 ed.] The First Booke of Songs or Ayres of Foure Parts, with Tableture for the Lute. [British Library, London].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 127. New York, [1994]. 24 x 35 cm, 47 pp. Line-cut of the Humfrey Lownes edition (London, 1613), in table book format. Believed to represent Dowland’s own revisions. 21 songs a4 with lute/orpharion/viol accompaniment, plus 1 galliard for two lutes. French tablature. Wrappers. $20 (more info... ) [item no.4765]


[Songs, voices/viols, lute, book 2] The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres 1600. Edited by Diana Poulton. [Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.].

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 16. London, 3/ 1985. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 50 pp. Line-cut of the Thomas Este edition (London, 1600), in table book format. 22 songs a2, a4 & a5 with lute/orpharion/viol accompaniment. French tablature. Wrappers. $36 [item no.3003]


[Songs, voices/viols, lute, book 2] The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres of Foure Parts, with Tableture for the Lute. [Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 128. New York, [1994]. 24 x 35 cm, 49 pp. Line-cut of the Thomas Este edition (London, 1600), in table book format. 22 songs a2, a4 & a5 with lute/orpharion/viol accompaniment. French tablature. Wrappers. $20 (more info... ) [item no.4766]


[Songs, voices/viols, lute, books 3 & 4] The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Ayres 1603. Edited by Diana Poulton. [Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.].

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 17. London, 2/ 1985. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 47 pp. Line-cut of the Thomas Adams edition, London, 1603, in table book format. 21 songs a4 & 5, with lute/orpharion/viol accompaniment. French tablature. Wrappers. $34 [item no.3004]


[Songs, voices/viols, lute, books 3 & 4] The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires. [Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 129. New York, [1994]. 24 x 35 cm, 47 pp. Line-cut of the Thomas Adams edition, London, 1603, in table book format. 21 songs a4 & 5, with lute/orpharion/viol accompaniment. French tablature. Wrappers. $20 (more info... ) [item no.4767]


DOWLAND, Robert, c.1586-1641

A Musical Banquet. Furnished with Varietie of Delicious Ayres, Collected Out of the Best Authors in English, French, Spanish and Italian. [Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 59. New York, [1990]. 24 x 37 cm, 45 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1610 edition, in table book format. Pieces for 2-4 voices with lute accompaniment in French tablature. 1 galliard for solo lute by John Dowland. Wrappers. $25 (more info... ) [item no.3958]


DRESSLER, Gallus, 1533-c.1580

Opus selectissimum sacrarum cantionum [quinque et pluribus vocibus in gratiam musicorum compositarum]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 21. Stuttgart, 1997. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 5 partbooks, c.690 pp. Line-cut of the Gerlach edition, Nuremberg, 1574. 37 sacred settings a4, 38 a5, 2 a6 and 1 a8, for voices with or without instruments. Hardbound in vellum paper, with matching slipcase. $184 [item no.7513]


Zehen deudscher Psalmen / [Lasso:] Newe teütsche Liedlein. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 5. Stuttgart, 1995. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 5 partbooks, 255 pp. Line-cut of the Adam Berg edition, Munich, 1567. 10 psalm settings a4 and 5 by Dressler and 19 settings on German sacred texts by Lasso. Hardbound with slipcase. $129 [item no.7210]


ECCARD, Johann, 1553-1611

[& Paul Emmelius] Zween schöne und trostreiche Sprüche [von dem heiligen Ehestand aus dem 31. Cap. Salomonis mit fünff Stimmen componiert]. Königsberg 1591. [Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Krakow].

Faksimile-Edition Krakau, 23. Stuttgart, 2012. Oblong, 20 x 16 cm, 5 partbooks, 20 pp. Line-cut of the Königsberg 1591 edition. A rare source with 2 settings a5 in mensural notation, respectively by Johann Eccard and Paulus Emmelius. Portfolio. $11 [item no.9272]


EGENOLF, Christian, 1502-1555 [publisher]

Gassenhawerlin und Reutterliedlin zu Franckenfurt am Meyn. Bei Christian Egenolf 1535.

Hildesheim, 1970. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm (partbooks each 10 x 7), 4 partbooks: xv, 474 pp. (Rpt. of Augsburg & Cologne, 1927 edition). Line-cut of the printed partbooks (altus, bassus, discantus & tenor). One of the leading collections of Lutheran contrafact songs (78 in all), predominantly secular in nature. Separate introduction booklet. Wrap. $54 [item no.1301]


Geminae undeviginti odarum horatii [melodiae, quatuor vocibus probè adornatæ...]. Frankfurt, C. Egenolph 1551. RISM 1551/17. [Musikbibliothek Leipzig].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 55. Stuttgart, 2008. 10 x 14 cm, 221 pp. Line-cut of the Frankfurt, 1551 edition. 53 polyphonic settings a4 on the odes of the Roman poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65 BC - 8 BC). Hardbound with decorative paper boards. $37 [item no.9059]


ELER, Franz, c.1500-1590

Cantica sacra partim ex sacris literis desumta. Mit einer Einleitung von Klaus Beckmann. [Stadtbibliothek, Lübeck].

Hildesheim 2002. 8˚, 10, 384 pp. Line-cut of the Hamburg, 1588 edition. Cloth. $150 [item no.8176]


ERICUS, Olaus, 16th c.

Olaus Ericis sångbok: En handskriven liber cantus i Gamla Uppsala kyrkoarkiv. Utgiven med inledning av Folke Bohlin.

Laurentius Petri Sällskapets Urkundserie, VIII. Uppsala, 1967. Oblong, 21 x 15 cm, 16, 96 pp. Halftone of a newly discovered manuscript of Protestant chorale tunes with Swedish texts dating from c.1580. Introduction and inventory. Wrappers. $18 [item no.1493]


FABER, Heinrich, b.?-1522

Cantiones aliquot sacrae trium vocum. [Schermar Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 43. Stuttgart, 1998. 15 x 19 cm, 3 partbooks, c.84 pp. Line-cut of the Abraham Wagenmann edition, Nuremberg, 1607. 10 sacred settings for 3 voices. Wrappers with portfolio in marbled paper. $66 [item no.7570]


Compendiolum musicae pro incipientibus. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/20. Bologna, 1980. 13 x 17 cm, 38 pp. Line-cut of the P. Kauffmann edition, Nuremberg, 1594. Cloth. [item no.2464]


FAIGNIENT, Noë, b.?-c.1595

Chansons, madrigales & motetz a quatre, cincq & six parties. Anvers, vefve de Iean Laet, 1568. Introduction: Eugeen Schreurs. [Bayerische Staatsbibl., Munich].

Facsimile Series: I/B.11. Peer, 1986. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 5 partbooks, c.209, xvi pp. Line-cut of the Antwerp, 1568 edition. 44 works, including chansons, madrigals and motets. 5 polyphonic songs with Dutch texts and a beautiful parting song, “Adieu Anvers, adieu la noble ville”. Introduction in Fle-Eng. Wrappers. $30 [item no.1360]


FAUGUES, Guillaume, 15th c.

Opera omnia Faugues. Facsimile of the Compositions of Faugues from the Manuscripts Trent 88–Trent 91, Cappella Sistina 14, Cappella Sistina 51, Verona DCCLXI, Modena alpha M.1.13, with an Introduction by George C. Schuetze, J.

Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts, 7. New York, 1959. Oblong, 25 x 17 cm, xii, 100 pp. Halftone of all the works of Faugues (from Italian sources), a contemporary of Ockeghem. Wrappers. $45 [item no.1434]


FERRABOSCO, Alfonso, c.1572-1628

Ayres 1609. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 20. London, 2/ 1978. 27 x 37 cm, iii, 38 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1609 edition, in French tablature. Wrappers. $39 [item no.3006]


FINCK, Heinrich, c.1444-1527

Schöne auszerlesene Lieder [des hoch berümpten Heinrich Finckens sampt andern newen Liedern von den fürnesten dieser Kunst gesetzt/lustig zu singen/und auff die Instrument dienstlich vor nie im Druck außgegangen]. Nürnberg/Formschneider 1536. RISM 1536(9). [Ratsschulebibliothek, Zwickau].

Faksimile-Edition Zwickau, 2. Stuttgart, 2006. Oblong, 14 x 10 cm, 4 partbooks, 456 pp. Line-cut of the Formschneider edition, Nuremberg, 1536. 55 lieder in SATB partbook format. Beautifully printed German songbook, an anthology devoted exclusively to Heinrich Finck. Hardbound in decorative paper. $124 [item no.8778]


FIORINO, Gasparo, 16th c.

La nobilità di Roma: versi in lode di cento gentildonne romane et le vilanelle à tre voci.

Monumenta Romana, Fototypice Expressa, 1. Bologna, 1970. 16 x 22 cm, 87 pp. Line-cut of the Scotto edition, Rome, 1571. 31 settings for 3 voices in staff notation with lute/theorbo accompaniment in Italian tablature. Laid paper. Hardbound. $40 [item no.2798]


FLÖTNER, Peter, c.1485-1546 [illustrator]

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 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 (more info... ) [item no.1298]


FORD, Thomas, c.1580-1648

Musicke of Sundrie Kindes 1607. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 21. London, 2/ 1978. 27 x 37 cm, iii, 48 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1607 edition, in table book format. Songs a2 and a4 with lute/orpharion/viol accompaniment. Duets for lutes/viols. French tablature. Wrappers. $39 [item no.3007]


Musicke of Sundrie Kindes Set Forth in Two Books. [British Library, London].

Performer’s Facsimiles, 219. New York, [1998]. 25 x 36 cm, 48 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1607 edition, in table book format. Songs a2 and a4 with lute/orpharion/viol accompaniment. Duets for lutes/viols. French tablature. Wrappers. $20 [item no.7634]


FORMSCHNEIDER, Hieronymus, b.?-1556 [publisher]

[Novum et insigne, part 1] Novum et insigne opus musicum. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 10. Stuttgart, 1996. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 6 partbooks. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1537 edition. Hardbound in marbled paper with matching slipcase. $191 [item no.7310]


[Novi operis musici, part 2] Secundus tomus novi operis musici. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 9. Stuttgart, 1996. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 5 partbooks, c.600 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1538 edition. Anthology of 43 pieces a4. Hardbound, with slipcase. $195 [item no.7283]


FORSTER, Georg, c.1514-1568 [compiler]

[Teutsche Liedlein, parts 1 & 2] Georg Forsters Lieder-Sammlung Bände 1 und 2. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 2. Stuttgart, 1996. Oblong, 18 x 12 cm, 4 partbooks, 470 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg editions (v. 1 is based on the 4th edition and v. 2 on the 3rd edition. Forster, a doctor and composer, put together an excellent anthology of the best secular pieces of the period, including such beloved works as Isaac’s “Innsbruck, ich muß dich lassen”. This is the 1st and 2nd parts of Forster’s enomous 5-part work. Hardbound in vellum paper, with matching slipcase. $184 [item no.7299]


[Teutsche Liedlein, part 1] Forsters frische Liedlein, eine Sammlung deutscher Lieder aus dem XVI. Jahrhundert. Fünfzig ausgewählte Lieder für eine Singstimme und Klavier bearbeitet von Felix Schwab.

Vienna, 1908. 19 x 28 cm, 112, with 52 pp. Line-cut. Score arrangements in modern notation, each preceded by a facsimile of the tenor part of the original. Foreword in Ger and index-table. Wrappers. $45 [item no.1836]


[Teutsche Liedlein, part 2] Des andern Theyls viler kurzweyliger frischer teutscher Liedlein zu singen sehr lüstig, mit etlichen newen Liedlein gemehret. [Bayerische Staatsbibl., Munich].

Frankfurt, [1991]. Oblong, 21 x 15 cm, 4 partbooks, 220 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1565 edition in the original format. 78 songs in mensural notation for four voices (sometimes five) by Forster and composers predominantly from the Heidelberg school. Part two of the immense five part collection. Coverboards in vellum paper with matching slipcase. $130 [item no.4159]


[Teutsche Liedlein, part 3] Der dritte Teyl schöner lieblicher teutscher Liedlein, nicht allein zu singen, sonder auch auff allerley Instrumenten zu brauchen, sehr dienstlich außerlesen, ubersehen und gebessert. [Staats- & Stadtbibliothek, Augsburg].

Faksimile-Edition Augsburg, 6. Stuttgart, 1998. Oblong, 14 x 11 cm, 4 partbooks, 406 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1552 editionn. 80 works in mensural notation for 4 voices, with or without instrumental accompaniment. Hardbound in decorative paper, with matching slipcase. $129 [item no.7659]


FRANCK, Melchior, c.1579-1639

Fasciculus quodlibeticus. New musicalisch Werklein, darinnen de quodlibet, so bißhero unterschiedlich außgangen, jetzo aber mit noch andern gantz newen vermehret, alle zusammen getruckt, unnd von vier fünff unnd sechs Stimmen componirt. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 8. Stuttgart, 1996. 15 x 19 cm, 4 partbooks, 120 pp. Line-cut of the Coburg, 1611 edition. Secular settings, four a4, one a6 and one a5, suitable for voices and instruments. Wrappers, with handsome slipcase in marbled paper. $76 [item no.7342]


Flores musicales. [Neue anmutige musicalische Blumen zu allerhand Luft und Fröligkeit lieblich zu gebrauchen mit sonderbarem Fleiß ausammen getragen und mit 4.5.6. und 8 Stimmen]. [Schermar Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 41. Stuttgart, 1998. 16 x 20 cm, 5 partbooks, c.120 pp. Line-cut of the Balthasar Scherff/David Kauffmann edition, Nuremberg, 1610. 10 settings a4, 8 a5, and 5 a8, for voices, with or without instruments. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $65 [item no.7578]


Tricinia nova lieblicher amorosischer Gesänge mit schönen boëtischen Texten gezieret und ettlicher massen nach Italienischer Art mit Fleiß componiert. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 42. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 19 cm, 3 partbooks, 86 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1611 edition. 18 secular settings for 3 voices suitable for voices and instruments. Wrappers, with handsome portfolio in marbled paper. $50 [item no.7551]


Viridarium musicum [continens amaenissiomos et fragrantissimo ex sacra scriptura decerptos flosculos, quos ad dei ter optimi maximi laudem, ecclesiae usum quotidianum, depellendamque animae tristissimae melancholiam internam, 5.6.7.8.9. & 10. vocibus, harmonia suavissima composuit, & illustravit, Ducalis Capellae Saxo Coburgicae Praefectus]. Nürnberg, Georg Fuhrmann 1613. [Zentralbibliothek Zürich].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 62. Stuttgart, 2012. 16 x 21 cm, 8 partbooks, 320 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1613 edition. 43 settings with sacred texts including 18 a5, 7 a6, 2 a7, 13 a8, 2 a9, and 3 a10. Wrappers, with slipcase in decorative paper. $104 [item no.9271]


FROSCH, Johann, 16th c.

Rerum musicarum opusculum.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/39. New York, 1967. Line-cut of the Peter Schoeffer (the Younger) & Matthias Apiarius edition, Strasbourg 1535. Printed with mensural music type resembling Petrucci’s. Contains 16 pages of musical examples in 4 or 6 parts on facing pages. Laid paper with handsome binding in cloth. [item no.2641]


FUENLLANA, Miguel de, c.1500-d.?

Libro de música para vihuela, intitulado Orphenica lyra.

Geneva, 1981. 18 x 24 cm, 369 pp. Line-cut of the M. de Montesdoca edition, Seville 1554. One of the richest and most varied Italian lute tablatures for vihuela including fantasias, transcriptions for voice and instrument, ensaladas and tientos. Cloth. (out of print - included only for bibliographic reference) [item no.1031]


FÜGER, Caspar, 1521-1592

Christliche Vers und Gesänge [lateinisch und deudsch / von dem groswichtigem / hochnötigem Werck der auffgerichten Concordien, in dieser Lande Kirchen und Schulen. Auff fünff Stimmen componiert]. Dreßden 1580. [Library of Congress, Washington DC].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 105. Stuttgart, 2023. 18 x 22 cm. 44 pp. Line-cut of the Dresden, 1580 edition. Hardbound with decorative paper boards. $26 [item no.9729]


GABRIELI, Andrea, c.1510-1586

Madrigali et ricercari.

Huntingdon, n.d. Line-cut of the Venice, 1589 SATB partbooks. Wrappers $35 [item no.8261]


GAFURIO, Franchino, 1451-1522

Liber capelle ecclesie maioris. Quarto codice di Gafurio a cura di Angelo Ciceri e Luciano Migliavacca. [Archivio della capella musical del Duomo, Milan, mus. ms. Mc2266].

Archivium Musices Metropolitanum Mediolanense, 16. Milan, 1968. 24 x 33 cm, xxiv, 287 pp. Halftone of Gaffurio’s fire-damaged autograph containing mass movements of the composer as well as those of his contemporaries. Wrappers. $30 [item no.1323]


GALLE, Philip, 16-17th c. [publisher]

Encomium musices.

Harrow Replicas, 6. Cambridge, 1943. Oblong, 29 x 20 cm, 36 (with 18 plates), iv pp. Line-cut of the edition issued in the 1590s in Antwerp. 18 elaborate engravings of musical scenes from the Holy Scriptures. Its titlepage shows an opening of a motet for six voices by Pevernage in the same style as the first “picture-motet” of 1584. Special Italian laid paper. Afterword by Otto Erich Deutsch. Linen. $85 [item no.2303]


GARDANO, Angelo, b.?-1610 [publisher]

[Canzoni & ricercari, keyboard, book 5] Canzoni alla francese et ricercari ariosi [tabulate per sonar sopra istromenti da tasti. Libro quinto]. [Augsburg, Staats- & Stadtsbibliothek].

Faksimile-Edition Augsburg, 4. Stuttgart, 1997. Line-cut of the Venice, 1605 edition. 12 works in keyboard notation including works by Lasso, Crequillon and Jannequin. Hardbound in marbled paper. $54 [item no.7530]


GARDANO, Antonio, 1509-1569 [publisher]

[Duos, winds/strings] Il primo libro a due voci de diversi autori. RISM 1543(19).

[Yellow Book Series, 5]. Højbjerg, 1991. Oblong, 23 x 16 cm, 2 partbooks: 80 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1543 edition. Consists of 67 textless duos derived for the most part from masses by a representative selection of composers. Wrappers. $44 [item no.4155]


Fantasie recercari contrapunti a tre voci di M. Adriano & de altri autori appropriati per cantare & sonare d’ogni sorte di stromenti. [Bayerische Staatsbibl., Munich].

Facsimile Series: I/B.8. Peer, 1986. Oblong, 21 x 16 cm, 18, 3 partbooks, c.94 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1559 edition. Includes 2 Regina celi by Willaert and Rore and instrumental trios in strict contrapuntal style. Introduction in Flem-Eng by Ignace Bossuyt. Wrappers. [item no.1264]


[Madrigals/Canzoni francese, Ihan Gero/Clement Janequin] Quaranta madrigali di Ihan Gero insiema trenta canzoni francese di Clement Ianequin. RISM(22). Venezia, A. Gardane 1543. [Trent, Biblioteca Comunale & Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Universitätsbibliothek].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 43. Stuttgart, [2015]. Oblong, 22 x 16 cm, 3 partbooks, 118 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1534 edition containing madrigals by Gero and Canzoni francese by Janequin. No complete source of this print survives but this facsimile, by combining the incomplete Cantus and Bassus partbooks from Trent and the incomplete Tenor partbook from Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, is able to provide the music for nos. 9-55 of the Cantus; nos. 41-55 of the Tenor and nos. 11-55 of the Bassus, or 15 complete settings. Some of the missing parts can be completed from concordances found in other collections. Hardbound, in decorative paper with matching slipcase. $74 [item no.9478]


Novi thesauri musici liber primus. Venedig. A. Gardane 1568. [Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schwerin].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 57. Stuttgart, 2008. 17 x 24 cm, 6 partbooks, c.968 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1568 edition, consisting of cantus, altus, tenor, quintus, sextus, & bassus partbooks. The first of five volumes published in 1568 containing a magnificent collection of 254 5 & 6-voice motets, financed and overseen by Pietro Giovanelli, a member of a wealthy family from the Bergamo region of Italy. Liber primus presents 87 beautifully engraved motets preceded by striking initials in woodblock. The compilation consists of music written by the composers stationed at the Hofkapellen of Graz, Innsbruck, Prague, as well as the Imperial Hofkapelle in Vienna. Besides well-known composers such as Regnart, Vaet, & Lasso the collection contains many outstanding composers who are still virtually unknown today and only known in this collection. Wrapperr, with slipcase covered in decorative paper. $275 [item no.8975]


GASTOLDI, Giovanni Giacomo, b.?-1622

Tricinia, welche zuvor mit italianischen Texten componiert. [Schermar Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 40. Stuttgart, 1998. 15 x 22 cm, 3 partbooks, c.150 pp. Line-cut of the Valentin Haußmann edition, Nuremberg, 1607. 47 works for 3 voices by Gastoldi, Affettuoso, Invaghito, and H. Vecchi. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $69 [item no.7568]


GIBBONS, Orlando, 1583-1625

[Madrigals & motets, a3] The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets of 5. Parts: Apt for Viols and Voyces.

Performers’ Facsimiles, 50. New York, 1989. 18 x 24 cm, 5 partbooks, 120 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1612 edition. Wrappers. $45 [item no.2788]


GIOVANELLI, Ruggiero, 1560-1625

[Villanelle & arie, a3, book 1] Il primo libro delle villanelle et arie alla napolitana a tre voci.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/69. Bologna, 1980. Oblong & upright, 21 x 15 cm, 3 partbooks, 80 pp. Line-cut of the 1600 & 1624 partbooks. 23 setting for 3 voices. Wrappers, in handsome folder in linen and paper. [item no.1328]


GÖRLITZ, Johann Friderich, 16-17th c.

Fugarum libellus [liebliche Fugen und geistlich Lieder allen kunstliebenden Musicus zu gefallen auff mancherley Art, mit drey, vier, fünff, und mehr Stimmen]. Frankfurt/Oder, F. Hartmann 1601. [Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 42. Stuttgart, 2003. 19 x 25cm, 32 pp. Line-cut of the Frankfurt an der Oder, 1601 edition. Wrappers. $15 [item no.8363]


GREAVES, Thomas, 16-17th c.

Songes of Sundrie Kindes 1604. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 22. London, 2/ 1978. 27 x 37 cm, iii, 42 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1604 edition, in table book format. 9 ayres for solo voice with lute and bass viol accompaniment; 6 songs of sadness for solo voice and viol consort; 6 madrigals for 5 voices, with or without instrumental accompaniment. French tablature. Wrappers. $39 [item no.3008]


GUGGUMOS, Gallus, 16th c.

Mottecta III. V. et VI vocum. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 3. Stuttgart, 1996. 17 x 22 cm, 7 partbooks, c.160 pp. Line-cut of the Magni edition, Venice, 1612. Four motets a4, seven a5, and seven a6. Mensural notation. Wrappers, with handsome slipcase in marbled paper. $122 [item no.7336]


GUMPELZHAIMER, Adam, 1559-1625

Compendium musicae. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 23. Stuttgart, 1997. 17 x 20 cm, 163 pp. Line-cut of the Valentin Schoenig edition, Augsburg, 1611. Extremely popular textbook on the rudiments of music which was issued in 13 editions over a period of 90 years. Written for the author’s students at St. Anna’s in Augsburg, it is largely based on Heinrich Faber’s Compendium musicae, but with parallel texts in Latin and German and a greatly expanded musical section. Hardbound. $51 [item no.7440]


Neue teutsche geistliche Lieder mit dreien Stimmen. [Schermar Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 39. Stuttgart, 1998. 16 x 20 cm, 3 partbooks, c.120 pp. Line-cut of the Valentin Schönigf edition, Augsburg, 1591. 27 secular settings a3 in the Italian style. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $52 [item no.7572]


Neue teutsche geistliche Lieder mit dreien Stimmen. [Schermar Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 39. Stuttgart, 1998. 16 x 20 cm, 3 partbooks, c.120 pp. Line-cut of the Valentin Schönigf edition, Augsburg, 1591. 27 secular settings a3 in the Italian style. Wrappers. $40 [item no.7573]


HANDFORD, George, 16-17th c.

Ayres to be Sunge to the Lute [ca. 1609]. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 23. London, 2/ 1980. 27 x 37 cm, iii, 50 pp. Line-cut of manuscript R.16.29 from Trinity College, Cambridge. Ayres for solo voice, lute and bass viol, in table book format. Staff notation and French tablature. Wrappers. $41 [item no.3009]


HASSLER, Hans Leo, 1562-1612

Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesäng. Balletii, Galliarden und Intraden mit 4.5.6. und 8. Stimmen. [Schermar Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 45. Stuttgart, 1998. 16 x 20 cm, 4 partbooks, c.230 pp. Line-cut of the Paul Kauffmann edition, Nuremberg, 1610. 15 settings a4, 13 a5, 8 a6, 3 a8 and 6 instrumental Intraden a6. Tenor, altus, quinta and sexta partbooks only. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $72 [item no.7608]


Venusgarten [oder Neue lustige liebliche Täntz teutscher und polnischer art auch Galliarden und Intraden mit 4.5.6. Stimmen mit und ohne Text]. [Schermar Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 46. Stuttgart, 1998. 15 x 21 cm, 3 partbooks, c.240 pp. Line-cut of the Paul Kauffmann edition, Nuremberg, 1615. 36 texted settings a5 and 11 a4 textless settings by J.L. Hassler and Valintin Haussmann. For voices, with or without instruments. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $58 [item no.7582]


HAUSSMANN, Valentin, c.1565-c.1614

[Dances, German & Polish] Außzug aus Valentini Haußmanns [Gerbipol. zweyen unterschiedlichen Wercken als der teutschen Täntz mit 4. Stimmen und des ersten Theils polnischer Täntz so Venusgarten tituliert mit 5. Stimmen mit und ohne Text in ein Opusculum zusammen gebracht durch V. Haußmann]. Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 26. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 19 cm, 5 partbooks, c.284 pp. Line-cut of the Balthasar Scherff edition, Nuremberg, 1609. 11 dances a4, 28 a5, plus 59 purely instrumental dances a4. Wrappers, with handsome portfolio in marbled paper. $115 [item no.7524]


Melodien unter weltliche Texte, da jeder einen besondern Namen anzeiget, umb ein guten Theil vermehret und von neuem auffgelegt. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 25. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 19 cm, 5 partbooks, c.260 pp. Line-cut of the Paul Kauffmann edition, Nuremberg, 1608. 51 works a5, with German texts. Wrappers, with handsome portfolio in marbled paper. $115 [item no.7485]


Venusgarten [oder Neue lustige liebliche Täntz teutscher und polnischer art auch Galliarden und Intraden mit 4.5.6. Stimmen mit und ohne Text]. [Schermar Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 46. Stuttgart, 1998. 15 x 21 cm, 3 partbooks, c.240 pp. Line-cut of the Paul Kauffmann edition, Nuremberg, 1615. 36 texted settings a5 and 11 a4 textless settings by J.L. Hassler and Valintin Haussmann. For voices, with or without instruments. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $58 [item no.7582]


HEYDEN, Sebald, 1499-1561

De arte canendi. A Facsimile of the Nuremberg 1540 edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/139. New York, 1969. 16 x 23 cm, 175 pp. Line-cut. An instruction book for the boys at St. Sebaldus School in Nuremberg where the author was rector. Contains detailed treatment of the transpositions of the ecclesiastical modes, in itself a significant step forward from the Guidonian hexachord system to the modern system of major and minor scales. Numerous musical examples. Laid paper with handsome binding in white cloth. [item no.2622]


HŒZLIN, Joseph, 16-17th c.

Sacrarum melodiarum [tribus vocibus]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 27. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 19 cm, 3 partbooks, 72 pp. Line-cut of the Abraham Wagenmann edition, Nuremberg, 1605. 19 settings a3 with sacred texts. Wrappers, with handsome portfolio in marbled paper. $58 [item no.7526]


Sacrarum melodiarum [tribus vocibus]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 27. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 19 cm, 3 partbooks, 72 pp. Line-cut of the Abraham Wagenmann edition, Nuremberg, 1605. 19 settings a3 with sacred texts. Wrappers. $34 [item no.7527]


HOVE, Joachim van den, 1567-1620

Delitiae musicae [sive cantiones, e quamplurimis praestantissimorum nostri aevi musicorum libris selectae]. Utrecht, de Roy 1612, RISM 1612(18). [Stadtbibliothek, Mainz].

Faksimile-Edition Laute, 5. Stuttgart, 2002. 20 x 32 cm, 136 pp. Line-cut of the Utrecht, 1612 edition. Contains c.40 works by Hove, plus intabulations of a number of Italian masters. Preludes, pavans, passamezzi, galliards, etc., in French tablature. Hardbound with decorative paper. $95 [item no.8157]


Florida, sive cantiones [. . .] ad testudinis usum accommodatae (Utrecht 1601). Uitgegeven door / Edited by Taco Walstra met medewerking van / with the co-operation of David van Ooijen & Rudolf Rasch.

Utrecht, 2004 4˚, 31, 224 pp. Line-cut of the Utrecht, 1601 edition. Dutch lute music (fantasies, intabulations of Italian vocal music, gaillardes, passamezzi, allemandes, etc.) written for 7 and 8 course renaissance lute in French tablature. Cloth. $128 [item no.8529]


HUME, Tobias, c.1569-1645

[Ayres, voice, lute/viola da gamba] The First Part of Ayres 1605. Edited by Frank Traficante.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 24. London, 3/ 1985. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 120 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1605 edition. In lyra-viol tablature notation. Wrappers. (replaced by OMI catalog no. 9614) [item no.3010]


[Ayres, voice, lute/viola da gamba] The First Part of Ayres 1605. Edited by Frank Traficante.

Toronto c. 2014 21.5 x 35.5 cm, 120 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1605 edition. In lyra-viol tablature notation. Ring binder. $50 [item no.9614]


Captain Humes; Poeticall Musicke 1607. Edited by Frank Traficante.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 25. London, 2/ 1977. 27 x 37 cm, iii, 52 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1607 edition. In lyra-voil tablature notation. Wrappers. (replaced by OMI catalog no. 9615) [item no.3011]


Captain Humes; Poeticall Musicke 1607.

Toronto, 2018. 21.5 x 35.5 cm, 52 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1607 edition. In lyra-voil tablature notation. Ring binder. $50 [item no.9615]


ISAAC, Heinrich, c.1450-1517

Coralis constantini, primus tomus. Introduction: Edward R. Lerner. [Bayerische Staatsbibl., Munich].

Facsimile Series, III/14. Peer, 1991. 8º, 4 partbooks: xii, 540 pp. Line-cut of the H. Formschneider edition, Nuremberg, 1550. The first collection of polyphonic settings of the proprium for the whole liturgical year. Composed for the Hapsburg Royal Chapel. Senfl, Isaac’s pupil, is credited with completing some of the unfinished compositions. Wrappers, & slipcase. $75 (more info... ) [item no.3897]


Coralis constantini, tomus secundus. Introduction: Edward R. Lerner. [Bayerische Staatsbibl., Munich].

Facsimile Series, III/15. Peer, 1993. Oblong, 19 x 16 cm, 4 partbooks, xii, 536 pp. Line-cut of the Formschneider edition, Nuremberg, 1555. Wrappers, & slipcase. $75 (more info... ) [item no.4192]


Choralis constantini, tertius tomus. Introduction: Edward R. Lerner. [Bayerische Staatsbibl., Munich].

Facsimile Series, III/16. Peer, 1995. Oblong, 19 x 16 cm, 4 partbooks, xii, 724 pp. Line-cut of the Formschneider edition, Nuremberg, 1555. Wrappers, & slipcase. $95 (more info... ) [item no.4193]


JEEP, Johannes, 1581-1644

Studentengärtleins [erster Theil. Neuer lustiger weltlicher Liedlein mit 3.4. und 5. Stimmen]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 14. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 19 cm, 4 partbooks, c.98 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1614 edition. 34 entirely homophonic strophic setting in mensural notation. Considered among the finest songs composed in the wake of Hassler. Hardbound, in slipcase. $85 [item no.7381]


Studentengärtleins [erster Theil. Neuer lustiger weltlicher Liedlein mit 3.4. und 5. Stimmen]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 14. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 19 cm, 4 partbooks, c.98 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1614 edition. 34 entirely homophonic, strophic setting in mensural notation. Considered among the finest songs composed in the wake of Hassler. Wrappers. $67 [item no.7382]


JESPERSSØN, Niel, 16th c. [compiler]

Niels Jesperssøns Graduale 1573. Facimileudgave med Efterskrift af Erik Abrahamsen (1935), Erik Dal og Henrik Glahn. Udgivet af Dansk Organist- og Kantorsamfund of Samfundet Dansk Kirkesang.

Copenhagen, 1986. 21 x 31 cm, i, 479, 50 pp. Reprint of the 1935 edition with new commentary, tables, and a study of the melodies. Hardbound. $106 [item no.1737]


JOBST VON BRANDT, 1517-1570

Der erste Theil geistlicher Psalmen und teutscher Kirchengeseng [Mit reichem Geist durch hocherleuchte Menner, zur Ehr Gottes, und trost der Christenheit zierlich, lustig und schön gemacht, durch den edlen, vehsten, und fürtrefflichen Componisten Jobsten von Brandt, mit vier fünff, sechtz, siben, acht und neun stim[m]en auff Instrumentent, Posaunen und menschlicher stim[m]e zu gebrauchen sehr künstlich gesetzet. Dergleichen biss auff diese Zeit durch den Druck noch nicht an Tag kommen]. Eger/Hanns Bürger 1573.

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 77. Stuttgart, 2017. Oblong, 23 x 18 cm, 4 partbooks, 1224 pp, 40 pp. Line-cut of the 1572 partbook edition Discantus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus). 45 settings for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 9 voices and/or instruments. Hardbound. $122 [item no.9607]


JONES, Robert, c.1577-c.1615

The Muses Gardin 1610. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 30. London, 1978. 27 x 32 cm, iii, 30 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1610 edition, in table book format. 21 pieces for soprano, lute and bass viol (in French tablature and staff notation). Wrappers. $42 [item no.3012]


A Musicall Dreame 1609. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 29. London, 2/ 1980. 27 x 32 cm, iii, 47 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1609 edition, in table book format. Pieces for 2 voices, lute and viola da gamba; 4 voices, lute and viol; and solo voice with lute and/or viol accompaniment (in French tablature and staff notation). Wrappers. $41 [item no.3013]


[Songs & ayres, book 1] The First Booke of Songes and Ayres 1600. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 26. London, 2/ 1978. 27 x 32 cm, iii, 46 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1600 edition, in table book format. 21 pieces for 4 voices with lute accompaniment (in French tablature and staff notation). Wrappers. $43 [item no.3014]


[Songs & ayres, book 2] The Second Booke of Songes and Ayres 1601. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 27. London, 2/ 1978. 27 x 32 cm, iii, 47 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1601 edition, in table book format. 21 pieces for soprano and bass voices with lute and viol accompaniment (in French tablature and staff notation). Wrappers. $43 [item no.3015]


Ultimum Vale 1605. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 28. London, 2/ 1978. 27 x 32 cm, iii, 46 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1605 edition, in table book format. Pieces for solo voice, lute and viola da gamba; 4 voices, lute and viol; and two treble voices with lute and/or viol accompaniment (in French tablature and staff notation). Wrappers. $43 [item no.3016]


JORIS, David, 16th c.

Een geestelijck Liedt-Boecxken: Inholdende veel schoone sinrijcke christelijcke liedekens.

Mennonite Songbooks: Dutch Series, I. Amsterdam, 1971. Oblong, 11 x 9 cm, 190 pp. Line-cut of the Dierick Mullem edition, Rotterdam, c.1580. Includes 25 musical settings. Linen. $85 [item no.3227]


JOSQUIN DES PRÉS, c.1440-1521

[Masses, book 1] Liber primus missarum. Ottaviano Petrucci / 29. Mai 1516. [Library of Congress, Washington DC].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 94. Stuttgart, [2021]. Oblong, 8º, 4 partbooks, 126 pp. Line-cut of the Petrucci edition, Venice, 1516 [RISM J668]. An immensely popular set of masses which went through six separate printings. Contents: L’homme armé super voces musicales; La.sol.fa.re.mi.; Gaudeamus; Fortuna desperata; L’homme armé sextitoni. Wrappers with portfolio covered with decorative paper and tie strings. $54 [item no.9644]


[Masses, book 2; Mass fragments] Missarum [libri secundi] Josquin, Venetiis, Petrucci, 1505; Fragmenta missarum, Venezia, Petrucci 1505. [Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 32. Stuttgart, 2002. Oblong, 24 x 16 cm, 4 partbooks, c.200 pp. Line-cut of two separate Petrucci partbooks, Venice, 1505/1505. Contains the masses Ave maris stella, Hercules dux ferrarie, Malheur me bat, La mi baudichon, Una musque de Buscaya, and Dung aultre amer. Hardbound, in decorative paper, with matching slipcase. $194 [item no.8137]


KAPSBERGER, Johann Hieronymus, c.1575-c.1640

[Arias, voice, bc, book 1-2; Motets, voice, bc, book 1] Libro primo di arie passeggiate a una voce con l’intavolatura del chitarone, Roma 1612; Libro primo di motetti passeggiati a una voce, Roma 1612; Libro secondo d’arie a una e più voci, Roma 1623.

Archivum Musicum: Strumentalismo Italiano, 32. Florence, 1980. 24 x 34 cm, 3 booklets, v, 80 pp. Halftone and line-cut. Over 60 monodies among the 3 publications, the first and third from engraved plates, the second in movable type. Italian lute tablature occurs only the arias of book I, otherwise staff notation has been employed. Introduction in It by Orlando Cristoforetti. Wrappers and slip cover in decorative paper. $49 [item no.1269]


[motets] Libro primo de motetti passegiati [à una voce]. Rom 1612. [Library of Congress, Washingon, DC].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 103. Stuttgart, 2023 23 x 32 cm. 24 pp. Color reproduction of the Rome, 1612 edition. Hardbound with decorative paper boards. $40 [item no.9720]


[Villanelle, a1-3, books 1-4] Libro primo [secondo, terzo & quarto] di villanelle a 1, 2, & 3 voci, Roma, 1610 [1619, 1619, & 1623].

Archivum Musicum: Strumentalismo Italiano, 28. Florence, 1982. 24 x 34 cm, ii, 4 books, 96 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1610, 1619, 1619 & 1623 editions. Contains 83 villanelle. Notated in score (staff notation) with lute accompaniment in Italian tablature for books 1 & 3. Books 2 & 4 are printed in movable type using staff notation. Introduction in It by Orlando Cristoforetti. Wrappers in decorative paper with slip case. $40 (more info... ) [item no.1065]


KEIFFERER, Christian, c.1570-1636

Iubilus Bernardi [Ex melitissimo D. Bernhardi iubilio delibatus modisque musicis tribus vocibus]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 4. Stuttgart, 1996. 15 x 19 cm, 3 partbooks, 72 pp. Line-cut of the Dillingen, 1611 edition. 18 sacred songs a3 in mensural notation. Wrappers, with handsome slipcase in marbled paper. $58 [item no.7301]


KNÖFEL, Johann, fl.1571-1592

Cantus choralis. Musicis numeris quinque vocum inclusus, eo ordine, quo per totum anni curriculum praecipuis diebus festis in ecclesia cantari solet. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 3. Stuttgart, 1995. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 5 partbooks, 438 pp. Line-cut of the Dietrich Gerlach edition, Nuremberg, 1575. 14 sacred setting for five voices, in mensural notation, arranged by the liturgical calendar. Hardbound, in slipcase. $155 [item no.7180]


Cantus choralis. Musicis numeris quinque vocum inclusus, eo ordine, quo per totum anni curriculum praecipuis diebus festis in ecclesia cantari solet. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 3. Stuttgart, 1995. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 5 partbooks, 438 pp. Line-cut of the Dietrich Gerlach edition, Nuremberg, 1575. 14 sacred settings for five voices, in mensural notation, arranged by the liturgical calendar. Wrappers. $122 [item no.7181]


Newe teutsche Liedlein [mit fünff Stimmen, welche den mehrern Theil den Brauch diser Welt beschreiben und anzeigen als nemlich von untrew der Leute von vil zusagen und wenig halten von guten worten und falschem her]. Nürnberg, Katharina Gerlach und Johann vom Berg Erben 1581. [Bayerische Staatsbibl., Munich].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 19. Stuttgart, 2000. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 4 partbooks, 280 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1581 edition. 23 settings for five voices, with or without instruments. Hardbound in decorative paper, with matching slipcase. $128 [item no.8247]


LACORCIA, Scipione, c.1585-c.1620

Il secondo libro de’ madrigali à cinque voci. [Biblioteca del Conservatorio, Naples].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 40. Stuttgart, 2002. 16 x 23 cm, 5 partbooks, 115 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1616 edition. A rare print with 19 madrigals for five voices. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $44 [item no.8099]


Il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci. [Biblioteca del Conservatorio, Naples].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 38. Stuttgart, 2002. 16 x 23 cm, 5 partbooks, 115 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1620 edition. A rare print containing 17 madrigals for five voices. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $43 [item no.8098]


LAGKNER, Daniel, c.1550-c.1607

Flores jessaei [musicis modulis & sere tribus paribus adaptati]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 15. Stuttgart, 1997. 14 x 19 cm, 3 partbooks, c.60 pp. Line-cut of the Paulus Kauffmann edition, Nuremberg, 1606. 28 sacred Protestant works a3 (for boys’ voices). Wrappers, with slipcase. $52 [item no.7435]


LAMBARDI, Camillo, 16th c.

Il primo libro de madrigali a quattro voci. [Biblioteca del Conservatorio, Naples].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 37. Stuttgart, 2002. 16 x 23 cm, 4 partbooks, 84 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1600 edition. 21 madrigals a4. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $42 [item no.8102]


LASSO, Orlando di, 1532-1594

Fasciculi aliquot [sacraerum cantionum cum quatuor, quinque, sex & octo vocibus, antea quidem separatim excusi, nunc vero auctoris contensu in unum corpus redacti].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 28. Stuttgart, 1997. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 6 partbooks, 888 pp. Line-cut of the Dietrich Gerlach edition, Nuremberg, 1582. Magnificent collection of 85 sacred songs and motets for 4, 5, 6 & 8 voices. Wrappers. $211 [item no.7535]


Teutsche Psalmen. [Geistliche Psalmen mit dreyen Stimmen welche mit alain lieblich zu singen sonder auch auff aller hand art Instrumenten zugebrauchen.] [Archiv, Freiherrn von Fürstenberg Herdringen].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 41. Stuttgart, 2003. Oblong, 19 x 14 cm, 3 partbooks, 150 pp. Line-cut of the A. Berg edition, Munich, 1588. 50 setting a3, suitable for voices or instruments. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $47 [item no.8202]


[Motets a5-6, book 1] Il primo libro de motetti [a cinque et a sei voci]. Einführung: Horst Leuchtmann. [Staatsbibl. zu Berlin, Musikabteilung].

Facsimile Series, I/B.23. Peer, 1993. Oblong, 8º, 5 partbooks, 16, 154 pp. Line-cut of the Johannes Laet edition, Antwerp, 1556. Lasso dedicated this work–also known as the “Antwerp Motet Book”–to Antoine Perrenot de Granville, Bishop of Arras and Secretary of State of Charles V. Contains 18 motets, some of which were undoubtedly written in Italy, but clearly rewritten in Antwerp. Wrappers, with slipcover. $40 [item no.4191]


Moduli nondum prius editi monachi boioariae ternis vocibus, ab Orlando Lasso Compositi. RISM L.886. [London, British Library].

[Yellow Book Series, 8]. Højbjerg, 2006. Oblong, 21 x 16 cm, 3 partbooks, 96 pp. Line-cut of the Ballard edition, Paris, 1576. 15 motet settings in partbook format (Superius, Tenor, Bassus) in mensural notation. Contents: Ave regina caelorum, Beati omnes, Cantate Dominio, Christus resurgens, Domine non est, Deus tu scis, Ego sum resurrectio, Exaudi me Domine, Ego sum pauper, Ego dixi Domine, Exaudi Deus, Haec quae ter triplici, Laetatus sum, O Maria clausus, Sancta & immaculata. Wrappers, with slipcase. $97 [item no.8781]


Newe teütsche Liedlein. [Dressler:] Zehen deudscher Psalmen. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 5. Stuttgart, 1995. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 5 partbooks, 255 pp. Line-cut of the Adam Berg edition, Munich, 1567. 10 psalm settings a4 and 5 by Dressler and 19 settings on German sacred texts by Lasso. Hardbound with slipcase. $129 [item no.7210]


LE MAISTRE, Matthaeus, c.1505-c.1577

Geistliche und weltliche teutsche Geseng. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 7. Stuttgart, 1996. Oblong, 19 x 14 cm, 5 partbooks, c.600 pp. Line-cut of the J. Schwertel edition, Wittenberg, 1566. 92 pieces for 4, 5, and 6 voices. Hardbound, with slip case. $186 [item no.7279]


LE VAVASSEUR, Nicolas, 16-17th c.

Airs à III. IIII. et V. parties. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 11. Stuttgart, 1996. Oblong, 13 x 9 cm, 5 partbooks, c.325 pp. Line-cut of the Pierre Ballard edition, Paris, 1623. 27 airs for three, four and five parts, suitable for voices or instruments. Wrappers, with handsome slipcase in marbled paper. $78 [item no.7347]


LOBWASSER, Ambrosius, 1515-1585

Psalter dess königlichen Propheten Davids. Herausgegeben und kommentiert von Eckhard Grunewald und Henning P. Jürgens. In Zusammenarbeit mit Dieter Gutknecht und Lars Kessner.

Hildesheim 2004. 12˚, 2 vols, 1263 pp. Line-cut of the Leipzig, 1576 (2nd, revised) edition. The most important work of literature of reformed German Protestantism and the German equivalent to the 1562 Geneva Psalter of Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze. It became the source for for all later Lobwasser Psalters. Linen. $192 [item no.8595]


LOSSIUS, Lucas, 1508-1582

Erotemata musicae practicae. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/53. Bologna, 1980. 12 x 18 cm, 207 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1563 edition. With numerous musical examples in mensural notation, many in choirbook format. Laid paper. Cloth. [item no.2486]


Psalmodia, hoc est, Cantica sacra verteris ecclesiae selecta, quo ordine et melodiis per totius anni curriculum. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 12. Stuttgart, 1996. 15 x 20 cm, 743 pp. Line-cut of the Wittenberg, 1561 edition. Important source of north German hymnody. In German neume notation. Hardbound. $178 [item no.7346]


LOTTER, Michael, 16th c.

Enchiridion geistliker leder unde Psalmen, Magdeburg 1536. Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition by Stephen A. Crist. [Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, Atlanta].

Emory Texts and Studies in Ecclesial Life, 2. [Atlanta], 1994. 8º, 120, with 68 pp. Halftone of a unique copy of a Low German Lutheran hymnal (absent in studies by Wackernagel, Geffcken, Bachmann, Wiechmann & others). One of the earliest hymnals published in Magdeburg, patterned after the first congregational hymnal published c.1530 inLeipzig by Michael Blum. Includes four handwritten hymns on its endpapers added in the early 1540s. Introduction, inventory & bibliography. Cloth. $60 [item no.4815]


LYTTICH Johann, c.1581-1611

Venus-Glöcklein, oder Newe weltliche Gesänge mit anmuthtigen Melodien und lustigen Texten auff vier und fünff Stimmen. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 1. Stuttgart, 1996. 14 x 19 cm, 5 partbooks, 350 pp. Line-cut of the Johan Weidner edition, Jena, 1610. 20 songs a4 & a5, and 13 instrumental pieces. Mensural notation. Wrappers, with handsome slipcase in marbled paper. $83 [item no.7295]


Venus-Glöcklein, oder Newe weltliche Gesänge mit anmuthtigen Melodien und lustigen Texten auff vier und fünff Stimmen. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 1. Stuttgart, 1996. 14 x 19 cm, 5 partbooks, 350 pp. Line-cut of the Johan Weidner edition, Jena, 1610. 20 songs a4 & a5, and 13 instrumental pieces. Mensural notation. Wrappers. $67 [item no.7296]


MARENZIO, Luca, 1553-1599

[Villanelle & arias, a3, book 4] Villanelle et arie alla napolitana a tre voci. Libri quattro.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/67. Bologna, 1979. 15 x 21 cm, 3 partbooks, c.390 pp. Line-cut of four Giacomo Vincenti editions issued in Venice between 1595 and 1596. 90 settings in all. Wrappers with handsome portfolio in cloth. [item no.1334]


[Villanelle, a3, selections, book 4, w/German texts] Außzug auß Lucae Marentii vier Theilen seiner italianischen dreystimmigen Villanellen und Napolitanien so zuvor in Teutschland nicht vil gesehen worden . Dem Autori zu Ehren und denen so der italianischen Sprach nicht kundig zu besserm gebrauch jetzo mit teutschen Texten gezieret... [von Valentin Haussmann].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 24. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 20 cm, 3 partbooks, c.155 pp. Line-cut of the Paulus Kauffmann edition, Nuremberg, 1606. 51 villanelle a3, set with German texts. Wrappers, with slipcase. $73 [item no.7393]


[Villanelle, a3, selections, book 4, w/German texts] Außzug auß Lucae Marentii vier Theilen seiner italianischen dreystimmigen Villanellen und Napolitanien so zuvor in Teutschland nicht vil gesehen worden . Dem Autori zu Ehren und denen so der italianischen Sprach nicht kundig zu besserm gebrauch jetzo mit teutschen Texten gezieret... [von Valentin Haussmann].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 24. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 20 cm, 3 partbooks, c.155 pp. Line-cut of the Paulus Kauffmann edition, Nuremberg, 1606. 51 villanelle a3, set with German texts. Wrappers. $47 [item no.7394]


MASON, George, 16-17th c.

[& John Earsden] The Ayres that were Sung and Played at Brougham Castle 1608. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 31. London, 2/ 1978. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 20 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1608 edition. Settings for 1-2 voices & lute, in staff notation and French tablature. 1 work calls for bass viol in addition. Wrappers. $43 [item no.3017]


MASSAINO, Tiburtio, c.1550-c.1609

Sacri modulorum concentus, a 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 e 12 voci (Venezia 1592). Edizione critica di Rafaello Monterosso. Introduzione; facsimile; testi letterari-trascrizione in notazione moderna.

Instituta et Monumenta, I/VI. Cremona, 1971. 25 x 35 cm, 182 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1592 edition, together with a new practical edition. $91 [item no.1335]


MAYNARD, John, c.1577-c.1614

The XII Wonders of the World 1611. Edited by Ian Harwood.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 32. London, 2/ 1978. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 48 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1611 edition, in table book format. Collection of songs for solo voice with lute/lyra viol and bass viol accompaniment (staff notation & French tablature). Instrumental pieces for bass viol and lute. Wrappers. $43 [item no.3018]


MEILAND, Jacob, 1542-1577

Cantiones aliquot [novae, quas vulgo motetas vocant, quinque vocibus summo studio compositae: quibus adiuncta sunt officia duo]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 17. Stuttgart, 1997. Oblong, 20 x 17 cm, 5 partbooks, 240 pp. Line-cut of the Frankfurt, 1576 edition. 21 motet settings a5. Hardbound in vellum paper, with matching slipcase. $129 [item no.7445]


Cantiones aliquot [novae, quas vulgo motetas vocant, quinque vocibus summo studio compositae: quibus adiuncta sunt officia duo]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 17. Stuttgart, 1997. Oblong, 20 x 17 cm, 5 partbooks, 240 pp. Line-cut of the Frankfurt, 1576 edition. 21 motet settings a5. Wrappers. $99 [item no.7446]


METZGER, Ambrosius, 1573-1632

Venusblümlein [erster Theil neuer lustiger Liedlein mit vier Stimmen welche nicht allein lieblich zu singen sondern auch auff hand Instrumentis artlich zu gebrauchen]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 16. Stuttgart, 1997. 14 x 20 cm, 4 partbooks, 128 pp. Line-cut of the G.L. Fuhrmann edition, Nuremberg, 1611. 25 secular settings a4. Hardbound in vellum paper, with matching slipcase. $68 [item no.7443]


Venusblümlein [erster Theil neuer lustiger Liedlein mit vier Stimmen welche nicht allein lieblich zu singen sondern auch auff hand Instrumentis artlich zu gebrauchen]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 16. Stuttgart, 1997. 14 x 20 cm, 4 partbooks, 128 pp. Line-cut of the G.L. Fuhrmann edition, Nuremberg, 1611. 25 secular settings a4. Wrappers. $50 [item no.7444]


MILÁN, Luís, c.1500-d.?

Libro de música de vihuela de mano intitulado El maestro. Valencia, 1536. [Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid].

Madrid, 2008. 20 x 29 cm, xxvi, 202 pp. Full-color reproduction of the Valencia, 1536 edition. Of utmost importance not only to vihuela enthusiasts but also to renaissance lute players and modern classical guitarists. “El Maestro” (“the Teacher”) was created as a method and is the earliest known example of Spanish tablature for the vihuela in print. The music it contains is exquisite: 40 fantasies, 40 preludes, 6 pavanas, 6 Christmas carols for vihuela and voice, 4 old romances and 6 sonnets. El Maestro is presented in levels from simple to complex, so that a beginning vihuelist can proceed from elementary to more complicated pieces as he or she learns. Many are of considerable virtuosity and compositional styles vary from simple homophony to polyphonic with virtuoso passage work. One notices immediately the great care with which the work was created and engraved. Alternate passages are given for players who wish to avoid more virtuosic parts, sections of pieces are indicated as optional, and Milan provides verbal tempo indications. The "vocal" notes in the tablatures for the Christmas carols have been painstakenly printed with red ink (a precursor of Bach’s use of red ink for the Biblical texts of the St. Matthew Passion). The music of Luis Milan is popular with performers to this present-day—both classical guitarists and lutinests regard El Maestro as an integral part of their repertoire. Introduction in Spanish by Gerardo Arriaga. Beautifully hard bound, with coverboards being a replica of the original. $125 (more info... ) [item no.9156]


MODERNE, Jacques, fl.1523-1544 [publisher]

[Motets, a5 & a6] Tertius liber mottetorum ad quinque e sex voces. Lyon, Moderne. RISM 1538(2).

Faksimile-Editionen Psalmen und Motetten, 2. Stuttgart, 2002. Oblong, 25 x 18 cm, 4 partbooks, c.224 pp. Line-cut of the Lyon, 1538 edition. Collection of 26 vocal (or instrumental) motets by Gombert, Archadelt, Verdelot and their contemporaries. Hardbound with decorative paper and matching slipcase. $124 [item no.8160]


MONTEVERDI, Claudio, 1567-1643

[Madrigals, a5, book 1] Il primo libro dei madrigali. Edizione critica di Raffaello Monterosso. Introduzione, facsimile integrale dell’edizione del 1587.

Instituta et Monumenta, I/V.2. Cremona, 1970. 25 x 35 cm, 132 pp. Line-cut in reduced format of the Gardano, 1587 edition. 21 settings. With new authoritative edition. Edition of 1000 copies. Linen. $140 [item no.426]


[Madrigals, a5, book 1] Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, Gardano 1587 (Bernard Bailly de Surcy).

[The Works of Claudio Monteverdi], I. New York, 1972. 23 x 30 cm, xxxix, 138 pp. Critical edition of the Gardano first edition of 1587 and companioni volume to the above. Introduction in Fr-Eng-It-Ger. Translations of the original Italin texts into modern Italian, French, English and German. Wrappers. Rare. $95 [item no.428]


[Madrigals, a5, book 2] Il secondo libro dei madrigali. Edizione critica de Anna Maria Monterosso Vacchelli. Introduzione, facsimili integrali delle edizioni del 1590 e del 1607.

Instituta et Monumenta, I/V.3. Cremona, 1979. 25 x 35 cm, 186 pp. Line-cut in reduced format of the early Gardano and later Gauerii editions. 21 settings. With new authoritative edition. Edition of 1000 copies. Linen. $162 [item no.429]


[Madrigals, a5, book 3] Il terzo libro dei madrigali. Edizione critica di Maria Teresa Rosa Barezzqani. Introduzione – Facsimile integrale dell’edizione del 1592 – Trascrizione in notazione moderna.

Instituta et Monumenta, I/V.4. Cremona, 1988. 25 x 35 cm, 212 pp. Line-cut in reduced format of the Amadino edition. 20 settings. With new authoritative edition. Edition of 1000 copies. Linen. $190 [item no.430]


[Madrigals, a5, book 4] Il quarto libro dei madrigali. Edizione critica di Elena Ferrari Barassi. Introduzione, fascimile integrale dell’edizione del 1603.

Instituta et Monumenta, I/V.5. Cremona, 1974. 25 x 35 cm, 200 pp. Line-cut in reduced format of the Amadino edition. 20 settings. With new authoritative edition. Edition of 1000 copies. Linen. $132 [item no.431]


[Madrigals, a5, book 5] Madrigali a 5 voci, libro quinto. Edizione critica di Maria Caraci.

Instituta et Monumenta, I/V.6. Cremona, 1984. 25 x 35 cm, 72, 28, 116 pp. Line-cut in reduced format of the Amadino edition, Venice 1605. 19 settings. With new authoritative edition. Edition of 1000 copies. Linen. $163 [item no.432]


[Madrigals, a5, book 6] Il sesto libro dei madrigali. Edizione critica di Antonio Delfino. Introduziione – Facsimile integrale dell’edizione del 1615 – Trascrizione in notazione moderna.

Instituta et Monumenta, I/V.10. Cremona, 1991. 25 x 35 cm, 228 pp. Line-cut, in reduced format, of the Amadino, 1615 edition. 18 settings. With new authoritative edition. Linen. $363 [item no.433]


[Mass a6, Magnificat, & Vespers] Missa de capella a sei / Vespro della beata vergine. Edizione critica di Antonio Delfino. Introduzione, Facsimile integrale dell’edizione del 1610.

Instituta et Monumenta, I/V.09. Cremona, 2005. 25 x 35 cm, 2 vols, 612 pp. Line-cut in reduced format, with new authoritative edition. Edition of 1000 copies. Linen. $525 [item no.8960]


Scherzi musicali a tre voci. Introduzione di Iain Fenlon.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/80. Bologna, 1998. 21 x 31 cm, 16, 50 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1607 edition. 17 scherzi and 1 balletto in choirbook format. Introduction in It-Eng. Wrappers. $39 (more info... ) [item no.7729]


Scherzi musicali a tre voci. Edizione critica di Frank Dobbins. Introduzione, Facsimile integrale dell’edizione del 1607.

Instituta et Monumenta, I/V.7. Cremona, 2002. 25 x 35 cm, 166 pp. Line-cut in reduced format, with new authoritative edition. Edition of 1000 copies. Linen. $264 [item no.8957]


Scherzi musicali a una e due voci. Edizione critica di Frank Dobbins e Anna Maria Vacchelli. Introduzione, Facsimile integrale dell’edizione del 1632.

Instituta et Monumenta, I/V.12. Cremona, 2002. 25 x 35 cm, 94 pp. Line-cut in reduced format, with new authoritative edition. Edition of 1000 copies. Linen. $222 [item no.8958]


MORALES, Cristóbal, 1500-1553

Magnificat omnitonum cum quatuor vocibus. RISM 1562(1)/M3597. [Brussels, Konikklijke Bibliotheek].

[Yellow Book Series, 11]. Højbjerg, 2015. 28 x 41 cm, 128 pp. Line-cut of the Antonio Gardano edition, Venice, 1562. 16 settings (mostly a4) by Morales, with additional works by Carpentras (2), Iachet (1), and Richafort (1), beautifully and clearly printed in choirbook format. Wrappers $120 (more info... ) [item no.9446]


MORLEY, Thomas, 1557-1602

[Ayres] The First Book of Ayres 1600. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 33. London, 2/ 1977. 26 x 37 cm, iii, 36 pp. Line-cut. Wrappers. $41 [item no.3019]


[Canzonets, a2] The First Booke of Canzonets to Two Voyces.

Performers’ Facsimiles, 39. New York, [1988]. 4º, 2 partbooks, c.60 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1595 edition. 11 duos (with texts) for cantus and tenor. Also contains 9 instrumental fantasies. Wrappers. $25 [item no.2693]


[Canzonets, a3] Canzonets or Little Short Songs to Three Voyces. Library of Congress & Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 93. New York, [1990]. 18 x 25 cm, 3 partbooks, c.132 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1593 edition. 20 canzonets for cantus, altus & bass. Wrappers. $35 [item no.3885]


Madrigales. The Triumphes of Oriana, to 5. and 6. Voices: Composed by Divers Severall Authors. Newly Published by Thomas Morley.

Performers’ Facsimiles, 63. New York, [1992]. 18 x 24 cm, 6 partbooks, c.150 pp. Line-cut of the Thomas Este edition, London, 1601. Wonderful anthology of works by Bennet, Carlton, Cavendish, Cobbold, Farmer, Gibbons, Hilton, Holmes, Hunt, Johnson, Jones, Kirbye, Lisley, Marson, Milton, Morley, Mundy, Nicholson, Norcombe, Tomkins, Weelkes and Wilbye. Wrappers. $45 [item no.4413]


MOUTON, Jean, c.1459-1522

[Masses, 4 voices] Missae Ioannis Mouton [Liber primus]. Fossombrone / Ottaviiano Petrucci 1515. [Library of Congress, Washington DC].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 102. Stuttgart, 2022. Oblong, 24 x 16 cm. 4 partbooks, 128 pp. Line-cut of the 1515 Petrucci edition. Five masses in partbook format (Superius, Altus, Tenor, Bassus). Contents: Missa Comme, Missa Alleluya, Missa Alma redemptoris, Missa Itez alia sine nomine, & Missa Regina mearum. Wrappers with portfolio covered with decorative paper and tie strings. $57 [item no.9706]


MOY, Louys de, 17th c.

Le petit boucquet, de frise orientale, contenant quelques chansonnettes musicales pour toucher du luth join deux violes de gambas parmy les vois: et autres padvanes pour le luth et violons communs. Introduction: M. Jape [Universitätsbibl., Rostock].

Facsimile Series, I/B.14. Peer, 1987. 14 x 21 cm, 142 pp. Line-cut of the 1631 edition. Contains French chansons for soprano, bass and lute (French tablature), 1 Dutch polyphonic song and pavanes for descant and bass viol with lute accompaniment. Hardbound. $41 [item no.1581]


MÜLLER, Andreas, 16-17th c. [compiler]

Newe teutsche Canzonetten [mit dreyen Stimmen von den fürtrefflichsten italianischen Componisten auff ihre Sprach componiert und hiehevor in Italia zusammen getruckt. An zetzo aber mit unser Sprach den teutschen Musicus, Instrumentisten und andern der Music Liebhabern zu Gefallen].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 47. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 20 cm, 3 partbooks, 90 pp. Line-cut of the Wolffgang Richter edition, Frankfurt, 1608. 26 settings a3 (with German texts) by Palestrina, Soriano, Zucchelli, Petrino, Giovanelli, Crivello, Nanino, Stabile, Anerio, Ricordi, Orlandino, Quagliato, Cossa, Locatello, Marenzio, & Müller. Wrappers, with slipcase in marbled paper. $55 [item no.7462]


NAUWACH, Johann, c.1595-c.1630

Libro primo di arie, passegiate a una voce per cantar, e sonar nel chitarrone, et altri simili istromenti. [Bayerische Staatsbibl., Munich].

Munich, 1984. 21 x 30 cm, 23, 23 pp. Line-cut of the Dresden, 1623 edition. 12 numbers in mensural notation. Includes additional score with realization of the basso continuo in French tablature for lute in g by Konrad Jünghänel. Wrappers. $28 [item no.3933]


NOLA, Giovanni Domenico da, c.1510-1592

[Villanelle, a3 & a4, book 1] Il primo libro delle villanelle alla napolitana, à tre et à quattro voci, RISM 1570(27). [Bayerische Staatsbibl., Munich].

[Yellow Book Series, 2]. Højbjerg, 198?. 11 x 15 cm, 3 partbooks, c.120 pp. Line-cut of the Girolamo Scotto edition, Venice, 1570. Contains 29 simple Italian pieces, many in AABCC form, for 3 and 4 voices. Wrappers, with slipcover. $44 [item no.1679]


OCHSENKHUN, Sebastian, 1521-1574

Tabulaturbuch auff die Lauten [von Moteten, frantzösischen, welschen und teütschen geystlichen und weltlichen Liedern], Heidelberg, J. Kohlen 1558. [Herzog-August-Bibl., Wolfenbüttel].

Faksimile-Edition Laute, 4. Stuttgart, 2001. 22 x 31 cm, 187 pp. Line-cut of the Heidelberg, 1558 edition. 76 pieces for solo lute notated in German lute tablature. The intabulations of German lieder include several stanzas of text for each piece. Works by Josquin, Petschin, Senfel, Crequillon, Isaac, Hofhaimer, Mouton, Archadelt & others. Hardbound with decorative paper. $98 [item no.7941]


Tabulaturbuch auff die Lauten 1558. Facsimile of Leipzig II.2.45.

Lübeck, 2002. 4˚. Line-cut of folios 54-81 only, which tranmit 47 intabulations of German songs and motets by Isaac, Senfl, Stoltzer and others. German tablature, renaissance tuning. Wrappers. $33 [item no.8186]


OTHMAYR, Caspar, 1515-1553 [compiler]

Bicina sacra. [Schöne geistliche Lieder unnd Psalmen mit zwo Stimmen lieblich zu singen]. Gestelt durch Caspar Orthmayr. Nürnberg/ Berg und Neuber. [Ratsschulebibliothek, Zwickau].

Faksimile-Edition Zwickau, 7. Stuttgart, 2009. Oblong, 18 x 15 cm, 2 partbooks, 136 pp. Line-cut of the Berg & Neuber edition, Nuremberg, 1547. Wonderful collection 32 duets for instruments or voices. Hardbound in decorative paper, matching portfolio. $64 [item no.9113]


Symbola, illustrissimorum principum, nobilium, aliorumque doctrina, ac virtutum ornamentis praestantium virorum, musicis numeris explicata. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 4. Stuttgart, 1995. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 5 partbooks, 358 pp. Line-cut of the Montanus & Neuber edition, Nuremberg, 1547. 34 motets a5 featuring texts with heraldic mottoes, or symbola, of illustrious men of the day, the publisher among them. Hardbound, in slipcase. $164 [item no.7184]


Symbola, illustrissimorum principum, nobilium, aliorumque doctrina, ac virtutum ornamentis praestantium virorum, musicis numeris explicata. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 4. Stuttgart, 1995. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 5 partbooks, 358 pp. Line-cut of the Montanus & Neuber edition, Nuremberg, 1547. 34 motets a5 featuring texts with heraldic mottoes, or symbola, of illustrious men of the day, the publisher among them. Wrappers. $139 [item no.7185]


OTT, Hans, b.?-1546 [compiler]

[Lieder, 4-5 voices, 1534] Der erst Teil: Hundert ainund zweintzig newe Lieder... Nürnberg/Formschneider 1534. [Ratsschulebibliothek, Zwickau].

Faksimile-Edition Zwickau, 3. Stuttgart, 2006. Oblong, 15 x 9 cm, 5 partbooks, c.936 pp. Line-cut of the Formschneider edition, Nuremberg, 1534. A wonderful collection devoted mainly to German secular songs, and a primary source for the music of Ludwig Senfl. Hardbound in decorative paper, matching slipcase. $174 [item no.8816]


[Lieder, 4-6 voices, 1544] Hundert und fünfftzehen guter newer Liedlein [mit vier, fünff, sechs Stimmen, vor nie im cruck außgangen. Deutsch, Französisch, welsch und Lateinisch lustig zu singen und auff die Instrument dienstlich von den berhümbtesten diser Kunst gemacht]. RISM 1544(20). [SPKB, Berlin].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 28. Stuttgart, 2000. Oblong, 18 x 14 cm, 4 partbooks, c.750 pp. Line-cut of Nuremberg, 1544 edition. Wonderful anthology of German secular songs by Isaac, Senfl, Stoltzer. Müller & others. Hardbound in decorative paper, with matching slipcase. $229 [item no.7822]


PALESTRINA, Giovanni Pierluigi da, c.1525-1594

[Madrigals, a4, book 1] Il primo libro dei madrigali a quattro voci a cura di Giuliana Gialdroni.

Edizione Anastatica delle Fonti Palestriniane, I/2. Palestrina, 1989. 24 x 34 cm, 213, with 190 pp. Halftone in reduced format of the Dorico, Amadino, Vincenti, Gardano, & Scotto editions. In instances where significant variants between two editions of the same work occur, both versions are presented side by side, allowing easy analysis of melodic andrhythmic differences and text underlay. Wrappers. $133 [item no.3916]


[Messa L’homme armé] In, Anna M. Monterosso Vacchelli, La messa “L’homme armé” di Palestrina. Studio paleografico ed edizione critica.

Instituta et Monumenta, II/7. Cremona, 1979. 18 x 27 cm, 132, with 25 pp. Line-cut of the Gardano partbooks, Venice 1599. Reproduced in reduced format (4 to a page). Historical introduction and new authoritative edition with critical apparatus. Limited numbered edition of 500 copies. Wrappers. $140 [item no.1340]


[Masses, book 1] Missarum liber primus, Roma 1554. A cura di Giancarlo Rostirolla.

Edizione Anastatica delle Fonti Palestriniane, I/1. Palestrina, 1975. 24 x 34 cm, 25, 53 pp. Halftone in reduced format (4 plates per page) of the Dorico edition, Rome, 1554. Contains the masses Ecce sacerdos magnus, Gregem celi, Virtute magna, Gabriel archangelus and Ad cenam agni providi. Wrappers. $50 [item no.3917]


[Works, selection] Il codice 59 dell’Archivio Musicale della Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, autografo di G.P. da Palestrina. Edizione anastatica a cura di Giancarlo Rostirolla.

Edizione Anastatica delle Fonti Palestriniane, II/1. Palestrina, 1996. 24 x 33 cm, 89, 190 pp. Halftone of an important Palestrina autograph. Contains 56 compositions, notated in choirbook format. mostly settings a4 on lamentations and hymns texts. Introduction in It. Hardbound. $133 [item no.7369]


(Bianchi, Lino, & Giancarlo Rostirolla) Iconografia Palestriniana. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: immagini e documenti del suo tempo a cura di Lino Bianchi e Giancarlo Rostirolla con la collaborzione di Annalisa Bini e Fabio Failla.

L’Arte Armonica, IV/1. Lucca, 1994. 25 x 35 cm, 375 pp, with c.350 illus. $64 [item no.5629]


PECCI, Tomaso, c.1576-1606

[& Mariano Tantucci] Canzonette a tre voci.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/68. Bologna, 1979. Oblong & upright, 21 x 15 cm, 3 partbooks, 128 pp. Line-cut of the Vincenti edition, Venice 1603. 30 settings. The canto primo part, in upright format, is reproduced from the Vincenti, 1599 edition. Laid paper. Wrappers, with handsome folder in linen and paper. [item no.1341]


PERI, Jacopo, 1561-1633

Le musiche sopra l’Euridice.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/2. Bologna, 2/ 1995. 4º, 58 pp. Line-cut of the Florence, 1600 edition. Monodies with figured bass accompaniment and choruses for 3-5 voices. Wrappers. (more info... ) [item no.493]


Le musiche sopra l’Euridice. A Facsimile of the Florence, 1600 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, I/28. New York, 1973. 26 x 37 cm, 55 pp. Line-cut of the Florence, 1600 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.492]


Le varie musiche a una, due, e tre voci con alcune spirituali in ultimo. Per cantare nel clavicembolo, e chitarrone, & ancora la maggior parte di esse per sonare semplicemente nel organo.

Performers’ Facsimiles, 235. New York, [2000]. 25 x 35 cm, 32 pp. Line-cut of the Florence, 1609 edition. 20 monodies for 1 to 3 voices and basso continuo. Wrappers. $20 [item no.7797]


PETREIUS, Johann, 1497-1550 [publisher]

Guter seltzamer und künstreicher teutscher Gesang [sonderlich ettliche künstliche Quodlibet, Schlacht und der gleichen mit vier oder fünff Stimmen biß her im Truck nicht gesehen]. [Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 5. Stuttgart, 1997. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 4 partbooks, c.610 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1544 edition. 25 settings a4, for voices with or without instruments. Hardbound in vegetable vellum, with matching slipcase. $174 [item no.7495]


PETRI, Theodoricus, c.1560-c.1630 [publisher]

Piae cantiones. Ecclesiasticae et scholasticae veterum episcoporum, 1582. Theodoricus Petri (Rutha), Nylandensis. Facsimile.

Documenta musicae Fennicae, X. Helsinki, 2/ 1982. 13 x 18 cm, 198, 19 pp. Line-cut of the Greifswald, 1582 edition. A collection of anonymous school and religious songs for one to four voices published in Western Pomerania (now part of Sweden). All of the texts except one are in Latin. Some of the songs date back to the 13th c., others stem from German Lutheran collections. The last number of the collection is the popular Christmas tune “Good King Wenceslas” (Tempus adest floridum). Afterword in Fin-Swe-Eng by Timo Mäkunen. Hardbound with silver lettering. $42 (more info... ) [item no.3118]


PETRUCCI, Ottaviano, 1466-1539 [publisher]

Canti B numero cinquanta. A Facsimile of the Venice, 1501/2 Edition. [Unique copy, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, I/23. New York, 1975. Oblong, 26 x 17 cm, 111 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1501/2 edition. Continuation of Harmonice musices odhecaton A. Laid paper, handsomely bound in white linen. [item no.1342]


Canti C numero cento cinquanta. A Facsimile of the Venice, 1503/4 Edition. [Copy, Österreichische Nationalbibl., Vienna].

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, I/25. New York, 1978. Oblong, 26 x 17 cm, 334 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1503/4 edition. Continuation of Odhecaton A and Canti B. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.1344]


Frottole Libro secondo. Venedig Ottaviano Petrucci 1507 / Frottole libro tertio Venedig Ottaviano Petrucci 1507. [Bischöfliche Bibliothek, Regensburg].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 78. Stuttgart, 2018. Oblong, 24 x 17 cm, 111; 127 pp. Line-cut of Petrucci’s 2nd vand 3rd books of frottole both published in Venice, 1507. Comprising 53 & 61 frottole respectively—the word means “trifles” or “unimportant things”—these two books are a repetorial goldmine, with composers such as Rossinus Mantuanus (R.M.), Francesco d’Ana, Nicolo Patavino, Cara, Tromboncino, Pesenti, Honophrius Antenoreus, Peregrinus Cesena, Antonius Rossetus, and others. Notated in quasi score format (if frottola fits on single page) or choirbook format (if spread over an opening). Hardbound, in decorative paper. $88 [item no.9569]


Harmonice musices odhecaton A. Introduzione di / Introduction by Iain Fenlon. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/95. Bologna, 2003 Oblong, 26 x 17 cm, xxviii, 210 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1501 edition. Contains the earliest part-music printed from type, and produced by a triple impression process (staves, then text, then music); it is also the earliest instance of a complete volume of part-music. Includes works by the most important composers of the day: Issac, Ockeghem, Obrecht, Josquin, Hayne, de la Rue, Compère, Tinctoris, Agricola, and others. Introduction in It-Eng. Wrappers. (more info... ) [item no.8204]


Harmonice musices odhecaton A. A Facsimile of the Venice, 1504 Edition. [Library of Congress, Washington, DC].

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, I/10. New York, 1973. Oblong, 26 x 17 cm, 234 pp. Line-cut of the third edition, Venice, 1504. Laid paper, clothbound. (used copy in excellent condition, white linen boards yellowed) [item no.1346]


Harmonice musices odhecaton A. Edited by Stanley Boorman and Ellen S. Beebe. Introduction by Stanley Boorman. [Library of Congress, Washington, DC].

Critical Facsimiles, 7. New York, 2001. Oblong, 26 x 17 cm, xvii, 234 pp. Line-cut of the third edition, Venice, 1504. “Corrected” facsimile edition reflecting the views of the editors. With critical apparatus listing all errors and inconsistencies. Laid paper, wrappers. (Special sale price eff. 7/15/23: $15) $45 [item no.7949]


Lamentationum Jeremie... liber primus und secundus. Venezia, O. Petrucci 1506. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 45. Stuttgart, 2004. Oblong, 24 x 17 cm, 204 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1506/1506 edition. Two books of lamentations settings a4, notated in choirbook format, by Agricola, Tinctoris, Bernhard Ycart, Marbrianus de Orto, Johannes de Quadris, Tromboncino, Gaspar, Francesco d’Ana, Erasmus Lapicida and others. Hardbound, in decorative paper. $64 (more info... ) [item no.8439]


Laude libro primo, Venezia 1508. Ristampa Anastatica, presentazione di Giulio Cattin e introduzione di Francesco Luisi.

Serie VII, A: Ottaviano Petrucci, 1. Venice, 2001. Oblong, 28 x 17 cm, 83, 130 pp. Halftone reproduction of the Venice, 1508 edition, from the copy preserved at the Biblioteca Capitolare Colombina, Seville. The only anthology of lauda (66) published by Petrucci devoted to a single composer—Innocentius Dammonis, a prior of San Salvador in Venice. This is the "second" edition (the 1506 “first” edition survives incomplete). Introduction in It-Sp-Eng. Hardbound. $100 (more info... ) [item no.8463]


Laude libro secondo (Venezia, O. Petrucci, 1507). RISM 1508(3). [Biblioteca Colombina, Seville].

[Yellow Book Series, 7]. Højbjerg, 2006. Oblong, 23 x 16 cm, 112 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1507 edition. Contains 60 setting for 3 and 4 voices by Bartolomeo Tromboncino and his contemporaries. Wrappers. $58 (more info... ) [item no.8725]


[Masses, 1504, 1503] Alexander Agricola: Misse. Venezia, Petrucci 1504 / Pierre de la Rue: Misse. Venezia 1503. [Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Krakow].

Faksimile-Edition Krakau, [12]. Stuttgart, 2007. Oblong, 23 x 18 cm, 4 partbooks, 192 pp. Line-cut of 2 Petrucci mass volumes, respectively by Agricola (1504) and de la Rue (1503). Contents: Misse Alexandri Agricole—Le serviteur, Je ne demande, Mal heur me bat, Primi toni, Secundi toni; Misse Petri de la Rue—De beata virgine, Puer natus, Sexti ut fa, Lomme arme, Nunquam fue pena maior. Hardbound, in decorative paper, with matching slipcase. $158 [item no.8915]


Motetti A, numero trentatre. Petrucci, Venezia 1502. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 44. Stuttgart, 2004. Oblong, 24 x 17 cm, 112, 22 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1502 edition. Motets a4, choirbook format, by Josquin, Compere, Agricola, Brumel and their contemporaries. In this particular Petrucci print from the CMBM four additional pieces were added in manuscript in 1850. Hardbound, in decorative paper. $62 [item no.8425]


Motetti de passione de cruce de sacramento de beato virgine et huiusmodi. B (Venezia, O. Petrucci, 1503. RISM 1503(1). [British Library, London].

[Yellow Book Series, 6]. Højbjerg, 2006. Oblong, 23 x 16 cm, 144 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1503 edition. Contains 30 motet settings by Josquin and his contemporaries. Wrappers. $72 [item no.8724]


Motetti libro quarto (Venezia, O. Petrucci, 1505). RISM 1505(2). [Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August Bibliothek].

[Yellow Book Series, 10]. Højbjerg, 2011. Oblong, 23 x 16 cm, 4 partbooks, 256 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1505 edition. Contains 55 settings (counting separate movements) for 4 voices by Josquin, Brumel, Obrecht, Mouton and their contemporaries. Wrappers, with slipcase. $130 (more info... ) [item no.9269]


Strambotti, ode, frottole, sonetti, et modo de cantar versi latini e capituli. Libro quarto. RISM 1507(2).

[Yellow Book Series, 3]. Højbjerg, 1991. Oblong, 23 x 16 cm, 112 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1507 edition. Includes 91 Italian secular songs in four parts; choirbook format with mensural notation. Wrappers. $44 (more info... ) [item no.4156]


Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto. Libro primo. Francisci Bossinensis Opus.

Geneva, 1977. Oblong, 22 x 15 cm, 112 pp. Line-cut of the Petrucci edition, Venice, 1509. One of the earliest sources of Italian lute music. Wrappers. $45 [item no.968]


Vernarecci, D. Augusto. Ottaviano de’ Petrucci da Fossombrone, inventore dei tipi mobili metallici fusi della musica nel secolo XV.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, III/35. Bologna, 1971. 8º, 300, 3 illus pp. (Rpt. of Bologna, 1882 edition). First full-length monograph on Petrucci. With listing of text incipits from motet and frottole collections. New chronological list of publications by Umberto Timossi with locations of surviving exemplars (compiled 1970). H. [item no.5332]


PHALÈSE, Pierre, c.1510-1574 [publisher]

[Des chansons, bk. 1] Des chansons reduictz en tablature de lut [à deux, trois, et quatre parties. Avecq une brieve & familiaire introduction pour entendre & apprendre par soy mesmes à iouer dudict lut, liure premier]. Löwen/Jaques Bathen und Reynier Velpen 1545. [Bibliothèque d’étude de conservation Besançon].

Faksimile-Edition Laute, 12. Stuttgart, 2014. Oblong, 18 x 22 cm, 96 pp. Line-cut of the Louvain, 1545 edition, the first edition of this distinguished print. 61 pieces for solo lute in French tablature, including preludes, fantasies, French chansons and Dutch songs. Comparison with the 1547 edition provides wonderful insight how the Phalèse printing house reedited the edition, using the same woodcuts but altering the metal type to create a slightly different format. Hardbound in decorative paper. $32 [item no.9365]


[Des chansons, bk. 1-3] Chansons reduictz en tablature de lut à deux, trois et quatre parties. Livres I-III. Introduction d’Henri Vanhulst.

Geneva, 1984. Oblong, 22 x 15 cm, viii, 242, 8 pp. Line-cut of the 1547, 1546 & 1547 editions. Set of instructions for the lute and a large collection of preludes and fantasias (by Narvaez), galliards and pavanes, as well as transcriptions of chansons by Sermisy, Clemens non Papa, etc. Wrappers. $61 [item no.990]


PILKINGTON, Francis, c.1562-1638

The First Booke of Songs or Ayres 1605. Edited by David Greer.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 34. London, 2/ 1978. 27 x 37 cm, iii, 48 pp. Line-cut. Wrappers. $43 [item no.3020]


The First Booke of Songs or Ayres of 4. Parts: with Tableture for the Lute or Orpherian, with the Violl de Gamba. [Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 95. New York, [1991]. 25 x 35 cm, 46 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1605 edition. Wrappers. $20 [item no.4207]


PORTA, Ercole, 16-17th c.

Ore di recreazione musicale [a una & due voci, per cantare, et sonare nel chittarone, ò altri instrumenti] (1612).

Monumenta Bononiensia, Persicetana, Fototypice Expressa, 1. Bologna, 1977. 21 x 31 cm, 20 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1612 edition. 17 numbers for 1 or 2 voices, with and without accompaniment by lute or keyboard. Hardbound. $21 [item no.5179]


PORTER, Walter, c.1588-1659

Madrigales and Ayres, of Two, Three, Foure and Five Voyces, with the Continued Base, with Toccatos, Sinfonias and Rittornellos to Them, after the Manner of Confort Musique, To be Performed with the Harpesechord, Lutes, Theorbos, Base Violl, Two Violins, or Two Viols.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 35. London, 2/ 1981. 23 x 35 cm, 6 partbooks, ii, c.120 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1632 edition, in the original partbook format. 22 pieces. Wrappers. $85 [item no.3021]


PRAETORIUS, Michael, 1571-1621

Cantiones sacrae [de festis praecipuis totius anni, 5.6.7.10. & 11. vocum]. Ohr, Hamburg 1607. [Stadtbibliothek Augsburg].

Faksimile-Edition Augsburg, 7. Stuttgart, 2000. 15 x 21 cm, 8 partbooks, c.700 pp. Line-cut of the Hamburg, 1607 edition. 47 compositions for 5 to 12 voices, with or without instruments. Hardbound in marbled paper, with matching slipcase. $269 [item no.8245]


Syntagma musicum: Band II, De Organographia. Wolfenbüttel 1619. Faksimile-Nachdruck herausgegeben von Wilibald Gurlitt.

Kassel, 1929 17 x 24 cm, 311, iv pp. Line-cut. This volume, in German, describes the instruments known to the author and includes beautiful woodcut illustrations of them. Hardbound. $95 [item no.8126]


Syntagma musicum: Band II, De Organographia. Wolfenbüttel 1619. Faksimile-Nachdruck herausgegeben von Wilibald Gurlitt.

Documenta Musicologica, I/14. Kassel, 6/ 1985. 17 x 24 cm, 311, iv pp. Line-cut. This volume, in German, describes the instruments known to the author and includes beautiful woodcut illustrations of them. Hardbound. $87 [item no.1889]


Syntagma musicum: Musicae artis analecta / De Organographia / Termini musici. Reprint der Originalausgaben von 1614-15 und 1619. Herausgeben von Arno Forchert.

Kassel, 2001. 8º, 3 vols, 1153 pp. Line-cut. Wrappers. $95 [item no.7972]


RASI, Francesco, 1574-1621

Madrigali di diversi autori posti in musica dal S. Francesco Rasi.

Archivum Musicum: La Cantata Barocca, 25. Florence, 1987. 21 x 30 cm, vi, 23 pp. Line-cut of the Florence, 1610 edition. 17 madrigals in score. Introduction in It by Piero Miori. Wrappers in decorative paper. $31 [item no.1814]


RAVENSCROFT, Thomas, c.1590-c.1633

A Briefe Discourse, 1614, with an Introduction by Ian Payne.

Musical Sources, 22. Kilkenny, 1984. 19 x 25 cm, x, 106 pp. Halftone of the printed edition. Ravenscroft’s famous treatise on harmonic theory illustrated by 24 examples of 4-part pieces notated in mensural notation in choirbook format. With a short note by Robert Spencer. Cloth. $56 [item no.2242]


Deuteromelia: or the Second Part of Musicks Melodie, or Melodius Musicke, of Pleasant Roundelaies, K.H. Mirth, or Freemens Songs, and Such Delightfull Catches. [Library of Congress, Washington, DC].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 227. New York, [1998]. 17 x 24 cm, 46 pp. Line-cut of the William Adams edition, London, 1609. Wrappers. $18 [item no.7610]


Melismata. Musicall Phansies, fitting the Court, Citie, and Countrey Humours, to 3.4. and 5. Voyces. [British Library, London].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 228. New York, [1998]. 17 x 24 cm, 45 pp. Line-cut of the William Stanley edition, London, 1611. Wrappers. $18 [item no.7611]


Pammelia. Musicks Miscellanie, or, Mixed Varietie of Pleasant Boundelayes, and delightfull Catches, of 3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10 Parts in one. [British Library, London].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 226. New York, [1998]. 17 x 24 cm, 55 pp. Line-cut of the William Barley edition, London, 1609. Wrappers. $18 [item no.7612]


RAZZI, Serafino, 16th c. [publisher]

Libro primo delle laudi spirituali da diversi eccell. e divoti autori, antichi e moderni composte. [Civio Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/37. Bologna, 1969. 18 x 25 cm, vi, 306 pp. Line-cut of the Florence, 1563 edition. Includes 87 numbers with mensural notation in choirbook format. Introduction in It by Giuseppe Vecchi. Hardbound. [item no.1347]


REGNART, Jakob, c.1540-1599

Newe kurtzweilige teutsche Lieder / Deutsche Lieder und Motteten, Ms. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm, sign. misc. 122].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 29. Stuttgart, 1997. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 5 partbooks, c.390 pp. Line-cut of two editions, one printed by Gerlach (Nuremberg, 1580), and the other a contemporary manuscript, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm, sign. misc. 122. Contains 16 settings a5 from the printed collection, plus 29 settings a4 and 4 a5 from the manuscript source. Hardbound in vellum paper, with matching slipcase. $152 [item no.7514]


RHAU Georg, 1488-1548 [publisher]

[Officiorum de nativitate, etc.] Cantiones selectissimae quatuor vocum / [Rhau:] Officiorum (ut vocant) de nativitate. Tomus primus / [Rhau:] Postremum vespertini officii opus... Magnificat octo modorum seu tonorum numero XXV.

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 44. Stuttgart, 1997. Oblong, 19 x 15 cm, 4 partbooks, c.580 pp. Line-cut of two Rhau publications (1545 & 1544), together with one by Ulhard (1549). The Ulhard print contains 11 motets by Clemens non papa and the Rhau anthologies include works by Stoltzer, Reneri, Senfl, Gallicus, and Isaac. Hardbound, with slipcase. $162 [item no.7606]


Sacrorum hymnorum liber primus. Wittenberg. G. Rhaw, 1542. RISM 1542(12). [Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek].

[Yellow Book Series, 9]. Højbjerg, 2009. Oblong, 21 x 15 cm, 4 partbooks, 602 pp. Line-cut of the Wittemberg, 1542 edition. Major collection of polyphonic settings of Latin hymns for 4-6 voices. The preface is dedicated to the mayor and council of Joachimstal, and credits Mathesius as having proposed and encouraged the work. Thomas Stoltzer is represent by 39 works. Wrappers, in slipcase. $158 [item no.9107]


Sacrarum hymnorum liber primus. Wittenberg/ Georg Rhau 1542. RISM 1542(12). [Ratsschulebibliothek, Zwickau].

Faksimile-Edition Zwickau, 6. Stuttgart, 2012. Oblong, 19 x 15 cm, 4 partbooks, 550 pp. Line-cut of the Wittemberg, 1542 edition. Major collection of polyphonic settings of Latin hymns for 4-6 voices. The preface is dedicated to the mayor and council of Joachimstal, and credits Mathesius as having proposed and encouraged the work. Thomas Stoltzer is represent by 39 works. Hardbound in decorative paper, with matching slipcase. $164 [item no.9276]


Selectae harmoniae quatuor vocum de passione domini. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 8. Stuttgart, 1996. Oblong, 19 x 15 cm, 4 partbooks, 352 pp. Line-cut of the Wittenberg, 1538. 18 works a4 by Compere, Isaac, Senfel and others. Hardbound, with slipcase. $149 [item no.7281]


Tricinia tum veterum tum recentiorum in arte musica symphonistarum, Latina, Germanica, Brabantica & Gallica, ante hac typis nunct. excusa, observato in disponendo tonorum ordine, quo utentibus sint accommodatiora. RISM 1542(8).

[Yellow Book Series, 4]. Højbjerg, 1991. Oblong, 21 x 15 cm, 3 partbooks, 384 pp. Line-cut of the Wittemberg, 1542 edition. Contains 90 three-part motets and secular pieces by many different composers. Texts are in Latin, French, German and Dutch. Wrappers. $124 [item no.4157]


ROGNONI, Francesco, fl.1608-1624

Selva de varii passaggi per cantare, & sonare. [Bibl. del Conservatorio, Milan].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/153. Bologna, 2/ 1983. 22 x 32 cm, xii, 130 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1620 edition. Francesco Rognoni came from a prominent musical family and was himself a virtuoso of several instruments. Selva contains important expressive devices of the time: portar la voce, accento, tremolo, grupp, esclamatione and intonatio, absolutely essential for performing the music of Monteverdi and his generation. Introduction in It by Guglielmo Barblan. Wrappers. (more info... ) [item no.1282]


RORE, Cipriano de, 1516-1565

[Madrigals, a4, book 1-2, 1557] Il primo libro de madregali a quatro voci; Il secondo libro de madregali a quatro voci. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 30. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 20 cm, 4 partbooks, c.220 pp. Line-cut of the Gardano editions, Venice 1557/1557. Respectively 26 and 23 settings for four voices; this particular exemplar from the Schermar-Bibliothek contains additional ms material entered on the empty pages at the end of each partbook. Hardbound in vegetable vellum, with matching slipcase. $112 [item no.7510]


ROSSETER, Philip, 1568-1623

A Booke of Ayres, 1601.

English Lute Songs, 1597-1632: A Collection of Facsimile Reprints, 36. London, 2/ 1977. 23 x 35 cm, i, 48 pp. Line-cut. Songs by Thomas Campion arranged for voice, lute and bass viol in table-book format. Wrappers. $36 [item no.3022]


A Booke of Ayres, Set Foorth to be Sung to the Lute, Orpherian, and Base Violl.

Performers’ Facsimiles, 119. New York, [1992]. 24 x 36 cm, 48 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1601 edition. Wrappers. $20 [item no.4482]


ROSTHIUS, Nicolaus, c.1542-1622

Fröliche neuwe teutsche Gesäng, so zum Theil geistlich, zum Theil auch sonst kurtzweilig, mit vier, fünff und sechtz Stimmen. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn & Bibliothek der Gesamthochschule, Kassel].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 1. Stuttgart, 1995. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, 6 partbooks, 286 pp. Line-cut of the Christoff Raben edition, Frankfurt, 1583. Four German songs a6, eighteen a5, and eight a4, in mensural notation. Hardbound, in slipcase. $183 [item no.7182]


[Galliards] XXX newer lieblicher Galliardt [mit schönen lustigen Texten]. [Der ander Theil newer lieblicher Galliardt mit schönen lustigen Texten [Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 16. Stuttgart, 2000. 17 x 21 cm, 4 partbooks, c.320 pp. Line-cut of the Altenburg, 1593 edition. 58 German galliards for 4 voices, suitable for voices and instrumentals or instruments alone. Hardbound in marbled paper, with matching slipcase. $146 [item no.7820]


ROTH, Christian, c.1585-c.1640

Couranten-Lustgärtlein, RISM 1625(10). [Stadtbibliothek, Bautzen].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 9. Stuttgart, 1998. Oblong, 20 x 24 cm, 5 partbooks, c.180 pp. Line-cut of Wolff Seiffert edition, Dresden, 1625. 74 pieces for wind or string instruments. Wrappers, with slipcase in marbled paper. $78 [item no.7575]


SCHLICK, Arnolt, c.1455-c.1525

Tabulaturen etlicher Lobgesang. Peter Schöffer / Mainz 1536. RISM 1512(2) [Stadtbibliothek, Leipzig].

Faksimile-Edition Laute, 7. Stuttgart, 2005. Oblong, 21 x 16 cm, 95 pp. Line-cut of the Peter Schöffer edition, Mainz, 1512, the earliest printed collection of keyboard tablature. Includes 12 lute pieces with “zwo stimmen zu zwicken und ein zu singen”, and 3 works for lute with “drei stimmen zu zwicken”. Schöffer’s beautiful work employs triple impression printing (as practiced by Petrucci). Harbound with decorative paper boards. $42 [item no.8587]


SCHÖFFER, Peter [publisher]

Fünnf und sechzig teütscher Lieder [vormals im Truck nie ußgangen]. Straßburg / P. Schöffer und M. Apiarius. [Ratsschulebibliothek, Zwickau].

Faksimile-Edition Zwickau, 1. Stuttgart, 2005. Oblong, 13 x 12 cm, 5 partbooks, c.450 pp. Line-cut of the Schöffer and Apiarius edition, Strasbourg, 1538. SATB + Vagans partbooks. Wonderful 16th-c. German songbook. Composers include: Alderinus (3), Bruck, Arthopius (4), Eckel (3), Grefinger (3), Greitter (5), Hofhaimer, St. Mahu, Senfl (7), Sporer (6), Stoltzer (3), Spengler, Wannenmacher, & Wüst (10). Hardbound in decorative paper. $105 [item no.8722]


SCHÖNSPERGER, Hans, 15-16th c. [publisher]

Enchiriridion [!] geistlicher gesenge und Psalmen fur die Leyen, mit viel andern, denn zuvor gebessert. Sampt der Vesper durch die gancze Woche auff einen iezlichen tag, Metten Complet und Messe. 1528.

Leipzig, 1979. 11 x 15 cm, 176 pp. Line-cut of the Zwickau, 1528 edition. Wrappers. $55 [item no.1750]


SCOTTO, Girolamo, c.1505-1572 [publisher]

[“Cancionero de Uppsala”] Villancicos de diversos autores, a dos, y a tres, y a quatro, y a cinco bozes. RISM 1556(30). [Universitetsbibliotek, Uppsala].

[Yellow Book Series, 1]. Højbjerg, 2/ 1991. 15 x 21 cm, 131 pp. Line-cut of the Venice 1556 edition. Contains 54 villancicos and some instrumental works for 2 to 5 parts notated in choirbook format. Also known as the “Cancionero del Duque de Calabria” or “Cancionero de Uppsala”. Wrappers. $43 (more info... ) [item no.1678]


SELICH, Daniel, 1581-1626

[Concerti, voices/instruments] Opus novum. [Geistlicher Lateinisch und Teutscher Concerten und Psalmen Dauids mit II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. IIX. IX. X. XI. XII. & c. Stimmen Nebenst dem Basso Continuo vor die Orgel Lauten Chitaron etc. Also daß dieselbe nicht allein in Fuerst: Capellen sondern auch in andern wolbestalten Stadtkirchen nach beliebung fueglich koennen gebraucht vnd Musiciret werden]. Hamburg/ Michael Hering 1625. [Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 64. Stuttgart, 2013. 22 x 32 cm, 9 partbooks, c.306 pp. Line-cut of the Hamburg, 1625 edition. 24 sacred concertos. Wrappers, with slipcase in decorative paper. $205 [item no.9319]


SOTO, Francesco, 1539-1619

[Laudi, 1591] Il quarto libro delle laudi a tre et quatro voci (1591).

Monumenta Romana, Fototypice Expressa, 4. Bologna, 1971. 17 x 25 cm, 210 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1591 edition. Contains over 60 compositions, conveniently notated for 3 or 4 voices in choirbook format. Hardbound. $46 [item no.1350]


[Laudi spirituali, 1589] Libro delle laudi spirituali (1589).

Monumenta Romana, Fototypice Expressa, 3. Bologna, 1978. 17 x 24 cm, xvii, 122 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1589 edition. 42 musical settings a3 in choirbook format, plus numerous additional texts that can be sung with the given music. Introduction, bibliography & list of compositions by Maria Gabriella Sartini. Wrappers. $43 [item no.4051]


SPECHSHART, Hugo, c.1285-1359

Flores musicae [omnis cantus Gregoriani]. [Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Ulm, 37. Stuttgart, 2005. 15 x 22 cm, 168 pp + 1 foldout. Color reproduction of the Strasbourg, 1488 edition. Although written in 1332, this important padagogicial work was not published until 1488. The treatise, partly in verse, comprises 4 chapters covering solmization, the monochord, intervals and the ecclesiastical modes; the division proposed for the monochord is the first based on the chromatic scale. The marvelous woodblocks include a full-page scene with men forging, a Guidonian hand, a foldout of the monochord and numerous musical examples in Hufnagel notation. Harbound. $98 (more info... ) [item no.8554]


STADEN, Johann, 1581-1634

Hertzens-Trosts Musica geistlicher Meditationen mit einer Stim. neben dem Basso Continuo, für einen Org. Theorb. oder Lautenisten. [Stadtbibliothek, Nuremberg, Will II, 436a].

Faksimile-Edition Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg, 2. Stuttgart, 1998. 21 x 32 cm, 13 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1630 edition, 12 strophic songs for tenor/cantus with basso continuo accompaniment (organ/theorbo/lute), concluding with a fugue a3 at the unison. This exemplar includes a page of organ tablature entered in manuscript on the last page. Hardbound in marbled paper. $23 [item no.7660]


Venus-Kräntzlein [newer musicalischer Gesäng und Lieder]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 5. Stuttgart, 1996. 15 x 19 cm, 4 partbooks, 112 pp. Line-cut of the Jena, 1610 edition. 32 songs a4, 18 with texts and 14 without. Wrappers, with handsome slipcase in marbled paper. $64 [item no.7303]


Venus-Kräntzlein [newer musicalischer Gesäng und Lieder]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 5. Stuttgart, 1996. 15 x 19 cm, 4 partbooks, 112 pp. Line-cut of the Jena, 1610 edition. 32 songs a4, 18 with texts and 14 without. Wrappers. $59 [item no.7304]


STARTER, Jan Janszoon, 16-17th c.

Friesche Lust-Hof, geplannt met verscheyde stichtelyke Minne-Liedekens, Gedichten, Boertige Kluchten. Door Ian Iansz. Starter. SS. LL. ST. Met schoone kopere figueren verçierd; ende by alle onbekende vorsen, de Noten, ofte Musyc gevoeght; Door Mr. Iaques Vredeman, Musyck-Mr. der Stadt Leeuwarden.

Amsterdam, 1974. Oblong, 20 x 16 cm, iii, 227 pp. Line-cut of the Paulus van Ravesteyn edition, Amsterdam 1621. Contains the most popular tunes of the day, notated in mensural notation. Preface in Dut by L. Strengholt. Cloth. $40 [item no.3467]


SUSATO, Tylman, c.1500-c.1563 [publisher]

Het ierste musyck boexken. Introduction: Eugeen Schreurs. [Bibl. Jagiellońska, Krakow].

Facsimile Series, I/B.20. Peer, 1989. Oblong, 20 x 15 cm, xii, 4 partbooks, c.128 pp. Line-cut of the Antwerp, 1551 edition. Polyphonic collection of happy, melancholic, ironic and narrative love songs in Dutch. To be sung and played on all kinds of instruments. Wrappers, in slipcase. $46 [item no.2805]


THOMISSØN, Hans, 16th c. [compiler]

Den danske Psalmebog, met mange christelige Psalmer, ordentlig tilsammenset, formeret oc forbedret. Aff Hans Thomissøn. Prentet i Kiøbenhaffn aff Laurentz Benedicht.

Copenhagen, 1933. 10 x 15 cm, 458, v pp. Beautiful line-cut of the earliest Danish liturgical songbook with melodies, published in Copenhagen, 1569. Afterword in Danish by P. Severinsen. Presentation binding in full leather with rich tooling and gold leaf lettering. Very rare. $450 [item no.1915]


Den danske Psalmebog, met mange christelige Psalmer, ordentlig tilsammenset, formeret oc forbedret. [Afterword:] Hans Thomissøns Salmebog 1569-1676. En almen orientering og en speciel bibiografi af Erik Dal.

Copenhagen, 1968. 11 x 15 cm, 458, 79 pp. Line-cut of the Copenhagen, 1569 edition. (Reprint of the Copenhagen, 1933 edition, with added afterword in Danish by Erik Dal). Beautiful binding in vellum paper with gold borders. $150 [item no.4685]


TORNIOLI, Marcantonio, b.?-c.1617

Canzonette spirituali a tre voci. [British Library, London].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 30. Stuttgart, 1999. 16 x 22 cm, 3 partbooks, 72 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1607 edition. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $49 [item no.7743]


TROMBONCINO, Bartolomeo, 15-16th c.

[Frottole, voice & lute], in Frottole di B. Tromboncino e M. Cara “Per cantar et sonar col lauto”. Saggio critico e scelta di trascrizioni [a cura di] Francesco Luisi.

Studi e Testi, 3. Rome, 1987. 8º, 149 pp. Study, transcription, and line-cut facsimile of 10 frottole (8 by Tromboncino and 2 by Cara) from a 1520 Gardano print. Contents: Chi se pò slegar d’amore; Se glill dico, che dirà; Almen vedesti et cor mio; Mia ventura al venir se fa piú tarda; Ogni mal d’amor procede; Voi, gentil’ alme accese; Forse è ver, forsi che no; Monchos son d’amor perdidos; Se la lumacha che s’abrusa iin foco; Se amor non è, ch’è dunque quel ch’io sento. Wrappers. $26 [item no.7289]


ULHARD, Philipp, 16th c. [publisher]

Cantiones selectissimae quatuor vocum / [Rhau:] Officiorum (ut vocant) de nativitate. Tomus primus / [Rhau:] Postremum vespertini officii opus... Magnificat octo modorum seu tonorum numero XXV.

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 44. Stuttgart, 1997. Oblong, 19 x 15 cm, 4 partbooks, c.580 pp. Line-cut of the 1549 edition. 11 motets by Clemens non papa. Bound together with two important sacred anthologies by Georg Rhau with works by Stoltzer, Reneri, Senfl, Gallicus, Dietrich, Finck, and Isaac, Hardbound, with slipcase. $182 [item no.7606]


VALENTE, Antonio, c.1520-d.?

Versi spirituali sopra tutte le note con diversi canoni spartiti per sonar negli organi, messe vespere, et altri officii divini.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/43. Bologna, 1970. 18 x 25 cm, 111 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1580 edition. Canons a4 in score format. Laid paper. Hardbound. $47 [item no.944]


VALERIUS, Adriaen, 1575-1625

Neder-Landtsche Gedenck-Clanck. Kortelick openbarende de voornemste geschiedenissen van de seventhien Neder-Landsche Provintien, ’t sedert den aenvang der Inlandsche beroerten ende troublen, to den Iare 1625.

[Facsimiles of Dutch Songbooks, 9]. Amsterdam, 1968. Oblong, 26 x 20 cm, 306, i pp. Line-cut of the Haarlem, 1626 edition. 76 popular songs for one and two voices with accompaniments in lute tablature. National songs of the Netherlands. Handsome binding in leatherette with generous gold stamping and top edge gilt. [item no.1148]


Neder-Landtsche Gedenck-Clanck. A Facsimile of the Haarlem, 1626 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/63. New York, 1974. Oblong, 29 x 21 cm, 306 pp. Line-cut of the Haarlem, 1626 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.1895]


Nederlandtsche Gedenck-Clanck. Herdrukt naar de oorspronkeljke uitgaaf von 1626 ingeleid en voorzein van biografische, taalkundige. Historische en musicologische aanteekenigen door Dr. P.J. Meertens, Prof. Dr. N.B. Tenhaeff en Mevr. A. Komter-Kuipers. Bandversiering van Georg Rueter. Derde Druk.

Amsterdam-Antwerp, 1947. Oblong, 29 x 21 cm, lxxii, 288 pp. New edition of the text with line-cut reproductions of all musical examples from the Haarlem, 1626 edition. Full musicological commentary in Dutch. Hardbound. Rare. $135 [item no.7561]


VECCHI, Orazio, 1550-1605

[& Gemignani Capi Lupi] Canzonette mit dreyen Stimmen Horatii Vecchi unnd Gemignani Capi Lupi [zuvor mit Italianischen Texten jetzo aber zu besserm mit Teutschen Texten belegt und inn Truck gegeben durch Valentin Haußmann]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtsbibl., Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 32. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 20 cm, 3 partbooks, c.129 pp. Line-cut of the Paulus Kauffmann edition, Nuremberg, 1606. 34 secular settings a3, with German texts, for voices with or without instruments. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $61 [item no.7490]


VECCHI, Orfeo, c.1552-1603

[Masses, 4 voices, book 1] Missarum quatuor vocibus, liber primus, a cura di Ottavio Beretta.

Quaderni di San Maurizio, 2 – La Musica a Milano. Lucca, 1991. 16 x 21 cm & 4˚, 4 partbooks, 96, 122 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1597 edition, together with a new beautifully prepared practical edition. Four mass settings. Preface in It-Eng. Wrappers. $54 [item no.4202]


VEHE, Michael, c.1480-1539

Ein new Gesangbüchlin geistlicher Lieder. Faksimile-Druck der ersten Ausgabe Leipzig 1537. Herausgegeben und mit einem Geleitwort versehen von Walther Lipphardt.

Beiträge zur Mittelrheinischen Musikgeschichte, 11. Mainz, 1970. 8º, 35, 86 pp. Line-cut of the Leipzig, 1537 edition. The first Catholic Gesangbuch (published in Lutheran Saxony) containing liturgical monophony with German text. 52 songs in all, a portion of them taken from Lutheran songbooks. Introduction in Ger. Critical commentary. Wrappers. $36 [item no.1306]


VÉRARD, Antoine, 15-16th c. [publisher]

Le jardin de plaisance et fleure de rethorique. I: Reproduction en fac-similé de l’édition publiée par Antoine Vérard vers 1501; II: Introduction et notes [par] E. Droz et A. Piaget.

Société des Anciens Textes Français, 59. Geneva, 1976. 21 x 28 cm, 2 vols, 529, 340 pp. (Rpt. of Paris, 1910-25 edition). Superb line-cut of the most important anthology of poetry from the Dufay period. (no music). Hardbound. $200 [item no.2951]


VEROVIO, Simon, fl.1575-1608

Lodi della musica a tre voci.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/38b. Bologna, 1971. 22 x 32 cm, 38 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1595 edition. 10 numbers in mensural notation, keyboard score, and Italian lute tablature. Hardbound. [item no.1288]


VICTORIA, Tomás Luis, 1548-1611

Officium defunctorum sex vocibus in obitu et obseqviis Sacræ Imperatricis; Estudio y transcripción: Samuel Rubio.

Avila, 2000. 28 x 41 cm, 2 vols, i, 60, 103 pp. Full-color facsimile, in the original format, of the 1605, Madrid edition. This beautiful and rare print—only four exemplars survive—is the last known work of Victoria (composed in 1603) and was printed by the “Imprenta Real de Madrid” in large, easy-to-read choirbook format. The exemplar used for this edition, from the archives of the Catedral de Segorbe, contains a few annotations in manuscript, showing that it was actually used for performance. Together with introduction in Spanish and modern transcription. Limited edition of 2000 copies, handsomely bound in burgundy linen with gold lettering. $233 (more info... ) [item no.8608]


VICTORINUS, Georg, b.?-1631

Siren coelestis centum harmoniarum [duarum, trium et quatuor vocum] München, Berg Wwe. 1622.

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 48. Stuttgart, 2005. 15 x 20 cm, 4 partbooks, c.550 pp. Line-cut of the Berg (widow) edition, Munich, 1622, edited by the composer Georg Victorinus. 100 setting altogether, 27 a2, 65 a3, and 7 a4. Composers include Victorinus himself (5), and numerous others, among them Finet, Cornazzani, Ursini, Cifra, Agazzari, Tomasi, Banchieri, Viadani, Aichmiller, Mezzogori, & Rudolph de Lasso. It also includes 2 works by Catterina Assandra. Hardbound, in decorative paper with slipcase. $115 [item no.8614]


VINCENTI, Alessandro, 17th c. [publisher]

Seconda raccolta de sacri canti a una, due, tre, e quattro voci de diversi eccellentissimi autori. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 20. Stuttgart, 1998. 16 x 22 cm, 5 partbooks, 266 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1624 edition. Sacred vocal settings with basso continuo, 8 a1, 26 a2, 7 a3 and 10 a4. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $78 [item no.7657]


WANNENMACHER (Vannius), Johannes, c.1485-1551

Bicinia sive duo germanica [ad aequales. Tütsche Psalmen unnd andre Lieder durch Joannum Vannium mit zweyen Stimmen zusammen gsetzt]. Bern: Apiarius, 1533. RISM 1553(11).

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 21. Stuttgart, 1998. Oblong, 18 x 15 cm, 2 partbooks, 80 pp. Line-cut of the Bern, 1533 edition. 16 settings of psalms for two equal voices/instruments. Wrappers in handsome portfolio in marbled paper. $43 [item no.7703]


WEELKES, Thomas, c.1576-1623

Madrigals to 3.4.5. & 6. Voyces.

Performers’ Facsimiles, 90. New York, [1990]. 19 x 25 cm, 6 partbooks, c.120 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1597 edition. Wrappers, with folder. $45 [item no.3959]


Madrigals of 5. and 6. Parts, Apt for the Viols and Voices. [British Library, London].

Performers’ Facsimiles, 190. New York, [1998]. 19 x 25 cm, 6 partbooks, c.140 pp. Line-cut of the London, 1600 edition. Wrappers, with folder. $48 [item no.7655]


WERRECORE, Mathias (M. Fiamengo), 15-16th c.

La bataglia taliana con alcune villotte piacevole nouvamente con ogni diligentia sftampate et corrette. Introduction: Ignace Bossuyt. [Herog August Bibl., Wolfenbüttel].

Facsimile Series, I/B.12. Peer, 1987. Oblong, 21 x 14 cm, 4 partbooks, 13, 108 pp. Line-cut of the Gardano, 1549 edition. Pieces for four voices by the Flemish composer Werrecore, including “La bataglia taliana”, celebrating the defeat of the French in the battle of Pavia in 1525. Introduction in Eng. Wrappers with slipcover. $38 [item no.1583]


WIDMANN, Erasmus, 1572-1634

Musicalischer Tugendspiegel [gantz newer Gesäng mit schönen historischen und poetischen Texten sehr nutzlich zu lesen und lieblich zu singen]. [[Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 6. Stuttgart, 1996. 15 x 19 cm, 5 partbooks, 170 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1613 edition. 40 secular settings a4 & 5 suitable for voices and instruments. Wrappers, with handsome slipcase in marbled paper. $69 [item no.7305]


WITTEL, Martin, 16-17th c. [publisher]

Fragen und Satzreden von der Haserey, 1593; Secundus cursus in Hasione, 1592; Sätze von der Lefferey, 1593; Rennplatz der Haasen mit der Leimstangen, 1594. [Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Ulm, 23. Stuttgart, 1999. 15 x 20 cm, 112 pp. Line-cut of the 1592-1593 editions. Comic texts on rabbits, rabbit hunting, etc., with occasional music and very humorous woodcuts. Even the publishing credits (“unter Herrn Fabian Leimstenler von Hasfeld” or “Narraverunt & Kelberi facti sunt”) are tongue-and-cheek. Hardbound. $29 [item no.7758]


ZANGIUS, Nikolaus, c.1570-c.1618

[Schöne newe außerlesene] weltliche Lieder [mit drey Stimmen auff ein newe Art und Manier lustig zu singen unnd auff allerley Instrumenten zugebrauchen, zuvor nie in Druck außgangen]. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibl., Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 33. Stuttgart, 1997. 15 x 20 cm, 3 partbooks, c.324 pp. Line-cut of the Martin Guthen edition, Berlin, 1617. 56 secular settings a3, for voices with or without instruments. Wrappers, with portfolio in marbled paper. $122 [item no.7492]


ZUCHINI, Gregorio, c.1540-1615

Promptuarium harmonicum. Venidig, Iacob Vincenti 1616. [Bischöfliche Bibliothek, Regensburg].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 72. Stuttgart, 2016. 19 x 25 cm, 5 partbooks, 288 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1616 edition partbook edition (after the sole surviving copy). 5-voice settings consisting of 2 masses, 12 vespers, 6 motets, & 7 canzoni per sonare with titles “La Barbissona”, “La Massa”, La Montignana”, La Restella”, “La Terhaga”, “La Giordana”, “La Grilla” (apparently nicknames), suitable for strings/winds. Wrappers, with portfolio in decorative paper. $69 [item no.9524]


ZWICK, Johannes, c.1496-1542 [compiler]

Nüw Gsangbüchle von vil schönen Psalmen und geistlichen Liedern. Getruckt zu Zürych by Christoffel Froschouer 1540.

Zürich, 1946. 12 x 17 cm, 262, iii pp. Line-cut of the printed edition of a famous songbook of religious music from the Reformation period. Afterword in Ger by Jean Hotz. Limited numbered edition of 1000 copies. Hardbound. $59 [item no.1310]


COMPOSITE & MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES

[Ambras Castle (Innsbruck), Archiv] Imperial Music at Ambras Castle Written under the Emperors Charles V. and Ferdinand I. Edited by Walter Salmen.

Innsbruck, 1992. Oblong, 35 x 25 cm, 96 pp. Superb halftone of the anonymous motet “Martia terque quater” (composed for the coronation of Emperor Charles V around 1530) and the Senfl 4-part song “Aus guetem Grund”. The notation of these works is a unique example of Renaissance art: their mensural notation is actually stitched onto linen partbooks, preserved now at the castle of Ambras near Innsbruck. Includes 8 full-color plates of the embroidered title “page”. Commentary in Ger-Eng-Sp, together with new transcription. Linen. $156 [item no.4346]


[“Andernacher Cäcilienbruderschaft”] Das Andernacher Gesangbuch (Köln 1608). Faksimiledruck mit einem Nachwort von Michael Härting.

Denkmäler Rheinischer Musik, 13. Düsseldorf, 1970. 21 x 30 cm, 164, xiii pp. Line-cut in reduced format, 2 openings per page. This Catholic songbook brought out by the Cäcilien Fraternität at Andernach contains 184 lieder with German and Latin texts; over half of them were new. Wrappers. $27 [item no.2658]


[Augsburg, Staats- & Stadtbibliothek, CIM 43 (= MS 18)] Das Augsburger Liederbuch. [Augsburg, Staats- & Stadtsbibliothek, CIM 43 (2º Cod 142a) (= MS 18)].

Faksimile-Edition Augsburg, 3. Stuttgart, 1997. 23 x 33 cm, 158 pp. Line-cut of an early 16th c. German ms in choirbook format containing motets and secular works. The ms contains only six composer attributions, four by Josquin and two by Agricola, however among the anonymous works are another two by Josquin and works by Senfl, Grefinger, Finck, and Hofhaimer. In general only text incipits are given. Hardbound in vellum paper. $126 [item no.7529]


[Berlin, Staatsbibl. der SPKB, 40613] Locheimer-Liederbuch und Fundamentum organisandi des Conrad Paumann. In Faksimiledruck herausgegeben von Konrad Ameln.

Berlin, 1925. 18 x 24 cm, 96, xxv pp. Superb 4-color collotype of one of the most celebrated German-produced chansonniers of the 15th c., bound together with an organ collection notated in tablature. 47 anonymous pieces with music, 44 of them are lieder: 35 a1, 2 a2, and 7 a3. Historical introduction, tables, and illustrations of the watermarks. Edition of 700 in half vellum. Rare. $300 [item no.1414]


[Bologna, Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica, Cod. Q15] Bologna Q15: The Making and Remaking of a Musical Manuscript. Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition by Margaret Bent. Volume I: Introductory Study. Volume II: Facsimile.

Ars Nova, Nuova Seria, 2. Lucca, 2008. 24.5 x 32.5 cm. 2 vols, 400, 686 pp. This manuscript is the largest international anthology of polyphonic music of the early 15th century. It was compiled in Padua in the early 1420s (stage I) and Vicenza in the early 1430s (stages II-III), all copied by a single scribe. The three illuminations are an unusual luxury for a musical manuscript at this period. It was acquired by Padre Martini in 1757 and is a major treasure of his library in Bologna. About half of its 323 compositions are unique; some others are shared with and complemented by the slightly younger Veneto manuscripts Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria 2216 and Oxford, Canon. misc. 213. It is the most important source for the works of Zacara and Ciconia and for the early works of Guillaume Du Fay (with 78 works, many of them unica). About 50 composers are represented, including native Italians, and composers from the north who were sought after and made their careers in Italy. It is primarily a collection of mass movements (mostly Glorias and Credos, and a few cycles) and motets. Du Fay's Missa Sancti Jacobi was assembled as a cycle only here, and can now be linked with the humanist circle around the Venetian patrician bishop Pietro Emiliani of Vicenza, in which Q15 was compiled. The 109 motets include compositions in honour of doges, bishops and noblemen. 19 French songs were added at the end of stage I, and 11 laude at stage III. Other late additions are the cycle of 24 hymns (most by Du Fay), 9 Magnificats and 3 sequences. For the first time, the complex codicological history of this manuscript is unravelled and the importance of its many revisions examined. The first compilation was originally much larger; the manuscript now embodies two overlapping, superimposed anthologies. Margaret Bent tells this story in her extensive introductory study, which also includes comprehensive indexes and catalogues. She spells out some of the conclusions to be drawn from the partial destruction of the manuscript by its own creator, a unique and extraordinary testimony to changing taste and contemporary reception. Deluxe limited edition, supplied with slipcase. $1450 (more info... ) [item no.8908]


[Bologna, Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica, Q18] Bologna Q18, early 16th c. Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale (olim 143). Introduction: Susan Forscher Weiss.

Facsimile Editions of Prints and Manuscripts, [12]. Peer, 1998. Oblong, 24 x 18 cm, 48, 187 pp. Line-cut of an early 16th-c. chansonnier created in Bologna, with works by Isaac, Josquin, Compère, Tromboncino and others. 93 works (with text incipits but no text underlay), suitable for vocal and or various instrumental combinations. Cloth. $72 [item no.7799]


[Bologna, Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica, Q19] Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS. Q19 (“The Rusconi Codex”). Introduction by Jessie Ann Owens.

Renaissance Music in Facsimile, 1. New York, 1988. 4º, xvi, 410 pp. Halftone. Anthology of works by Festa, Mouton, and other Franco-Flemish and Italian composers of the early 16th c. Italian provenance. Cloth. $130 [item no.2295]


[Bologna, Bibl. Univ., 2216] Il codice musicale 2216 della Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna a cura di F. Alberto Gallo. Seconda parte.

Monumenta Lyrica Medii Aevi Italica, III/3.2. Bologna, 1970. 22 x 27 cm, 109 pp. Commentary volume to the now out-of-print facsimile edition. Wrappers. $35 [item no.1432]


Brevia musicae rudimenta latino belgicae ex prolixioribus musicorum praeceptis excerpta / [D.A. Valcoogh:] Een Reghel der duytsche Schoolmeesters (Musical Part). With an Introduction by F.R. Noske.

Early Music Theory in the Low Countries, 3. Buren, 1973. 16 x 20 cm, v, 36 pp. Line-cut of the Leiden, 1605 and Amsterdam, 1591 editions. Two complementary music treatises intended for young people who attended primary and secondary schools in the Northern Netherlands during the years around 1600. Wrappers. $42 [item no.3581]


[Brussels, Bibl. Royale Albert I, 215-16] A Choirbook for the Seven Sorrows / Een Koorboek voor de Zeven Smarten. Royal Library of Belgium / Koninklije Bibliothek van België MS 215-16. Facsimile. Study / Studie: Emily Thelen.

Leuven Library of Music in Facsimile, 2. Antwerpen, 2019. 32 x 43 cm, 2 vols, 98, 102 pp Full size facsimile and study of Brussel MS 215-16, one of only two anthologies with masses, motets and office plainchant that was prepared for actual use at sacred services in the Low Countries, in this case for some chapel in Brussels. It is dedicated to the Seven Sorrows of Mary and has two masses specifically for the chapel. This sumptuous parchment choirbook comes from the workshop of Petrus Alamire and features the music De la Rue, Josquin, Pipelare and anonymous composers. The present publication offers a full color reproduction of the MS accompanied by a scholarly commentary in Eng/Fla. Hardbound, with paper boards that reproduce the original binding. $133 (more info... ) [item no.9586]


[Brussels, Bibl. Royale Albert I, 5557] Choirbook of the Burgundian Court Chapel. B-Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, Ms. 5557. Introduction: R.C. Wegman.

Facsimile Series, I/A.5. Peer, 1989. 24 x 32 cm, viii, 272 pp. Halftone of the choirbook written and used by the Burgundian Court Chapel in Bruges. The 12 gatherings date from 1462-66 and 1480. Contains 11 masses, 3 magnificats, 1 hymn and 7 motets by Busnois, Dufay, Frye, Ockeghem and others. Cloth. $112 (more info... ) [item no.2801]


[Brussels, Bibl. Royale Albert I, 9085] Basses danses dites de Marguerite d’Autriche, Ms. 9085–aus dem Besitz der Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, Bruxelles. Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat der Handschrift.

Codices Selecti, 87. Graz, 1987. Oblong, 21 x 13 cm, 2 vols, 76, 56 pp. Beautiful 4- and 5-color facsimile in the original format of a ms once belonging to Marguerite of Austria. This magnificent ms, transmitting mostly basses danses from the Dufay-Binchois period, features black pages with notes and decorations in gold and silver. Separate historical commentary in Fr-Eng by Claude Thiry, Victor Gavenda and Claudine Lemaire. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Luxurious binding in quarter leather and wooden coverboards. Handsome case in vellum paper. $917 (more info... ) [item no.2312]


[Brussels, Royal Libray, VI 18.613 C] Margaret of Austria’s basse danse Manuscript. Facsimile and Study Edited by Grantley McDonald.

Leuven Library of Music in Facsimile, 6. Antwerpen, 2022. 53.5 x 51 cm,18 x 25 cm, 2 vols, 52; 583 pp. Facsimile and study. Margaret of Austria’s basse danse manuscript, written in gold and silver ink on black parchment, is an exquisite relic of the artistic culture of the Habsburg-Burgundian court around 1500. This study examines the manuscript’s place within the culture of court dance, its place within Margaret’s library, its relationship to a contemporary printed source, the choreography and the music of the dances that it contains, and the challenges facing conservators given the book’s fragile condition. Commentary by Adam Bregman, Adam Knight Gilbert, Grantley McDonald, Dagmar Eichberger, Chriista Hofmannn and Tatiana Gersten. $379 (more info... ) [item no.9728]


[Brussels, Bibl. Royale Albert I, ii 270] Brussel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS II 270. Collectie Middelnederlandse en Latijnse Geestelijke Liedern / Collection of Middle Dutch and Latin Sacred Songs, ca.1500. Ediderunt Brundo Bouckaert, Eugeen Schreurs, Jeske van Dongen, Andries Welkenhuysen, Jeanne de Landtsheer.

Monumenta Flandriae Musica, 7. Peer, 2005. 4º, xlv, 132, 40 pp. New critical edition, with full-color facsimile. 29 Middle Dutch and Latin songs, for 2, 3 and 4 voices. Hardbound (facsimile vol. in wrappers). $95 [item no.6557]


[Brussels, Bibl. Royale Albert I, iv 90] Cancionero de Juana I de Castilla. Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Bruselas. Siglo XVI. [commentary title:] Cancionero de Juana la Loca. La música en la corte de Felipe el Hermoso y Juana i de Castilla / Song Book of Joan the Mad / Das Liederbuch Johannas der Wahnsinnigen.

Valencia, 2006. Oblong, 11 x 9 cm, 56, 359 pp, 1 audio CD. This lovely Burgundian chansonnier, one of the smallest complete collections of the time, created around 1511, consists of 56 pages of polyphonic music with Latin, French and Flemish texts by leading Netherlandish composers. Its 54 miniatures, made up of delightful little dramatic scenes, botanical designs, or emblema in the style of the Ghent-Bruges school of book illumination, have been linked to the atelier of the prestigious artist Alexander Bening (father of Simon Bening). Although the songbook was originally comprised of 4 separate partbooks—superius, alto, tenor, bassus—the bassus partbook is now lost, and the altus (=Bibl. Royal Albert I, ms. iv 1274 ) and tenor (=Bibl. Tournai, ms. 94) are incomplete and less well preserved. The surviving superius part, reproduced for this deluxe facsimile edition, still has its early 16th-c. leather binding decorated with animal figures and vines; it is the work of Lodovicus Bloc, a master bookbinder active in Bruges 1484-1529, credited with binding numerous books for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Contents: 22 songs withoutattributions; concordances allow us positive identification of most of the composers—Compère (4), Josquin (4), Obrecht, Ockeghem, de la Rue, Agricola, Barbireau, Busnois, Japart, Pipelare, Hayne van Ghizighem (2), Ninot le Petit, and Isaac. Musicological commentary by Honey Meconi, modern transcriptions by Miguel Ángel Picó, and an essay on the making of a codex by José Aspas Romano (texts in Sp-Eng-Ger). Limited edition of 999 copies, bound in full leather with gold, tooling, and leather ties, after the original. Please call for special OMI price. (more info... ) [item no.8523]


[Brussels, Bibl. Royale Albert I, iv 922] Occo Codex (Brussels, Royal Library Albert I, MS. iv. 922). Facsimile Edition.

Facsimilia Musica Neerlandica, I. Buren, 1979. 25 x 36 cm, xxix, 304 pp. Halftone of an early 16th-c. Dutch choirbook (in ms), discovered in 1972. One of the calligraphic masterpieces of the workshop of Petrus Alamire, the most important music copyist of the Netherlands around 1500. Historical introduction by Bernard Huys. Buckram. $246 [item no.1365]


[Brussels, Royal Libray, VI 18.613 C] A Canon for Mary of Hungary Facsimile. Facsimile and Study Edited by Eric Jas.

Leuven Library of Music in Facsimile, 5. Antwerpen, 2021. 53.5 x 51 cm, 2 vols, 9; 128 pp. Facsimile and study. In 1548, the chapelmaster of the Brussels Burgundian court, Benedictus Appenzeller 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. $276 (more info... ) [item no.9727]


Cambrai, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms.11. Introduction: Liane Curtis.

Facsimile Series, I/A.9. Peer, 1992. 21 x 31 cm, 120 pp. 2-color halftone. Copied 1442-1445 by Simon Mellet (one of the dominant figures of the scriptorum at the Cambrai cathedral), this important ms contains six compositions by Dufay, one by Benet, Power or Dunstable, five by Binchois, one by Franchois(?) and five anonymous works. Hardbound. $147 (more info... ) [item no.4190]


[Cambrai, Mediathèque Municipale, MSS 125-128] Der Chansonnier von Zeghere van Male.

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 86. Stuttgart, 2018. Oblong, 28 x 20 cm, 4 partbooks, 1224 pp, 40 pp. The Songbook of Zeghere van Male, also known by its call number MS 125-128 in Cambrai's Mediathèque Municipale, consists of four complementary part-books: Superius, Altus, Tenor, & Bass. The chansonnier became part of this public collection after the French Revolution, beforehand it was in the Bibliothèque de Saint-Sépulcre, also in Cambrai.The MS contains 229 compositions, extremely varied, some of them present only in this source. The special aspect of this manuscript is its marriage of music, art and culture: drawings adorn each folio. Executed by quill and with lively colors the drawings describe realistic scenes of daily life, leisurely activities, and include animals and monstrous creatures, obscene depictions and vegetal decorations. With mixed elements inherited from the Middle-Ages, the Antiquity and the vogue of the grotesque, they are a testimony of the prevailing taste in Flemish civil society in the first half of the 16th century. Commentary Ger-Fr-Eng by Fabien Laforge. Hardbound with decorative paper boards and slipcase. $638 (more info... ) [item no.9571]


Cambridge, Magdalen College, Pepys 1760.

Renaissance Music in Facsimile, 2. New York, 1987. 200 pp. Halftone. Repertoire of motets and French secular music by Fevin, Mouton, Prioris and others intended for the French Royal Court. Cloth. $95 [item no.2279]


[Cambridge, University Library, add. 5943 & Oxford University, Bodleian Library,Douce 381] Two Fifteenth-Century Song Books. Introduced by Richard Rastall. Cambridge University Library Add. MS 5943 Made in Facsimile by Leslie Hewitt.

Musical Sources, 27. Aberystwyth, 1990. 17 x 25 cm, xxix, 34 pp. Improved halftone of Cambridge add. 5943 (re-issue of Musical Sources, 1), together with Bodleian Douce 381, a closedly related source. 26 compositions for two and three voices dating from c.1400-1420. Includes 4 beta-radiograms of watermarks. New introduction. Hardbound. $85 [item no.2893]


Dijon Bibliothèque Publique, Manuscrit 517. With an Introduction by Dragan Plamenac.

Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts, 12. New York, 1971. 13 x 18 cm, 12, 398 pp. Halftone of a c.1460 Burgundian chansonnier. Rich repository of the chansons of Busnois, Ockeghem, and their contemporaries. Introduction in Ger-Eng. $141 (more info... ) [item no.1399]


The Dow Partbooks, Christ Church, Oxford, MSS 984-988. Facsimile Edition. Introductory Study by John Milsom.

Oxford, 2010. Oblong, 19.4 x 14.2 cm, 5 partbooks, c.954 pp + commentary. A full-color facsimile edition of Oxford, Christ Church, MSS 984-988, written in the beautiful calligraphic hand of Robert Dow, a 16th-c. fellow of All Souls, Oxford. These partbooks—discantus, medius, altus, tenor, bassus—are a major source of music by William Byrd, Robert White, Robert Parsons, Alfonso Ferrabosco, John Shepherd, Thomas Tallis, William Mundy, Christopher Tye, Orlandus Lassus, John Taverner, Richard Farrant, and Peter Phillips. Much of the best loved music by William Byrd, Robert Parsons, and Robert White in particular is found in this source, especially pieces such as Byrd's “Ne irascaris”, Parsons' “Ave Maria” and “O bone Jesu”, and White's Lamentations setting for five voices. Many of the works are equally appropriate for viol consort as for vocal ensemble, and the superb presentation of the text and condition of the books makes this an ideal source from which to play and sing. With comprehensive indices and concordance list. Wrappers, with slipcase. $399 (more info... ) [item no.9140]


[“Elisabeth’s lute book”] Lautenbuch der Elisabeth von Hessen / Elisabeth’s Lute Book. Facsimile 4° Ms. Mus. 108.1. Universitätsbibliothek Kassel. Herausgegeben von / Edited by Axel Halle. Mitarbeiterinnen / Collaborators: Angelika Horstmann (Einleitung), Betty C. Bushey, Translation.

Kassel, 2005. Oblong, 18.5 x 15 cm, 24, 200 pp. Beautiful halftone facsimile of a collection of solo lute music, German, French and Italian songs with lute accompaniment and finger exercises formerly in the possession of Elisabeth (1596-1626), the eldest daughter of the Landgraf Moritz von Hessen. The instrumental pieces are notated in French lute tablature while the vocal compositions are notated in white mensural notation. Composers include Victor de Montbuysson and George Schimmelpfennig. 7-course lute. Hardbound with coverboards that duplicate the original (sumptuously decorated with the family’s coat of arms). Few copies remaining. $125 (more info... ) [item no.8610]


English Lute Songs V: 8) Cavendish. Ayres in Tabletorie 1598; 20) Ferrabosco. Ayres 1609; 21) Ford. Musicke of Sundrie Kindes 1607; 22) Greaves. Songs of Sundrie Kindes; 23) Handford. Ayres to be Sung to the Lute.

London, 1971. 26 x 37 cm, c.250 pp. Hardbound. $100 [item no.8320b]


[Eton College Library, MS 178] The Eton Choirbook. A Full-Colour Facsimile of Eton College Library, MS 178.

Oxford, 2010. 30.6 x 42,7 cm, 60 + vi, 252 + vi pp. One of the most iconic of music manuscripts, the Eton Choirbook is of unique importance, both in its own right as a cultural artefact and as a source of English choral polyphony composed during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Had it perished, along with so many other (less fortunate) pre-Reformation music manuscripts, our knowledge of a critical moment in the history of English music would have been immensely diminished. Ever since it was first copied for use in the college chapel in the early 1500s, the choirbook has been continuously in the possession of Eton College. Several composers whose works were included in it had close associations with the college, not least Robert Wylkynson, who served as the college’s informator choristarum from 1500. Other composers represented include Banastre, Browne, Cornyshe, Davy, Fawkyner, Fayrfax, Hygons, Lambe and Turges. Most of its original contents (67 out of a total of 93 pieces) were votive antiphons, or devotional motets of prayer and praise, sung each evening to the Virgin Mary, the college’s dedicatee. The Salve ceremony, familiar to worshippers throughout Catholic Europe, lay at the heart of Eton College’s raison d’être as a chantry college: the Eton Choirbook is an eloquent witness to this flowering of devotional culture on the eve of the Reformation. The manuscript is also a work of consummate artistry, copied by an experienced scribe on large vellum leaves, and illuminated by a professional limner. Even in its in-complete state (nearly half of its original 224 leaves have been lost), the Eton Choirbook is the undoubted queen of early Tudor music manuscripts. Commentary by Magnus Williamson. Limited edition, bound in buckram. $350 (more info... ) [item no.9142]


Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio, Ms. 2439, “Basevi Codex”. Introduction: Honey Meconi.

Facsimile Series, I/A.7. Peer, 1991. 24 x 17 cm, viii, 212 pp. Halftone. Important anthology of 87 secular works in mensural notation and choirbook format. Copied between 1506 and 1514 in the Flemish scriptoria of Brussels and Mechelen. Besides 56 French pieces, there are 8 motet-chansons, 3 mass fragments, 9 motets and 7 Flemish works. 4 pages presenting the coats of arms of the patron family are reproduced in full color. Hardbound. $67 (more info... ) [item no.3891]


Florence, Archivio Musicale dell’Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, MS 11.

Renaissance Music in Facsimile, 3. New York, 1987. 330 pp. Halftone. Anthology of motets copied in 1557 for use at Santa Maria del Fiore. Cloth. $112 [item no.2297]


Ghirlanda sacra [da diversi eccellentissimi compositori de varii motetti a voce sola. Libro primo. Opera seconda per Leonardo Simonetti]. Venetia, Gardano 1625. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 23. Stuttgart, 1999. Oblong, 23 x 11 cm, 2 partbooks, 307 pp. Line-cut of the Gardano edition, Venice, 1625. Wonderful collection of 45 motets for solo voice & bc by Monteverdi, Priuli, Volpe, Grandi, Berti, Finetti, Castello and others. Hardbound with marbled paper boards and matching slipcase. $110 [item no.8329]


Italienische geistliche Konzerte. [Stifts Kremsmünster, Ms. I.76].

Faksimile-Edition Kremsmünster, 39. Stuttgart, 2021. Oblong, 22 x 18 cm, 162 pp. Fascinating manuscript collection of 24 motet settings in monodic style for 1 and 2 voices and basso continuo. For the most part all of the passaggiate and ornaments are written out, shedding light on contemporary performance practice. Hardbound with marbled boards. $65 [item no.9645]


Livre septième, dat is het boeck van de zanghkunst . . . met 4 stemmen te zingen: en opnieuw verrykt met verscheyden stukken, a 2. 3. 4. en 5, stemmen, door D.J. Swelingh . . . en andere voorname Autheuren. [Rijksarchief, Haarlem; Archief van de hervormde kerk, classis Alkmaar].

Facsimile Series, I/B.2. Peer, 1984. Oblong, 22 x 16 cm, 4 partbooks, 224 pp. Line-cut of the Amsterdam, 1644 edition. Popular anthology of chansons, madrigals, and Dutch songs. Works by Sweelinck, Clemens non Papa, Cricquillon, Sandrin, Dirk, etc. Wrappers. [item no.1363]


[London, British Library, Add. Ms. 31922] The Henry VIII Book (British Library, Add. MS 31922). Facsimile with Introduction by David Fallows.

Diamm Facsimiles, 4. Oxford, 2014. 33 x 24 cm. 85, 273 pp. Full-color facsimile on heavy matt art paper. Anthology of mostly secular pieces probably copied in London ca. 1510-1520 and associated with the Court of Henry VIII. Includes 53 English secular songs, 15 French or French/English songs, 3 Dutch songs and 35 textless pieces. Although the MS was almost certainly not made for him (its decorations are too modest) in all likelihood it contains the repertory of Henry’s own music-making sessions, clearly written out and easy to read, a perfect size for intrumentalists or singers. Hardbound in blue buckram. $169 (more info... ) [item no.9394]


[London, British Library, add. 35087] Chansonnier of Hieronymus Lauweyn van Watervliet. London, British Library, Ms. Add. 35 087. Introduction: William McMurtry.

Facsimile Series, I/A.6. Peer, 1989. 20 x 30 cm, xii, 190 pp. Halftone. Commissioned around 1505 by Lauweryn, Lord of Watervliet and Poortviet, and active at the courts of Maximilian, Philip the Good and Margaret of Austria. Copied c.1505, possibly in Bruges. Contains 36 French chansons, 25 songs in Dutch, 1 motet-chanson, 14 Latin and 2 Italian works. Composers include Agricola, Compère, Mouton, and Josquin. Cloth. [item no.2804]


[London, British Library, Royal MS 11 E XI] Music for King Henry. BL Royal MS 11 E XI. Commentary by Nicolas Bell. Performing Edition by David Skinner.

London, 2009. 35 x 50 cm. 36, 120 pp, audio CD. Of all the courtly arts practiced by King Henry VIII, music was undoubtedly his greatest passion. As well as being a talented harpist and composer, Henry was a great patron of the musical arts in Europe, and his reign heralded a golden age in English choral music. Henry employed 58 full-time court musicians, more than any other monarch before or since, including a chapel choir that was said to be “more divine than human”. Many of today’s great English musical institutions such as the choirs of Christ Church, Oxford and King’s College, Cambridge were founded during his reign. Several manuscripts survive to testify to Henry’s love of music, but the most important is the Royal Choirbook, now British Library Royal MS 11 E XI. This magnificent collection of motets was presented to the 27-year-old Henry and Catherine of Aragon in 1518. It is exceptional for the sheer size and luxury of its production, its exquisite and ingenious heraldic illuminations, and not least, its personal significance to Henry. The Royal Choirbook was commissioned and designed by Petrus de Opitiis, an Italian merchant, and his son Benedictus, a talented organist who hoped to gain a position at court. Together they created a magnificent large-format volume of 6 motets. Composed by Benedictus and a musician named Sampson, these motets were written to appeal to the king on the deepest possible level, reflecting both his royal status and his dearest wish: the birth of a male heir. The Choirbook opens with a sumptuous frontispiece, rich in symbolism carefully chosen to celebrate Henry’s lineage. It depicts a rose bush with 3 large blooms. One is the red rose of Lancaster, while the red-and-white rose depicts the union of the houses of York and Lancaster. The crowned rose represents King Henry himself. A pomegranate tree, shown blooming in the garden of England, is the symbol of Catherine of Aragon, while a daisy and a marigold represent Henry’s two sisters, Mary and Margaret. As well as being a breathtaking piece of heraldic art, the frontispiece ingeniously incorporates the texts of the first two motets, Salve radix and Psallite felices, with Henry’s name highlighted in gold leaf. Deluxe facsimile edition limited to 500 copies, in quarter buckram with vegetable parchment boards, with gold and colored foils, edge-gilding and slipcase. With CD recording by the “Alamire Consort” directed by Dr. David Skinner. $845 (more info... ) [item no.9125]


London, British Library, Royal 20.A.XVI.

Renaissance Music in Facsimile, 10. New York, 1987. 120 pp. Halftone. Late 15th-c. source of Netherlandish secular music by Agricola, Hayne van Ghiseghem and others. Cloth. $85 [item no.2313]


[London, Lambeth Palace Library, ms 1] The Arundel Choirbook. A Facsimile & Introduction by David Skinner.

[Huttersfield]. 2003. 31 x 41 cm, 230 pp. 3 English choirbooks have survived intact from the early Tudor period: the Eton Choirbook, and the “Caius” and “Lambeth” Choirbooks (now housed at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and Lambeth Palace Library, respectively). While Eton is known to have originated from the great college of that name, the provenance of Caius and Lambeth has, until now, been a complete mystery. The man responsible for their production has long been held to be Edward Higgons, a prominent Tudor lawyer and multiple plurist who was a canon of St. Stephen's, Westminster, where Nicholas Ludford, a principal composer in both manuscripts, was employed from the early 1520s. On the last page of the Caius Choirbook is written the inscription “Ex dono et opere Edwardi Higgons cuius ecclsie canonicis”, which may be translated as “By the gift and work of Edward Higgons, canon of this church”. The “ecclesia” is now believed to be St. Stephen's, although the origins of the Lambeth Choirbooks have been much less well understood. It has, however, been generally accepted that it too was produced for one of the ecclesiastical institutions with which Higgons was associated. This is a story of one music manuscript of thousands that must have circulated in late medieval England; it is also a narrative of only one musical institution from the hundreds that were in existence before the onslaught of Henry VIII's Reformation. The bulk of this Roxburghe Club volume constitutes a full-color facsimile of London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1 (“The Arundel Choirbook”), providing a single but significant resource that richly illustrates England's early musical heritage. The manuscript contains 7 masses, 4 magnificat settings and 8 motets. Robert Fayrfax is represented by 8 works, followed by Ludford (2), Sturton (1) and Lambe (1). The Arundel Choirbook is one of just three major choirbooks that survive from c.1490 to 1530. The original size of the choirbook, in “elephant” folio, has been reduced 50%–to 12.5 x 16.5 inches–for this facsimile edition. All text printed in letterset; total edition of 300 copies. Quarter leather bound, wood boards. (few copies remaining). $725 (more info... ) [item no.8361]


[London, Royal College of Music, Ms. 1070] The Anne Boleyn Music Book. Introduction by Thomas Schmidt and David Skinner with Katja Airaksinen-Monier.

Diamm Facsimiles, 6. Oxford, 2017. 21 x 30 cm. 58, 270 pp. This modestly-sized but beautifully written book contains sacred motets by some of Europe’s most famous composers, specifically those associated with the French Royal Court of the early 16th century. An inscription in an early sixteenth-century English hand reads “M[ist]res A Bolleyene Nowe thus” followed by musical motto of three minims and a longa; that she is referenced “mistress” indicates that the inscription was certainly made before she became queen in 1533; “nowe thus” was the motto of her father. Despite considerable interest by musicologists in past decades, the book remains something of a mystery: clearly made in France, but associated in a yet-to-be-determined way with Henry VIII's second wife. For the facsimile production the RCM removed the MS from its 19th-century binding, making it possible to study the layers and compilation. Commentary includes chapters on the historical context of the book, a new analysis of its structure, the significance of the music it contains with some new ascriptions, an analysis of the decoration, and a list of concordances and editions. Hardbound. $124 (more info... ) [item no.9553]


[Louvain, Alamire Foundation] Leuven Chansonnier. General Editors: David J. Burn & Bart Demuyt ; [study by David J. Burn ; Nederlandse vertaling: Ignace Bossuyt].

Leuven Library of Music in Facsimile, 1. Antwerpen, 2017. 8.5 x 12 cm, 2 vols, 190 pp + commentary. What a story! In 2014, a small Brussels auction-house sold a lot containing a statue, an illuminated initial, and a songbook, to a private art-dealer. The songbook was brought to the Alamire Foundation/KU Leuven Musicology Research Group for further examination. The book, it turned out, was a previously unknown late 15th-c. chansonnier, complete and in its original cloth binding. The rediscovery of such a source in unaltered form is extremely rare, it's been almost a century since the last such discovery. The manuscript was acquired through the Léon Courtin—Marcelle Bouché Fund, administered by the Belgian King Baudouin Foundation. The songbook was subsequently loaned long-term to the Alamire Foundation. Like several other similar chansonniers, this codex has been named after the location where it is preserved. The “Leuven Chansonnier” is a unique witness from the 15th century. What makes this manuscript so special? This very small and yet substantial book, penned more than 500 years ago, is in astonishingly good condition. It contains 50 compositions representing the very best of Franco-Flemish polyphony (by composers including Ockeghem, Binchois, and Busnois). It contains 12 previously unknown songs, thus offering a new perspective on the polyphony of the Low Countries. The present publication offers a full color reproduction of the MS accompanied by a scholarly commentary in Eng/Dut. $75 (more info... ) [item no.9570]


[Low Countries] Hymni ofte Loff-Sangen op de christelijcke Feest-Dagen, ende Ander-Sins.

Facsimiles of Dutch Songbooks, 1. Buren, 1967. 12 x 19 cm, xx, 129 pp. Line-cut of The Hague, 1615 edition. Introduction by Jan van Biezen and Marie Veldhuyzen. Wrappers. $40 [item no.731]


[Lucca, Archivio di Stato, ms 238; Lucca, Archivio Arcivescovile, ms 97] The Lucca Choirbook. Lucca, Archivio di Stato, MS 238; Lucca, Archivio Arcivescovile, MS 97; Pisa, Archivio Arcivescovile, Bibliotheca Maffi, Cartella 1 1/III. With and Introduction and Inventory by Reinhard Strohm.

Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Music in Facsimile, 2. Chicago, 2008. 26 x 36 cm, 208 pp. More than forty years ago in the state archives of Lucca, Italy, Reinhard Strohm noticed that bindings on some of the books consisted of the pages of a centuries-old music manuscript. In the following years, Strohm worked with the archivists to remove these leaves and reassemble as much as possible of the original manuscript, a major cultural recovery now known as The Lucca Choirbook. The recovered volume comprises what remains of a gigantic cathedral codex commissioned in Bruges around 1463 and containing English, Franco-Flemish, and Italian sacred music of the 15th century—including works by Dufay and Isaac. This facsimile of the choirbook includes all the known leaves, ordered according to their proper placement in the original codex. In the introduction, Strohm tells the fascinating story of this choirbook, identifying its early users and reconstructing its travel from Bruges to Lucca. Linen. $290 (more info... ) [item no.7081]


[Mechelen, Stadsarchief, Ms s.s] Mechelen Choirbook MS s.s. Facsimile and Commentary. General Editors: David J. Burn & Bart Demuyt.

Leuven Library of Music in Facsimile, 3. Antwerpen, 2021. 44 x 66 cm, 2 vols, 220 pp + commentary. Facsimile and study of the so-called Mechels Koorboek. This magnificent parchment choirbook comes from the esteemed workshop of Petrus Alamire and most likely was made on the occasion of the coming of age and coronation of Charles V in 1515-1516. It contains exquisite miniatures by Gerard Horenbout and 6 masses by La Rue and 1 by Pierre de Pipelare, notated in classic choirbook format. The present publication offers a full color reproduction of the MS accompanied by a scholarly commentary in Eng/Dut. Rerettably the publisher has chosen not to make the facsimile volume commercially available, OMI can only provide the study volume. $102 (more info... ) [item no.9587]


[Mennonite Songbooks] [Ausbund] Etliche schöne christliche Geseng, wie sie in der Gefengknisz zu Passaw im Schlosz von den Schweitzer Brüdern durch Gottes gnad geticht und gesungen worden.

Mennonite Songbooks: German Series, I. Amsterdam, [1973]. 12 x 16 cm, 125 pp. Line-cut of the 1564 edition, from the only known copy in the possession of the Goshen College Library, Goshen, Indiana. The oldest hymn book of the Swiss Brethren consisting of 51 hymnes written by a number of Antibaptists in the dungeons of the castle. Wrappers. (no music). $79 [item no.2818]


[Mennonite Songbooks] Joris, David. Een geestelijck liedt-boecxken: Inholdende veel schoone sinrijcke christelijcke liedekens.

Mennonite Songbooks: Dutch Series, I. Amsterdam, 1971. Oblong, 11 x 9 cm, 190 pp. Line-cut of the Dierick Mullem edition, Rotterdam, c.1580. Includes 25 musical settings. Linen. $85 [item no.3227]


[Methods & theoretical writings, Renaissance, France, integrale source, parts1-4] Renaissance française. Quatre volumes réalises par Olivier Trachier. Traités, méthodes, préfaces, ouvrages generaux.

Méthodes et Traités, IX. Courlay, 2005. 4º, 4 vols, 1325 pp. Line-cut. Collection of theoretical writings on renaissance French theory, including Guerson, Wollick, Bourgeois, Champier, Guilliaud, Hesdin, Lefèvre d’Etaples, Martin, telin, Calvin, Euclide, Menehou, Philibert Jambe de Fer, Tyard, Vallette, Bertrand, Blockland de Monfort, Caïetain, Costeley, Grégoire, Je Jeune, Macé & Dandin, Plutarque, Ronsard, Yssandon & several anonymous theorists. Indispensable resources for students of Renaissance theory. Wrappers. $354 [item no.8581]


[Methods & theoretical writings, Renaissance, France, integrale source, part 1] Renaissance française. Quatre volumes réalises par Olivier Trachier. Traités, méthodes, préfaces, ouvrages generaux. Volume 1: Anonyme (1-2), Guerson, Wollick.

Méthodes et Traités, IX. Courlay, 2005. 4º, ix, 330 pp. Line-cut. Collection of 4 theoretical writings on renaissance French theory, from 2 anonymous authors to Wollick. Wrappers. $119 [item no.8582]


[Methods & theoretical writings, Renaissance, France, integrale source, part 2] Renaissance française. Quatre volumes réalises par Olivier Trachier. Traités, méthodes, préfaces, ouvrages generaux. Volume II: Bourgeois, Champier, Guilliaud, Hesdin, Lefèvre d’Etaples, Martin, Telin.

Méthodes et Traités, IX. Courlay, 2005. 4º, ix, 332 pp. Line-cut. Collection of 7 theoretical writings on renaissance French theory, from Bourgeois to Telin. Wrappers. $89 [item no.8583]


[Methods & theoretical writings, Renaissance, France, integrale source, part 3] Renaissance française. Quatre volumes réalises par Olivier Trachier. Traités, méthodes, préfaces, ouvrages generaux. Volume 3: Anonyme (3: Calvin?), Euclide, Martin, Menehou, Philibert Jambe de Fer, Tyard, Vallette.

Méthodes et Traités, IX. Courlay, 2005. 4º, ix, 305 pp. Line-cut. Collection of 9 theoretical writings on renaissance French theory, from 3 anonymous authors to Vallette. Wrappers. $115 [item no.8584]


[Methods & theoretical writings, Renaissance, France, integrale source, part 4] Renaissance française. Quatre volumes réalises par Olivier Trachier. Traités, méthodes, préfaces, ouvrages generaux. Volume 4: Anonymes (4-5-6), Bertrand (1-2-3), Blockland de Monfort, Caïetain, Costeley, Grégoire, Le Jeune (Cécile), Le Jeune (Claude), Macé et Dandin, Plutarque, Ronsard, Yssandon.

Méthodes et Traités, IX. Courlay, 2005. 4º, ix, 322 pp. Line-cut. Collection of 16 theoretical writings on renaissance French theory, from 3 anonymous authors to Yssandon. Wrappers. $119 [item no.8585]


[Milan, Bibl. Alida Varzi] The Medici Codex of 1518. A Choirbook of Motets Dedicated to Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino. Facsimile Edition with a Prefatory Note by Edward E. Lowinsky.

Monuments of Renaissance Music, V. Chicago, 1968. 27 x 37 cm, ix, 309 pp. Halftone. Anthology of motets by Josquin, Mouton, Brumel, Willaert, etc. One of the most precious parchment mss from the 16th-c. Presented by Francis I to Lorenzo de’ Medici on the occasion of his wedding to a French princess. Cloth. $185 [item no.1336]


[Milan, Bibl. Alida Varzi] The Medici Codex of 1518 . . . Historical Introduction and Commentary by Edward E. Lowinsky.

Monuments of Renaissance Music, III. Chicago, 1968. 27 x 37 cm, xiv, 245 pp. Cloth. $175 [item no.1337]


[Milan, Bibl. Alida Varzi] The Medici Codex of 1518 . . . Transcriptions by Edward Lowinsky.

Monuments of Renaissance Music, IV. Chicago, 1968. 27 x 37 cm, ix, 405 pp. Cloth. $203 [item no.1338]


[Milan, Bibl. Alida Varzi] Liber motetorum Laurentii de Medici Ducis Urbinatis (1518).

[Leuven], c.1985. 21 x 29 cm, 291 pp. Line-cut. Wrappers. $50 [item no.2517]


Milan, Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, The Tarasconi Codex. Introduction by Jessie Ann Owens.

Renaissance Music in Facsimile, 11. New York, 1986. 4º, xxiii, 475 pp. Halftone. Anthology of madrigals in score format copied in Parma during the last part of the 16th c. Cloth. $150 [item no.2300]


[Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibl., clm 351] Das Liederbuch des Dr. Hartmann Schedel: Faksimile.

Das Erbe Deutscher Musik, 84. Kassel, 1978. Oblong, 33 x 25 cm, vi, 174, 4 pp. Halftone of an important German songbook copied during the 1460s by the Nuremberg doctor and historian, Hartmann Schedel. 128 pieces with music, 68 of which are polyphonic lieder. The collection includes works by Dufay, Ockeghem, Busnois, and other Franco-Flemish composers. 26 concordances with the Buxheimer Orgelbuch. Linen. $198 [item no.1413]


[New Haven, Yale, Univ. Library, 91] The Mellon Chansonnier. Edited by Leeman L. Perkins and Howard Garey.

New Haven, 1979. Oblong, 33 x 24 cm, xv, 204 with 90 pp. Halftone reproduction and modern transcription of a c.1470 chansonnier which takes its name from its last private owner Paul Mellon who presented the ms to Yale University in 1940. This exquisite manuscript was copied in Naples for the princely library, possibly for the wedding of Beatrice of Aragon, daughter of the king of Naples, and Mathias Corvinus. It includes songs by two of the greatest composers associated with the Burgundian Court, Johannes Okeghem and Guillaume Dufay. Other composers represented: Busnoys, Caron, G. Joye, Binchoys Vincenet, Bedingham, Morton, Petit Jan, A. Basin, J. Tinctoris, Regis, G. le Rouge & W. Fry. This edition with facsimiles and modern edition on facing pages has tremendous teaching value for students interested in learning 15th-c. mensural notation. Cloth. (few copies remaining) $125 (more info... ) [item no.1435]


Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Misc. 213. With an Introduction and Inventory by David Fallows.

Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Music in Facsimile, 1. Chicago, 1995. 26 x 36 cm, 376 pp. Beautiful halftone reproduction based on newly commissioned photography. Copied probably in Venice around 1430, the Oxford manuscript contains the most comprehensive surviving collection of secular songs of the late 14th and early 15th centuries. Of the 326 pieces, 216 are unica. Including works by Guillaume Dufay, Binchois, and nearly all other leading composers of their generation, it is central to an understanding of 15th-c. song traditions. Because of the copyist's clear and distinctive hand, it is also significant for studies of late medieval musical notation. David Fallows' introduction includes a history of the manuscript, analysis of its preparation, and survey of its choice of repertory, as well as a full inventory of the music and alphabetical indexes by title and composer. The original-size facsimile includes beta-radiographs of all watermarks, as well as ultraviolet photos that show the copyist's changes and revisions. Cloth. $301 (more info... ) [item no.7079]


[Oxford, Christ Church, MSS 984-988] The Dow Partbooks, Christ Church, Oxford, MSS 984-988. Facsimile Edition. Introductory Study by John Milsom.

Oxford, 2010. Oblong, 19.4 x 14.2 cm, 5 partbooks, 960 pp; 150 pp. A full-color facsimile edition of Oxford, Christ Church, MSS 984-988, written in the beautiful calligraphic hand of Robert Dow, a 16th-c. fellow of All Souls, Oxford. These partbooks—discantus, medius, altus, tenor, bassus—are a major source of music by William Byrd, Robert White, Robert Parsons, Alfonso Ferrabosco, John Shepherd, Thomas Tallis, William Mundy, Christopher Tye, Orlandus Lassus, John Taverner, Richard Farrant, and Peter Phillips. Much of the best loved music by William Byrd, Robert Parsons, and Robert White in particular is found in this source, especially pieces such as Byrd's “Ne irascaris”, Parsons' “Ave Maria” and “O bone Jesu”, and White's Lamentations setting for five voices. Many of the works are equally appropriate for viol consort as for vocal ensemble, and the superb presentation of the text and condition of the books makes this an ideal source from which to play and sing. With comprehensive indices and concordance list. Wrappers, with slipcase. $399 (more info... ) [item no.9140]


[Paris, Bibl. Nationale, fr. 1597] Chansonnier de la Lorraine. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1597.

Waiblingen, c.1991. 15 x 21 cm, 158, iii pp. Line-cut reproduction of a central French chansonnier (Agricola circle) documenting the change from 3 to 4-voice texture. In choirbook format with mensural notation. Coverboards in parchment paper with handsome cloth spine. $96 [item no.4635]


[Paris, Bibl. Nationale, nouv. acq. fr. 2973, selections] In, “The Bad Bishop’s Book of Love Songs”, Horizon VI (1964).

4º, 6 pp. Full-color halftone of 6 pages from “Chansonnier Cordiforme”, a unique manuscript that is in the shape of a single heart when closed and of two joined hearts when open. Copied around 1470 for the French cleric Jean de Montchenu. Reproduces in fullthe 3-voice songs “Gentil madona de no me habandonare” and “Commene ung homme desconforte”. $20 [item no.4158]


[Paris, Bibl. Nationale, rés. vmc., 57] Chansonnier Nivelle de la Chaussée (Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. Rés. Vmc. ms. 57, ca 1460). Introduction de Paula Higgins.

Manuscrits, 2. Geneva, 1984. 13 x 20 cm, 26, 178 pp. Halftone. 70 pieces including works by Dufay, Binchois, Busnois, Ockeghem and 7 unica by Jean Delahaye. Acquired from the private library of Geneviève Thibault. 8 folios that are now faint are produced twice, the second time with the aid of ultraviolet exposure. Wrappers. $152 [item no.1397]


Pavia, Biblioteca Universitaria, Aldini, MS 362. Introduction by Frank A. D’Accone.

Renaissance Music in Facsimile, 16. New York, 1986. 23 x 31 cm, xii, 186 pp. Halftone. Anthology of 44 French and Italian songs compiled probably in Savoy during the 1460s. Opens with brief set of theoretical manuals dealing with solfège and musical notation. Cloth. $90 [item no.2308]


[Porto, Biblioteca Pública Municipal, ms. 714] Porto 714: Um manuscrito precioso. Manuel Pedro Ferreira.

Porto, 2001. 15.5 x 23 cm, 240 pp. Color halftone of a lovely renaissance manuscript probably written in Ferrara around 1465. This source actually consists of two parts, a theoretical section, fols.1-50 (a tract on solmization, tones and modes and the “Libellus cantus mensurabilis” by the celebrated theorist Johannes de Muris), and a collection of polyphonic songs with Italian or French texts, fols.51-79, copied in choirbook format. The music notation for the song section—executed in solid black and red ink—figures—is unusual for this time period. The composers include Robert de Anglia (2), Galfridus de Anglia (2), John Bedyngham (3), Guillaume Dufay (8) and Gilles Joye (1). The ms features 30 decorated initials executed in gold, blue, red and green ink. Commentary and codicological remarks in Portuguese and English. Bound in dark brown cloth with embossed title. (more info... ) [item no.8594]


[Regensburg] Cantiones Germanicae im Regensburger Obsequiale von 1570. Erstes offizielles katholisches Gesangbuch Deutschlands herausgegeben von Klaus Gamber.

Textus Patristici et Liturgici, 14. Regensburg, 1983. 14 x 22 cm, 113 pp. Line-cut of the Regensburg, 1570 edition. This Catholic songbook, published within a Rituale from the diocese of Regensburg, is considered the first “official” songbook ever published in Germany. Cloth. $55 [item no.4436]


[Regensburg, Bischöflichen Zentralbibliothek, Ms. A.R. 775-777] Ms. A.R. 775-777 Proske-Bibliothek Regensburg. Vorwort von Raymond Dittrich.

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 66. Stuttgart, 2015. 21 x 30 cm, 6 partbooks, vi, 718 pp. Line-cut of one the three most precious music manuscripts in the possession of the Proske-Bibliothek of the BZB. Of a total of 120 settings Lasso is represented by 34 pieces, Alessandro Striggio by 18, along with works by Cambio, Merulo, Vaet, Clemens non Papa, Meiland, Truthaer, Verdelot, Wert, Crécquillon, Deprez, Hollander, Prenner Corteccia, Gosswinus, Faignient, Bischoff, Monte, Padovano, Utendal, Claudius, Palestrina, Langius, A. Gabrieli, Fabricius, Ruffo, & Lange. The partbook MS—Discantus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus, Vagant, Sexta Vox— carries the title “1579 - Orlandi Lassi Sexta Vocum”, a reference to the Angelo Gardano print from which the first 11 Lasso works derive. The manuscript has received the attention of a number of musicologists, Armin Brinzing for localization, dating and repertorial makeup, and Eric Fiedler for important evidence regarding wind band performing practice. Includes CD recording “In Principio - Musik der Grazer Hofkapelle” which includes a number of works from A.R.775-777. Hardbound in decorative paper, with matching slipcase. $375 (more info... ) [item no.9431]


[Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, 2856] A Ferrarese Chansonnier: Roma, Biblioteca Casanatense 2856. “Canzoniere di Isabella d’Este”. Edited by Lewis Lockwood.

Lucca, 2002. 24.5 x 34 cm, xxxii, 1, 331 pp. Line-cut of a central Italian chansonnier once belonging to Isabella d’Este of Ferrara, Marquise of Mantua. Contains 113 works a3 and 10 a4 in choirbook format executed in a beautiful calligraphic hand. The ms provides text incipits but no text underlay. Includes works by Busnois, Agricola, Caron, Martini, Ockeghem, plus many others. Cloth. Special OMI price (regularly $430). $378 (more info... ) [item no.8124]


[Rostock, Universitätsbibl. Phil. 100/2] Rostock Liederbuch: Niederdeutsche Handschrift des 15. Jahrhunderts aus dem Bestand der Universitätsbibliothek Rostock; Das Rostocker Liederbuch nach den Fragmenten der Handschrift neu herausgegeben von F. Ranke & J.M. Müller (1927).

[=Schriften der Königsberger gelehrten Gesellschaft, 4]. Leipzig, 1987. 17 x 24, Oblong, 23 x 15 cm, 113, 5; 44 pp. 2-color halftone of the c.1475 songbook. Includes 27 monophonic pieces and 2 a2. Forms 6 concordances with the “Lochaimer Liederbuch”. Together with a reprint of the important study by Ranke and Müller-Blattau (Halle, 1927). Cloth. $64 (more info... ) [item no.1757]


[Rostock, Universitätsbibl. Phil. 100/2] Rostock Liederbuch: Niederdeutsche Handschrift des 15. Jahrhunderts aus dem Bestand der Universitätsbibliothek Rostock; Das Rostocker Liederbuch nach den Fragmenten der Handschrift neu herausgegeben von F. Ranke & J.M. Müller.

Documenta Musicologica, II/18. Kassel, 1987. 17 x 24, Oblong, 23 x 15 cm, 113, 5; 44 pp. 2-color halftone of the c.1475 songbook. Includes 27 monophonic pieces and 2 a 2. Forms 6 concordances with the “Lochaimer Liederbuch”. Together with a reprint of the important study by Ranke and Müller-Blattau (Halle, 1927). Cloth. [item no.3975]


[Saint Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, 461] Songbook of Fridolin Sicher. Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Ms.461. Introduction: David Fallows.

Facsimile Series, I/A.10. Peer, 1996. 16 x 21 cm, 32, 96 pp. Halftone of a composite source copied c.1500. Contains 4 Flemish, 2 Italian and 37 French secular pieces, plus a number of mass ordinary settings and 1 motet. Composers include Agricola, Brumel, Busnoys, Compere, Isaac, Josquin, de la Rue, Obrect, Ockeghem, and others. $59 (more info... ) [item no.7150]


[Saint Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, 462] Das Liederbuch des Johannes Herr von Glarus.

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 7. Stuttgart, 1999. Oblong, 26 x 20 cm, 172, i pp. St. Gall 462 appears to be the copybook of Johannes Heer, a musician and citizen of Glarus, and student in Paris. Contains many famous chansons from the 15th and 16th centuries, lacking attributions; included among them is Josquin’s royal piece with a complete French text and marginal note at the end of the bass part “Parisius 1510 pro festo corpore”, Harbound, with vellum paper boards. $144 [item no.7735]


[Seville, Bibl. Colombina, 5-I-43] Sevilla 5-I-43 & Paris n.a. fr. 4379 (Pt. I). Facsimile Reproduction of the Manuscripts with an Introduction by Dragan Plamenac.

Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts, 8. New York, 1962. 21 x 32 cm, 6, 91 pp. Halftone on glossy paper of two late 15th-c. sources that originally formed one chansonnier. Reproduced in reduced format with 4 plates per page. Cloth. $51 [item no.1403]


[Seville, Bibl. Colombina, 7-I-28] Cancionero musical de La Colombina (Cantinelas vulgares puestas en música por varios españoles) (s. XV). Edición facsímil [por José Sierra y José Carlos Gosálvez].

Madrid, 2006. 16 x 22 cm, 220 pp. Spanish songbook copied c.1460-1480 during the reign of the Catholic kings. The MS, the work of a single scribe, is an important precursor to the Cancionero de Palacio. Once consisting of 107 folios (17 are now lost), the collection contains 95 works, primarily for 3 to 4 voices. Composers include Juan de Triana (20), Juan Comago (6), Johannes Wreede (3), Ockeghem (2), Hurtado de Xerés (2), Enrique (2), Francisco de la Torre (1), Juan de León (1), Juán Fernández de Madrid (1), Pedro de Lagarto (1), Juan Pérez de Gijón (1), Juanes (1), Belmonte (1), Móxica (1) & Rodríguez (1). Wrappers. $60 (more info... ) [item no.8832]


Siena, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, MS K.I.2. Introduction by Frank A. D’Accone.

Renaissance Music in Facsimile, 17. New York, 1986. 23 x 31 cm, xiv, 442 pp. Tuscan cathedral choirbook, c.1500, containing psalms, hymns, magnificats, motets and masses by Josquin, Isaac, Obrecht and others. Cloth. $128 [item no.2301]


[Strasbourg, Bibl. munic., M.222 C.22] Le manuscrit musical M.222 C.22 de la Bibliothèque de Strasbourg.

Thesaurus musicus II. Brussels, 1979. 22 x 31 cm, 8, 161 pp. 2-color line-cut of Coussemaker’s handwritten (partial) copy of a now lost 15th-c. source of Franco-Flemish polyphony. Includes a handful of German lieder. Wrappers. $95 [item no.1402]


[Sweden] Breviarium lincopense, tryckt tidegärdsbok från 1493. Utgiven i nytryck av Knut Peters och med register upprättat av Karl Erik Wallin.

Laurentius Petri Sällskapets Urkundserie, V. Lund, 1950-1958. 15 x 23 cm, 7 vols: 916, 190 pp. Authoritative modern edition of an important breviary from Linköping dated 1493. Indispensable reference tool for any research on church music from Scandinavia. 5 volumes of text and 2 of indices. Wrappers. $88 [item no.4486]


[Sweden] Liber cantus wexionesis, Utgiven med inledning av Pehr Edwall.

Laurentius Petri Sällskapets Urkundserie, III. Lund, 1943. Oblong, 19 x 15 cm, 11, 116 pp. Line-cut of the Eskil Matzson edition, Uppsala, 1623. Liber cantus wexionensis (for Nicolaus Church in Växjö) and Liber cantus upsaliensis (1620) are the oldest “true” printed song books from Reformation Sweden. Printed with movable type with occasional wood block decorations. Introduction and index in Swedish. Wrappers. $35 [item no.4484]


[Sweden] Een Liten Songbook til at Bruka j Kyrkionne, Stockholm 1553. Utgiven i faksimil efter den s.k. Lindblomsboken i Västerås stadbibliothek med efterskrift av Folke Bohlin. Del I.

Laurentius Petri Sällskapets Urkundserie, XII. Lund, 1977. 14 x 20 cm, ii, 60 pp. Line-cut of the Stockholm, 1552 edition. One of the earliest “partially” printed song books from Sweden. The texts have been printed from movable type, the ornaments and initials from wood blocks, and the music entered by hand. Wrappers. $28 [item no.3216]


[Sweden] Messan på swenko 1557. Utgiven i faksimil med inledning av Sigtrygg Serensius.

Laurentius Petri Sällskapets Urkundserie, X. Lund, 1969. 15 x 21 cm, xxiii, 44 pp. Line-cut of the Stockholm, 1557 edition. Similar to Luther’s Deutsche Messe, this publication establishes the order of the high Mass and comes from Sweden’s first evangelical Archbishop, Laurentius Petri. Includes musical settings and a number of lovely wood block illustrations. Introduction, index and bibliography. Wrappers. $24 [item no.4488]


[Ulm, Stadtbibliothek, Schermar-Bibl. Sign. 235] Ms. Motteten und Deutsche Lieder, Ulm(?) um 1575.

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 20. Stuttgart, 2002. Oblong, 15 x 11 cm, 4 partbooks, c.864 pp. Line-cut of a late 16th ms transmitting motets and German songs. Hardbound, with slipcase. $165 [item no.8081]


[Ulm, Stadtbibliothek, Schermar-Bibl. Sign. 236] 2 Ms: Brieg 1565-70/Süddeutschland 1570-75.

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek, Ulm, 36. Stuttgart, 1998. Oblong, 18 x 12 cm, 4 partbooks, c.550 pp. Line-cut of the two contemporary mss containing 140 southern German lieder and dance pieces. The second ms is copied on the empty folios of the first, proceeding back to front. Hardbound with slipcase. $152 [item no.7637]


[Ulm, Stadtbibliothek, Schermar-Bibl. Sign. 236] 2 Ms: Brieg 1565-70/Süddeutschland 1570-75.

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 36. Stuttgart, 1998. Oblong, 18 x 12 cm, 4 partbooks, c.550 pp. Line-cut of the two contemporary mss containing 140 southern German lieder and dance pieces. The second ms is copied on the empty folios of the first, proceeding back to front. Wrappers. $89 [item no.7638]


[Ulm, Stadtbibliothek, Schermar-Bibl. Sign. 237] Ms. Motetten, Lieder, Chanson. Brügge(?) um 1515-1538.

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 37. Stuttgart, 1998. Oblong, 15 x 10 cm, 4 partbooks, c.675 pp. Line-cut of an early 16th-c. manuscript in partbook format (discantus, altus, tenor, bassus) believed to be of Flemish provenance. Hardbound in vellum paper, with matching slipcase. $124 [item no.7664]


Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS Vokalmusik i Handskrift 76a.

Renaissance Music in Facsimile, 19. New York, 1987. 175 pp. Halftone. Provincial songbook compiled in Southwestern France transmitting courtly chansons from the end of the 15th-c. and polyphonic arrangements of popular songs from the early 16th. Cloth. $87 [item no.2280]


Uppsala, Universitetsbibliotheket, MS Vokalmusik i Handskrift 76b. Introduction by Thomas G. MacCracken.

Renaissance Music in Facsimile, 20. New York, 1986. 23 x 31 cm, xiii, 334 pp. Halftone. One of the few survivors from early 16th-c. France. Anthology of chansons, masses and motets. Includes compositions for solo lute in a later hand. Cloth. $115 [item no.2281]


[Vatican, Bibl. Apost., Urb. lat. 1411] Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Ms. Urbinates latini 1411. Facsimile Edition.

Codices e Vaticanis Selecti, Series Minor, 9. Lucca, 2005. 14 x 22 cm, 36, 54 pp. Deluxe full-color facsimile of a small manuscript, copied in Florence, ca. 1445, with a repertory of Franco-Burgundian music. The collection may have been intended for the use of a private circle of “cognoscenti”, as is suggested by an inscription on the verso of the opening page indicating that it belonged to “Piero di Chosimo de Medicj” [d.1469] and was given by him to “Piero de Archangelo de li Bonaventuri da Urbino”. After entering the ducal library in Urbino (signalled by the presence of a large heraldic illustration on fol.2v) it remained there until the transfer of the library to the Vatican in 1657. Unusual features of the ms are its inclusion of two settings by Ciconia and Dunstable of Giustiniani’s “O rosa bella”, three works, two of them unica, by Dufay, and twelve songs by Binchois (including some of his best), marking the earliest appearance in Florence of the music of this master of courtly French chansons. There is evidence that Urb. lat. 1411 not only belonged to the Medicis but was drawn upon for music to entertain them and their guests, showing that by 1440 the pre-eminence of Franco-Burgundian music was well established in Florence. Cloth. Special OMI introductory price (reg. $260) $245 (more info... ) [item no.8620]


[Vatican, Bibl. Apost., Urb. lat. 1411] Città del Vaticano. Ms Urbinas latinas 1411. James Haar.

Lucca, 2006. 8°, 75 pp. Separate commentary (in Eng) to the facsimile. $36 [item no.8740]


[Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibl., 18810] Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Ms. 18810, c.1524, Collection of German Songs, etc. Introduction: Matthias Schneider.

Facsimile Series, I/A.3. Peer, 1987. Oblong, 21 x 15 cm, 5 partbooks, c.510 pp. Line-cut of the ms of Lucas Wagenrieder, Senfl’s copyist. Contains 6 motets, 49 German secular and 6 German spiritual works, 1 Italian secular work and 16 instrumental pieces. Composers include Hofhaimer, Isaac, Josquin, de la Rue, Senfl and others. Introduction by M. Schneider. Wrappers. [item no.1579]


[Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibl., pal. 4809] Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus 4809.

Waiblingen, c.1997. 21 x 30 cm, 282 pp. Line-cut of a choirbook, copied c.1521-34, belonging to the Netherlands court complex. An orthographic gem, the MS contains 6 Josquin masses: De venerabili sacramento, De domina, Hercules ducis ferrarie, Malhuer me bat, Faysant regretz, In dyatessaron, Ave maris stella. Hardbound, with linen spine and paper coverboards. (Few copies remaining). $145 [item no.7357]


[Wienhausen, Klosterbibl., 9] Das Wienhäuser Liederbuch herausgegeben von Heinrich Sievers.

Wolfenbüttel, 1954. 17 x 25 cm, 2 vols: 64, 82 pp. Two-color halftone of an important 15th-c. German ms discovered by Heinrich Sievers in the early 1950s. Contains 59 songs and one rhymed prose, of which 17 have Latin texts, 6 Latin-German and 36 German. 15 songs are provided with melodies (in “Hufnagel” script), giving this ms special significance among late medieval German songbooks. These melodies are considered the oldest testimony of non-liturgical music from Lower Saxony. Handsome bibliophile binding in quarter leather. Very rare. $200 [item no.1424]


MODERN EDITIONS

Airs de cour pour voix et luth (1603-1643). Transcription avec une introduction et des commentaires par André Verchaly.

Paris, 2/ 1989. 4º, lxxi, 209 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $60 [item no.6185]


Albini, Filippo. Musicali concenti. Opera II (1623)–Opera IV (1626). A cura di Lorenzo Girodo. Introduzione di Cristina Santarelli.

Corona di Delizie Musicali, 4. Lucca, 2002. 4º, xxv, 81 pp. Critical edition. For one, two and four voices with bc. Wrappers. $42 [item no.6382]


Asola, Giovanni Matteo. Le vergini a tre voci, libro primo, edidit Ioseph Vecchi.

Monumenta Veronensia, 3/1.2 (Opera Omnia Iohannis Matthaei Asulae, I/2). Bologna, 1963. 4º, xii, 33 pp. Modern edition of 11 madrigals from the Il primo libro delle Vergini, published in Venice, 1571. Wrappers. $22 [item no.5213]


Attaingnant, Pierre. Treize livres de motets parus chez Pierre Attaingnant en 1534 et 1535 réédités par A. Smijers. Premier livre.

Monaco, 1973. 4º, 220 pp. Contains 25 4-voice works, including compositions by Claudin, Mouton, Richafort, Willaert, Verdelot and Gombert. Wrappers (out of print). $86 [item no.5449]


Banchieri, Adriano. La carissima, canzona a 8 strumenti (due cori) a cura di G. Vecchi.

Monumenta Bononiensia Excerpta, C/1. Bologna, 1967. 4º, 12 pp. Wrappers. $13 [item no.5192]


Banchieri, Adriano. Due intermedii: Morte di grillo; La canzone della violina da “La Pazzia Senile”, a cura di G. Vecchi.

Monumenta Bononiensia Excerpta, B/2. Bologna, 197?. 4º, iv, 8 pp. Wrappers. $15 [item no.5191]


Banchieri, Adriano. Il metamorfosi musicale. Prodit curante Ioseph Vecchi.

Monumenta Bononiensia, 12 (Opera omnia Adriani Banchieri, I/2). Bologna, 1963. 4º, xxvii, 65 pp. Critical edition with copious notes and numerous illustrations. Wrappers. $23 [item no.5185]


Banchieri, Adriano. Missa “Paratum cor meum” a 8 voci (2 cori) (1595) a cura di E. Capaccioli.

Monumenta Bononiensia Excerpta, A/1. Bologna, 1968. 4º, vii, 30 pp. Modern edition. Introduction in It. Wrappers. $18 [item no.5186]


Barbarino da Fabriano, Bartolomeo. Canzonette e sonetti a una e due voci (Venezia 1616). A cura di Concetta Assenza. Urtext.

Collezione Musicale Marchigiana. Bologna, 2003. 4˚, xlix, 39 pp. New critical edition. 16 canzonette for 1 voice and 12 for 2 voices. Introduction in It, with Eng summary. Wrappers. $48 [item no.6469]


Bartolomeo da Ravenna. Sei villanelle (1570), a cura di G. Vecchi.

Biblioteca di “Quadrivium”, Serie Polifonica, 6. Bologna, 1975. 8º, 8 pp. Wrappers. $5 [item no.5064]


Bernardi, Stefano. Concerti academici con varie sorte di sinfonie a sei voic. 1615-1619. Trascrizioni: Flavio Cinquetti, Matteo Zenatti. Revisione, introduzione e apparato critico: Maro Materassi.

Lucca, 2008. 4º, xx, 151 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. [item no.6700]


Bernardi, Stefano. Motetti in cantilena a quattro voci con alcune canzoni per sonare con ogni sorte di stromenti, con il basso per l’organo. 1613. Edizione a cura di Marco Materassi, trascrizioni: Flavio Cinquetti.

Lucca, 2012. 4º, xxiv, 105 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $45 [item no.6972]


Bottegari, Cosimo. Il libro di canto e liuto.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, V/17. Bologna, 1978. 8º, 190 pp. (Rpt. of 1898 edition). Modern edition of canzoni and canzonette of the celebrated Florentine lutenist/singer Cosimo Bottegari (16-17th c.). Introduction by L.F. Valdrighi. Includes 12 published documents concerning the musician’s life. Wrappers. (no music). $30 [item no.5391]


Brussel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS II 270. Collectie Middelnederlandse en Latijnse Geestelijke Liedern / Collection of Middle Dutch and Latin Sacred Songs, ca.1500. Ediderunt Brundo Bouckaert, Eugeen Schreurs, Jeske van Dongen, Andries Welkenhuysen, Jeanne de Landtsheer.

Monumenta Flandriae Musica, 7. Peer, 2005. 4º, xlv, 132, 40 pp. New critical edition, with full-color facsimile. 29 Middle Dutch and Latin songs, for 2, 3 and 4 voices. Hardbound (facsimile vol. in wrappers). $95 [item no.6557]


Caro, Annibal. Corona della morte di Annibal Caro. Poesia e musica per un letterato marchigiano del cinquecento (Venezia 1568). A cura di Lucia Fava.

Collezione Musicale Marchigiana. Bologna, 2001. 4˚, xxii, 128 pp. New critical edition. Collection of madrigals a5 by various composers, honoring the death of the poet Annibal Caro. Works by Merulo, A. Gabrieli, Schieti, Comis, Anville, Adriani, Ghibellini, Raimondo, Sperindio, etc. Inroduction in It, with Eng summary. Wrappers. $70 [item no.6473]


Cattin, Giulio. Laudi quattrocentesche del cod. Veneto Marc. it. IX 145.

Biblioteca di “Quadrivium”, Serie Paleografica, 10. Bologna, 1958. 8º, 19 pp. Wrappers. $7 [item no.5037]


Cavaccio, Giovanni. Magnificat omnitonum, liber primus (1581), a cura di F. Haberl.

Monumenta Lombarda, B/1. Milan, 1965. 4º, vi, 53 pp. Modern edition with preface. Wrappers. $25 [item no.1319]


[Chanson] Anthologie de la chanson parisienne au XVIe siècle. Réunie par François Lesure, avec la collaboration de N. Bridgman, I. Cazeaux, M. Levin, K.J. Levy et D.P. Walker.

Monaco, 1979. 4º, 156 pp. Contains 48 chansons for 4, 5, 6 and 7 voices by Boyvin, Certon, Costeley, du Caurroy, Goudimel, Janequin, Le Jeune, Sermisy and others. Wrappers. $54 [item no.5450]


Collected English Lutenist Partsongs: I. Edited by David Greer.

Musica Britannica, LIII. London, 1987. 4º, xxv, 237 pp. Modern critical edition with staff and tablature notation. Works by Cavendish (14. Ayres in Tabletorie, 1598), Jones (First Booke of Songes, 1600 & Ultimum Vale, 1605), Pilkington (First Booke of Songs, 1605), Bartlet (A Book of Ayres, 1606). Wrappers. $164 [item no.7160]


Collected English Lutenist Partsongs: II. Edited by David Greer.

Musica Britannica, LIV. London, 1989. 4º, xxii, 246 pp. Modern critical edition with staff and tablature notation. Works by Danyel (Songs for the Lute, Viol & Voice, 1606), Ford (Musicke of Sundrie Kindes, 1607), Jones (Musicall Dreame, 1609), Campion (Discription of a Maske, 1607, First Booke of Ayres, c.1613, & Second Booke of Ayres, c.1613), Attey (First Booke of Ayres, 1622). Wrappers. $164 [item no.7161]


Dowland, John. Ayres for Four Voices Newly Edited by David Greer.

Musica Britannica, VI. London, 2000. 4º, xxxvii, 215 pp. Modern critical edition with staff and tablature notation. Anthology of four voice works from Dowland’s First Booke of Songes or Ayres, 1597, Second Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1600, Third and Last Booke of Songs and Aires, 1603, & A Pilgrimes Solace, 1612, 65 compositions in all. Cloth. $167 [item no.6281]


Secular Polyphony 1388-1480. Edited by David Fallows.

Musica Britannicat, XCVII. London, 2014. 4º. 368 pp. Complements and completes the repertory of early secular polyphony edited by John Stevens in Musica Britannica volumes IV, XVIII and XXXVI. Includes music from mss copied in England as well as music by apparently English composers in mss from the continental mainland. It also includes a large number of pieces for whose origin there is no clear proof, but which are presented here in an appropriate musical context on account of their sources, form and style suggesting an English origin. The contents are presented in groups of material comprising ms collections from Cambridge University Library and the Bodleian Library, music by composers including Bedyngham, Dunstaple, Frye, Galfridus de Anglia, Hothby, Morton and Robertus de Anglia, works ascribed to Alanus, music from John Baldwin's Commonplace Book, English fragments, longer works before 1440, works related to the English repertory 1450–1480, and early arrangements of O Rosa Bella. Buckram. $206 [item no.6785]


[Florence, Bibl. Naz. Centr., Panciatichi 27] Florence BNC, Ms. Panciatichi 27. Text and Context. Edited by Gioia Filocamo.

Monumenta Musica Europea, II/1. Turnhout, 2010. 4°, xx, 988 pp. Ms Panciatichi 27 is a combination of two smaller manuscripts (f.1-120; f.121-216) compiled possibly in Mantua or Ferrara at the beginning of the 16th c. Consisting of a mix of secular and sacred works and a wide range of genres (parts of masses, motets, magnificat sections, litanies, lamentations, dances, instrumental pieces, frottole, laude, chansons, etc.) its composers include Agricola, Bergomotius, Brumel, Cara, Tromboncino, Caron, Compère, Dionisius of Piacenza, Dominicus, G. Fogliano, Ghiselin, Hayne van Ghizeghem, Isaac, Japart, Josquin, Musipula, Pamphilus, Peragulfo, Pinarol, Pisano, Renaldo, Stokhem, Tinctoris, Turis, Vilet, Weerbecke, and 114 anonymous pieces. Hardbound. $230 [item no.8821]


Flori, Jacobus. Motetten en Nederlandse Polyfone Liederen / Motets and Dutch Polyphonic Songs. Leuven, 1573. Ediderunt Nele Gabriëls, Eugeen Schreurs, Maartie de Wilde, Hubert Meeus, Piet Stryckers, Demmy Verbeke.

Monumenta Flandriae Musica, 11. Peer, 2006. 4º, 139 pp. New critical edition. Collection of 24 songs for 3 voices. Hardbound. $98 [item no.6640]


Freylinghausen, Johann Anastasius. Geistreiches Gesangbuch. Edition und Kommentar. Im Auftrag der Franckeschen Stiftung zu Halle herausgegeben von Dianne Marie McMullen und Wolfgang Miersemann. Band I: Geist=reiches Gesang=Buch (Halle, vierte Ausgabe 1708). Teil 1. Text [Lied 1-395].

Tübingen, 2004. Oblong, 24 x 18 cm, 551 pp. New critical edition. Linen. $143 [item no.6641]


Freylinghausen, Johann Anastasius. Geistreiches Gesangbuch. Edition und Kommentar. Im Auftrag der Franckeschen Stiftung zu Halle herausgegeben von Dianne Marie McMullen und Wolfgang Miersemann. Band I: Geist=reiches Gesang=Buch (Halle, vierte Ausgabe 1708). Teil 2. Text [Lied 396-758].

Tübingen, 2006. Oblong, 24 x 18 cm, 641 pp. New critical edition. Linen. (in process of continuation) $188 [item no.6642]


Gabrieli, Andrea (collected works edition) Introduzione storico-critica. Gli anni di Andrea Gabrieli: biografia e cronologia, a cura di Gino Benzoni, David Bryant, Martin Morell.

Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Andrea Gabrieli; Edizione Critica, I. Milan, 1988. 4º, 104 pp. Linen. $65 [item no.5798]


Gabrieli, Andrea (collected works edition) Il secondo libro di madrigali a cinque voci insieme doi a sei et uno dialogo a otto. Venezia, li figliuoli di Antonio Gardano 1570. A cura di David Butchart.

Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Andrea Gabrieli; Edizione Critica, 3. Milan, 1996. 4º, 286 pp. Linen. $216 [item no.6049]


Gabrieli, Andrea (collected works edition) Libro primo de madrigali a tre voci. Venezia, li figliuoli di Antonio Gardano 1575 a cura di Alessandra Andreotti.

Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Andrea Gabrieli; Edizione Critica, 6. Milan, 1999. 4º, 108 pp. Linen. $118 [item no.6275]


Gabrieli, Andrea (collected works edition) Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quatuor vocum omnibus sanctorum solemnitatibus deservientium a cura di David Bryant e Elena Quaranta.

Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Andrea Gabrieli; Edizione Critica, 7. Milan, 2005. 4º, 148 pp. Linen. $124 [item no.6707]


Gabrieli, Andrea (collected works edition) Il secondo libro de madrigali a sei voci (1580) a cura di Franco Colussi.

Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Andrea Gabrieli; Edizione Critica, 8. Milan, 2001. 4º, 184 pp. Linen. $191 [item no.6708]


Gabrieli, Andrea (collected works edition) Psalmi Davidici, qui poenitentiales nuncupantur, tum omnis generis instrumentorum, tum ad vocis modulationem accommodati, sex vocum. Venezia, Angelo Gardano 1583, a cura di Denis Arnold e David Bryant.

Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Andrea Gabrieli; Edizione Critica, 9. Milan, 1988. 4º, 189 pp. Linen. $108 [item no.5799]


Gabrieli, Andrea (collected works edition) Concerti di Andrea, et di Gio: Gabrieli organisti della Sereniss. Sig. di Venetia. Continenti musica di chiesa, madrigali, et altro, per voci, et stromenti musicali; à 6. 7. 8. 10. 12. et 16. . . Libro 1. et 2. . . Venezia, Angelo Gardano 1587. A cura d David Bryant. Tomo I.

Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Andrea Gabrieli; Edizione Critica, 11/1. Milan, 1989. 4º, 319 pp. Linen. $158 [item no.5800]


Gabrieli, Andrea (collected works edition) Concerti di Andrea, et di Gio: Gabrieli organisti della Sereniss. Sig. di Venetia. Continenti musica di chiesa, madrigali, et altro, per voci, et stromenti musicali; à 6. 7. 8. 10. 12. et 16. . . Libro 1. et 2. . . Venezia,, Angelo Gardano 1587. A cura d David Bryant. Tomo II.

Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Andrea Gabrieli; Edizione Critica, 11/2. Milan, 1989. 4º, 320 pp. Linen. $158 [item no.5801]


Gabrieli, Andrea (collected works edition) Cori per Edipo Tiranno (1588). Con solennissimo apparato. Venezia, Angelo Gardano 1588; a cura di Nino Pirrotta.

Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Andrea Gabrieli; Edizione Critica, 12. Milan, 1995. 4º, 138 pp. Linen. $108 [item no.6709]


Gabrieli, Andrea (collected works edition) Le composizioni vocali di Andrea Gabrieli in intavolature per tastiera e liuto, a cura di Dinko Fabris. Tomo I (“L’intavolatura di Torino”); Riproduzione dell’originale.

Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Andrea Gabrieli; Edizione Critica, 17/1. Milan, 1993. 4º (upright & oblong), 2 vols, 200, 131 pp. Edition in linen, facsimile in wrappers. $192 [item no.5802]


Gabucci, Giulio Cesare. Defecit gaudium motectum octonis vocibus decantandum (1589), prodit curante Ioseph Vecchi.

Monumenta Lombarda Excerpta, 1. Milan, 1964. 4º, i, 6 pp. Modern edition with preface. Wrappers. $11 [item no.1322]


Gabucci, Giulio Cesare. Sperent in te omnes, mottetto a 5 voci (1586).

Biblioteca di “Quadrivium”, Serie Polifonica, 1. Bologna, 1959. 8º, 7 pp. Wrappers. $18 [item no.5059]


Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo. Balletti a tre voci (1594) a cura di G. Vecchi.

Monumenta Lombarda Excerpta, A/2. Bologna, 1969. 4º, xi, 37 pp. Modern edition of 16 balletti in two versions: for 3 voices with lute accompaniment (tablature and staff notation), and for 1 voice and lute accompaniment (in staff notation). Wrappers. $29 [item no.5198]


Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo. Canzonette a tre voci. Libro secondo (1595), a cura di Giuseppe Vecchi.

Biblioteca Musicale della Rinascenza: [Corpus Mensurabilis, 4]. Bologna, 1959. 8º, 34 pp. Modern edition. Collection of 10 canzonettas. Wrappers. $20 [item no.5020]


Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo. Canzonette a tre voci, libro primo, libro secondo. A cura di Isabella Grisanti Grassi.

Didattica della Filologia Musicale, III / “I Testi” I-2002. Lucca, 2002. 4º, xxxviii, 57 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $48 [item no.6378]


Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo. Salmi per i vespri e magnificat a quattro voci. A cura di Ottavio Beretta.

Lucca, 2002. 4º, xxi, 71 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. [item no.6652]


Gerle, Hans. Tabulature pour les luths, Nuremberg, Formschneider, 1533. I: Préludes. Transcription automatique par le Groupe E.R.A.T.T.O du C.N.R.S. Études musicoloques par Hélène Charnassé et Raymond Meylan; Réalisation informatique par Henri Ducasse.

Paris, 1975. 4º, xxiii, 47 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $24 [item no.6187]


Gerle, Hans. Tabulature pour les luths, Nuremberg, Formschneider, 1533. II: Pièces allemandes. Transcription automatique par le Groupe E.R.A.T.T.O du C.N.R.S. Études musicoloques par Hélène Charnassé et Raymond Meylan; Réalisation informatique par Henri Ducasse.

Paris, 1976. 4º, xvi, 84 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $24 [item no.6188]


Gerle, Hans. Tabulature pour les luths, Nuremberg, Formschneider, 1533. III: Chansons françaises et trios. Transcription automatique par le Groupe E.R.A.T.T.O du C.N.R.S. Études musicoloques par Hélène Charnassé et Raymond Meylan; Réalisation informatiqiue par Henri Ducasse.

Paris, 1976. 4º, xvi, 49 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $24 [item no.6189]


Gerle, Hans. Tabulature pour les luths, Nuremberg, Formschneider, 1533. IV: Psaumes et motets latins a troix voix. Transcription automatique par le Groupe E.R.A.T.T.O du C.N.R.S. Études musicoloques par Hélène Charnassé et Raymond Meylan; Réalisation informatique par Henri Ducasse.

Paris, 1977. 4º, xiv, 85 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $24 [item no.6190]


Gerle, Hans. Tabulature pour les luths, Nuremberg, Formschneider, 1533. V: Psaumes et motets latins a IV voix. Transcription automatique par le Groupe E.R.A.T.T.O du C.N.R.S. Études musicoloques par Hélène Charnassé et Raymond Meylan; Réalisation informatique par Henri Ducasse.

Paris, 1978. 4º, xi, 40 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $24 [item no.6191]


Giacobbi, Girolamo. Motecta cum quinque vocibus.

Monumenta Bononiensia, 5. Bologna, 1962. 4º, viii, 24 pp. Wrappers. $15 [item no.5182]


Giordani, Giuseppe. Lamentazioni e miserere. Editio maior. Edizione critica a cura di Ugo Gironacci e Italo Vescovo.

Opera Omnia Giuseppe Giordani (Giordaniello), I/3. Lucca, 2009. 4º, xlii, 225 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $56 [item no.6959]


Giordani, Giuseppe. Tantum ergo I e II in mi bemolle maggiore a cura di Francesco Paolo Russo (edizione critica), with English commentary.

Opera Omnia Giuseppe Giordani (Giordaniello), I/2. Lucca, 2008. 4º, xxvii, 108 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $56 [item no.6744]


Giordani, Giuseppe. Tantum ergo I e II in mi bemolle maggiore. Edizione critica a cura di Francesco Paolo Russo.

Opera Omnia Giuseppe Giordani (Giordaniello), II/1. Lucca, 2008. 4º, xxvii, 108 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $40 [item no.6996]


Giordani, Giuseppe. Te deum in si bemolle maggiore. Inno. Edizione critica a cura di Ugo Gironacci e Italo Vescovo.

Opera Omnia Giuseppe Giordani (Giordaniello), I/4. Lucca, 2009. 4º, xxxi, 147 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $56 [item no.6965]


Giordani, Giuseppe. Veni sponsa Christi. Antifona. Edizione critica a cura di Ugo Gironacci e Italo Vescovo.

Opera Omnia Giuseppe Giordani (Giordaniello), II/1. Lucca, 2006. 4º, xxiv, 19 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $40 [item no.6637]


Grossi da Viadana, Lodovico. Canzonette a tre voci (1594), a cura di G. Vecchi.

Monumenta Lombarda, A/1. Milan, 1965. 4º, x, 29 pp. Modern edition with preface. Wrappers. $16 [item no.5196]


Guédron, Pierre. Les airs de cour; édition de Georgie Durosoir ; transcription des tablatures de luth par Éric Bellocq ; avant-propos de Jean-Pierre Babelon.

Versailles, 2009. 8º, xcix, 719 pp. Works for 4-5 solo voices, many also intabulated for solo voice and lute. Lute part given in tablature and staff notation. Introduction and critical notes in French with English translation; bibliographical notes that proceed each air given in French only. Wrappers. $162 [item no.6792]


Ingegneri, Marc’Antonio. Missa “Gustate et videte” cum 5 vocibus (1573), prodit curante Ioseph Vecchi.

Monumenta Veronensia Excerpta, A/1. Verona, 1967. 4º, viii, 34 pp. Practical edition. Wrappers. $15 [item no.5214]


Ingegneri, Marc’Antonio (complete works) Liber primus missarum cum quinque et octo vocibus. Edited by Rodobaldo Tibaldi.

Opera Omnia Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Edizione Critica, I/1. Lucca, 1994. 4º, xxxix, 182 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $42 [item no.5668]


Ingegneri, Marc’Antonio (complete works) Sacrae cantiones cum quinque vocibus liber primus. Edited by Daniele Sabaino.

Opera Omnia Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Edizione Critica, I/4. Lucca, 2010. 4º, lxxxiii, 126 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $44 [item no.6944]


Ingegneri, Marc’Antonio (complete works) Sacrae cantiones senis vocibus decantandae, 1591. Edited by Daniele Sabaino.

Opera Omnia Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Edizione Critica, I/5. Lucca, 1994. 4º, xxx, 140 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $42 [item no.5670]


Ingegneri, Marc’Antonio (complete works) Liber secundus hymnorum. A cura di / Edited by Marina Toffetti.

Opera Omnia Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Edizione Critica, I/8. Lucca, 2002. 4º, cviii, 94 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $42 [item no.5671]


Ingegneri, Marc’Antonio (complete works) Il primo libro de’ madrigali a quattro voci. Edited by Lucia Marchi.

Opera Omnia Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Edizione Critica, II/1. Lucca, 2009. 4º, lvi, 124 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $48 [item no.6851]


Ingegneri, Marc’Antonio (complete works) Il secondo libro de’ madrigali a quattro voci. Edited by Maria Teresa Rosa-Barezzani and Mila De Santis.

Opera Omnia Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Edizione Critica, II/2. Lucca, 1999. 4º, lii, 106 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $42 [item no.6254]


Ingegneri, Marc’Antonio (complete works) Il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, 1580. Edited by Marco Mangani.

Opera Omnia Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Edizione Critica, II/3. Lucca, 1994. 4º, xviii, 80 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $42 [item no.5669]


Ingegneri, Marc’Antonio (complete works) V libro di madrigali a 5 voci. A cura / Edited by Gloria Joriini e Marco Mangani.

Opera Omnia Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Edizione Critica, II/5. Lucca, 2006. 4º, liii, 84 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $39 [item no.6695]


Janequin, Clément. Complete Chansons. I: Chansons 1-17. Edited by A. Tillman and François Lesure.

Monaco, 1983. 4º, 196 pp. Wrappers. $69 [item no.5442]


Janequin, Clément. Complete Chansons. II: Chansons 18-73. Edited by A. Tillman and François Lesure.

Monaco, 1983. 4º, 246 pp. Wrappers. $69 [item no.5443]


Janequin, Clément. Complete Chansons. III: Chansons 74-114. Edited by A. Tillman and François Lesure.

Monaco, 1983. 4º, 228 pp. Wrappers. $69 [item no.5444]


Janequin, Clément. Complete Chansons. IV: Chansons 115-170. Edited by A. Tillman and François Lesure.

Monaco, 1983. 4º, 220 pp. Wrappers. $69 [item no.5445]


Janequin, Clément. Complete Chansons. V: Chansons 171-219. Edited by A. Tillman and François Lesure.

Monaco, 1983. 4º, 216 pp. Wrappers. $69 [item no.5446]


Janequin, Clément. Complete Chansons. VI: Chansons 220-254. Edited by A. Tillman and François Lesure.

Monaco, 1983. 4º, 204 pp. Wrappers. $69 [item no.5447]


Janequin, Clément. Complete Chansons (6 Volumes, 254 Chansons). Edited by A. Tillman and François Lesure.

Monaco, 1983. 4º, 6 vols, 1310 pp. Wrappers. $345 [item no.5448]


Jeppesen, Knud. Die mehrstimmige italienische Laude um 1500.

Biblioteca Storico Giuridica e Artistico Letteraria: Letteratura Music Teatro, 16. Bologna, 1971. 4º, xcviii, 170 pp. (Rpt. of Leipzig, 1935 edition). Modern edition of 98 Italian laudes, together with historical and stylistic study. Cloth. $70 [item no.5103]


Lanier, Nicholas. The Complete Works. Edited by Gordon J. Callon.

Boethius Editions, 11. Hereford, 1994. 4º, xxiv, 198 pp. Modern edition with critical apparatus and bibliography. Wrappers. $58 [item no.5964]


Le Roy, Adrian, and Robert Ballard. Second livre d’airs des plus excelants musiciens de nostre tems. Reduiz à quatre parties par M. Di. Le Blannc. Paris, 1579 / Airs de court. Mis en musique à 4. & 5. parties. De plusieurs autheurs. Paris, 1597. Edited by Jane A. Bernstein.

The Sixteenth-Century Chanson, 3. New York, 1995. 4º, 182 pp. Modern edition in score format of 81 airs, mostly for 4 voices. Cloth. $65 [item no.6931]


Libro de diferentes cifras (1705).

Cifras para Tañer, 1. Madrid, 2008. 20 x 29 cm, xxiv, 73 pp. Study and transcription by Francisco Alfonso Valdivia. Preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, this important manuscript for 5-string guitar dated 1705 contains 107 anonymous pieces, with the exception of one attributed to Francesco Corbetta. Gaspar Sanz is well represented, both in the literal copy of the Instucción de música as in the reuse of some of its differences; several pieces are related to works of Santiago de Murcia which could mark the first cronological source of this guitarist. There are many French inpired dances together with the genuinely Spanish ones. Wrappers. $28 [item no.6875]


Madrigali di G.M. Asola, P. Bellasio, S. Bernardi.

Madrigalisti Veronesi, 1. Bologna, 1952. 8º, 40 pp. Wrappers. $13 [item no.5241]


Marenzio, Luca. Tre madrigali petrarcheschi a 4 voci (Non al suo amante; Or vedi, Amor; Nova angeletta), a cura di V. Gibelli.

Monumenta Lombarda Excerpta, 3. Bologna, 197?. 8º, 16 pp. Wrappers. $13 [item no.5202]


Matti, Fra Mauro. Il primo libro di madrigali a quattro voci, 1571. Introduzione ed edizione moderna: Silvio Mariotti.

Lucca, 1999. 4º, 96 pp. New critical edition. Wrappers. $42 [item no.6252]


Milán, Luis. Libro de música de vihuela de mano intitulado del maestro. Compuesto por Luys Milan. In der Originalnotation und einer Übertragung herausgegeben von Leo Schrade.

Publikationen Älterer Musik, II. Hildesheim, 1976. 17 x 23 cm, xxx, 382 pp. (Rpt. of Leipzig, 1927 edition). Diplomatic transcription of the original tablature, side by side with a modern edition in staff notation. Wrappers. $147 [item no.6193]


Monteverdi, Claudio. Madrigali, Libro I (Venezia 1587). A cura di Andrea Bornstein. Urtext.

Claudio Monteverdi, Madrigali, Opera Completa, 1. Bologna, 2001. 4˚, viii, 75 pp. New critical edition. Wrappers. $58 [item no.6460]


Monteverdi, Claudio. Madrigali, Libro II (Venezia 1590). A cura di Andrea Bornstein. Urtext.

Claudio Monteverdi, Madrigali, Opera Completa, 2. Bologna, 1998. 4˚, viii, 112 pp. New critical edition. Wrappers. $64 [item no.6461]


Monteverdi, Claudio. Madrigali, Libro III (Venezia 1592). A cura di Andrea Bornstein. Urtext.

Claudio Monteverdi, Madrigali, Opera Completa, 3. Bologna, 2002. 4˚, vi, 113 pp. New critical edition. Wrappers. $64 [item no.6462]


Monteverdi, Claudio. Madrigali, Libro IV (Venezia 1603). A cura di Andrea Bornstein. Urtext.

Claudio Monteverdi, Madrigali, Opera Completa, 4. Bologna, 1998. 4˚, x, 94 pp. New critical edition. Wrappers. $61 [item no.6463]


Monteverdi, Claudio. Madrigali, Libro V (Venezia 1605). A cura di Andrea Bornstein. Urtext.

Claudio Monteverdi, Madrigali, Opera Completa, 5. Bologna, 2003. 4˚, xvi, 105 pp. New critical edition. Wrappers. $65 [item no.6464]


Moulinié, Etienne. Meslanges de subjets chrestiens & motet “Flores apparuerunt”. Édition de Jean Duron avec une collaboration musicale de Gérard Geay uet un avant-propos de Denise Launay.

Monumentales, IV.1. Versailles, 1996. 4º, cxviii, xxiii, 421 pp. New critical edition. Hardbound. $100 [item no.6571]


Muziek uit de Collegiale Kerk van Tongeren, ca.1300-1600. / Music from the Collegiate Church in Tongeren. Ediderit: Eugeen Schreurs.

Monumenta Flandriae Musica, 3. Peer, 2000. 4º, l, 98 pp. Modern edition of a selection of ten works from composer’s associated with the Tongeren Collegiate Church of Our Lady. Includes five anonymous works from the 14-16th centuries and works by Johannes Rondelli, Nicolaus Geszin, D. Curingen, & Hubertus Naich. Hardbound. $74 [item no.6334]


I Musici di Roma e il madrigali a cura di Nino Pirrotta. Dolci Affetti (1582). Introduzione e trascrizione di Nino Pirrotta. Le Gioie (1589). Introduzione e trascrizione di Giuliana Gialdroni.

L’Arte Armonica, II/1. Lucca, 1993. 4º, xlvii, 186 pp. Critical edition. Two important collections of madrigals by the most famous composers active in Rome in the second half of the 16th c.: Anerio, Bellasio, Marenzio, Maque, G.M. Nanino, Palestrina, Quagliati, Stabile, Zoilo. They were all members of the “Compagnia dei Musici di Roma”, forerunner of the present Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Wrappers. $32 [item no.5626]


[Petrucci] Ottaviano Petrucci. Canti B numero cinquanta. Venice, 1502. Edited by Helen Hewitt with an Introduction by Edward E. Lowinsky. Texts Edited and Annotated by Morton W. Briggs. Translated by Norman B. Spector.

Monuments of Renaissance Music, II. Chicago, 1967. 27 x 37 cm, xvii, 242 pp. Critical edition. Cloth. Mint condition. $225 [item no.6860]


[Petrucci, Ottaviano] Ottaviano Petrucci. Frottole, Buch I und IV. Nach den Erstlingsdrucken von 1505 und 1505 (?) herausgegeben von Rudolf Schwartz.

Publikationen Älterer Musik, VIII. Hildesheim, 1967. 17 x 23 cm, lii, 101 pp. (Rpt. of Leipzig, 1935 edition). Critical edition (transcription with movable C clefs). Respectively 63 and 92 compositions. Wrappers. $51 [item no.6402]


Piccioni, Giovanni. Il pastor fido musicale (1602), quattro madrigali a 5 voci, a cura di P. Ledda.

Monumenta Romandiola Excerpta, 1. Bologna, 1985. 4º, 20 pp. Wrappers. $18 [item no.5206]


Porta, Costanzo. Motecta quaedam cum quattuor vocibus, a cura di B. Ippolito.

Monumenta Lombarda Excerpta, 2. Milan, 1964. 4º, vii, 16 pp. . $13 [item no.5201]


Quadris, Johannis de. Opera, prodeunt curante Iulio Cattin.

Monumenta Veneta, 2. Bologna, 1972. 4º, xi, 85, with 4 pp. Critical edition with commentary. 18 compositions, all for 2 voices with the exception of one magnificat setting for 4 voices. Wrappers. $22 [item no.5209]


Radesca, Enrico. Madrigali a cinque et a otto voci. Con il basso continuo e partito da sonare per chi piacerà del Radesca di Foggia, Maestro di Cappella nella metropolitana di Torino & della altezze serenissime di Savoia, libro primo. A cura di Rosy Moffa.

Opera Omnia Enrico Radesca di Foggia, III. Lucca, 2002. 4º, xxxi, 219 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $64 [item no.6369]


Radesca, Enrico. Thesoro amoroso. Musiche a una, à due & à tre voci. Opera decima. A cura di Marco Giuliani.

Opera Omnia Enrico Radesca di Foggia, IV. Lucca, 2002. 4º, l, 128 pp. Critical edition. Wrappers. $64 [item no.6480]


Robledo, Melchor. Opera polyphonica I: mises, pasiones, motetes. Presentación y transcripción por Pedro Calahorra.

Zaragoza, 1986. 4º, 194 pp. Wrappers. $10 [item no.5470]


Robledo, Melchor. Opera polyphonica II: oficio coral: antífonas, cánticos, himnos, invitatorios, salmos, versículos, composiciones en castellano. Presentación y transcripción por Pedro Calahorra.

Zaragoza, 1988. 4º, 245 pp. Wrappers. $10 [item no.5471]


Romano, Antonio. Opera, prodeunt curante F. Alberto Gallo.

Monumenta Veneta, 1. Bologna, 1965. 4º, xvi, 42, with 3 pp. Modern edition with preface and 5 facsimiles. Wrappers. $15 [item no.5208]


Ruffo, Vincenzo. Salmi suavissimi et devotissimi a cinque voci. Introduzione/introduction: Mauro Casadei Turroni Monti; trascrizione/transcriptions: Carlo Berlese.

Lucca, 1999. 4º, 115 pp. New critical edition. Wrappers. $42 [item no.6253]


[Spain] La tracición polifónica del canto del “Passio” en Aragón. Pasiones de los siglos XV, XVI y XVII de las catedrales de Albarracín (Teruel), Gerona, Segorbe (Castellón) y Zaragoza. Transcripción y estudio: Jóse V. González Valle.

Polifonia Aragonesa, VI. Zaragoza, 1990. 4º, 166 pp. Wrappers. $14 [item no.5482]


Stefani, Giovanni. Affetti amorosi di Giovanni Stefani.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/24. Bologna, 1969. 8º, 70 pp. (Rpt. of Ricordi, c.1890 edition). Modern edition in score--voice, guitar & bass--of 32 numbers. Includes 5 pages in facsimile from the original 1621 edition. Hardbound. $18 [item no.5370]


Tritonio, Pietro. Melopoiae sive harmoniae tetracenticae (1507), a cura di G. Vecchi.

Biblioteca Musicale della Rinascenza: Corpus Mensurabilis, 1. Bologna, 1967. 8º, 48 pp. Wrappers. $18 [item no.5140]


Utendal, Alexander. Motetten / Motets. Ediderit Ignace Bossuyt.

Monumenta Flandriae Musica, 5. Peer, 1999. 4º, lvi, 137 pp. New critical edition. Hardbound. $48 [item no.6274]


Vecchi, Orazio. L’Amfiparnaso. Il testo letterario e il testo musicale. A cura di Renzo Bez.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/100. Bologna, 2007. 4°, 50, 94 pp. New critical edition (score) of the musical comedy printed by Orazio Vecchi in 1597. This polyphonic masterpiece owes part of its success over the centuries to its attempt to unite the two Parnassus’s, that of music and that of comic poetry, to which the allegorical title (”double Parnassus”) explicitly alludes. Wrappers. $63 [item no.8825]


Vecchi, Oratio. Arie, canzonette, e balli a tre, a quattro e a cinque voci con liuto di Horatio Vecchi [a cura di] Oscar Chilesotti.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, IV/26. Bologna, 1968. 17 x 25 cm, 51 pp. (Rpt. of Ricordi, 1892 edition). Modern edition in full score format with lute accompaniment. Hardbound. [item no.5372]


MONOGRAPHS

[Alamire Foundation] Orlandus Lassus and His Time: Colloquium Proceedings, Antwerpen 24-26.08.1994. General Editors, Ignace Bossuyt, Eugeen Schreurs.

Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation, 1. Peer, 1996. 8˚, 432 pp. Congress report. Contributions by Ballman, Cardamone, de Groote, Dobbins, Egan-Buffet, Freedman, Haar, Haenen, Haggh, Harrán, His, Just, Lindell, Luisi, Moens, Rasch, Schreurs, Schmid, Weller, & Zager. Wrappers. [item no.5892]


[Alamire Foundation] Music Fragments and Manuscripts in the Low Countries / Alta Capella / Music Printing in Antwerp and Europe in the 16th Century. Colloquium Proceedings, Alden Biezen 23.06.1995, Alden Biezen 24.06.1995, Antwerpen 23-25.08.1995.

Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation, 2. Peer, 1997. 8º, 432 pp. Congress reports for three separate events the topics ranging from the discovery of late medieval fragments to the examination of the 16th c. printing houses. Wrappers. $62 [item no.6059]


[Alamire Foundation] Giaches de Wert (1535-1596) and His Time. Migration of Musicians to and from the Low Countries (c.1400-1600) Colloquium Proceedings, Antwerpen 26-27 August 1996. Editor: Eugeen Schreurs, Bruno Bouckaert.

Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation, 3. Peer, 1999. 8º, 432 pp. Congress report. Contributions by Newcomb, Fenlon, Nutter, Hoekstra, Haar, Monteyne, Crawford, Macey, Borghetti, and Smith. Introduction by Eugeen Schreurs. Wrappers. [item no.6229]


[Alamire Foundation] The Di Martinelli Music Collection (KULeuven, University Archives) / Musical Life in Collegiate Churches in the Low Countries and Europe / Chant and Polyphony. Colloquium Proceedings Leuven 02.02.1998, 25.10.1998, 21-122.11.1999.

Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation, 4. Peer, 2000. 8º, 432 pp. Congress report. Articles by Steelandt, Schreurs, Nelissen, Huybens, Verspeurt, Boorman, Rawson; Loos, Spiessens, Reynaud, Taylor, Vanscheeuwijck; Goudesenne, Puca, Schier, Rasch, Rizarev, Magro, Colin, Olson, O’Connor, Wagstaff, & Hardie. Wrappers. $68 [item no.6367]


[Alamire Foundation] The Burgundian-Habsburg Court Complex of Music Manuscripts (1500-1535) and the Workshop of Petrus Alamire. Colloquium Proceedings, Leuven, 25-28 November 1999. General Editors: Bruno Bouckaert, Eugeen Schreurs.

Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation, 5. Leuven-Neerpelt, 2003. 8º, 432 pp. Congress report. Articles by Kellman, Staehelin, Schmidt-Beste, Friebel, Kiel, Boorman, Meconi, Dekeyzer, Thoss, Blackburn, Haggh, Roelvink, Duffy, Heidrich, Urquhart, Fallows, Schreurs, Bouckaert, Picker, Fitch, Borghetti, Elders, Just, & MacCracken. Wrappers. [item no.6477]


[Alamire Foundation] Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation 6. [Proceedings of “Bruges-Venice: Music in Two Urban Mosaics”, Bruges, 14-16 December 2001; and part I of the 17th International Congress of the International Musicological Society, Leuven, 1-7 August 2002].

Leuven-Neerpelt, 2008. 8º, 432 pp. Contents - Mary E. Wolinski: Drinking Motets in Medieval Artois and Flanders; Julie E. Cumming: From Variety to Repetition: The Birth of Imitative Polyphony; Eric Rice: The Role of Acoustics in the Performance of Renaissance Polyphony at the Collegiate Church of Saint Mary in Aachen; Katelijne Schiltz: Polyphony and Word-Sound in Adrian Willaert’s Laus Tibi Sacra Rubens; Luminita Florea: Virtus Scriptoris: Steps towards a Typology of Illustration Borrowing in Music Theory Treatises of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance; C. Matthew Balensuela: Ut hec te figura docet: The Transformation of Music Theory Illustrations from Manuscripts to Print; Thomas Holme Hansen: Change and Continuity in Twentieth-Century Textbooks on Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint; Donna G. Cardamone Jackson: Orlando di Lasso et al.: A New Reading of the Roman Villanella Book (1555); Peter Bergquist: The Two Editions of Lasso’s Selectissimae Cantiones, 1568 and 1579; Richard Freedman: Who Owned Lasso’s Chansons?; Bernhold Schmid: ... Nec non tyronibus quàm eius artis peritioribus summopere inservientes. Zur gedrucktenÜberlieferung von Lassos Bicinien; Philippe Canguilhem: Musique et politique à Florence dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle; Le statut du madrigal à la lumière de nouvelles sources; Susan Lewis Hammond: Selling the Madrigal: Pierre Phalèse II and the Four ‘Antwerp Anthologies’. Wrappers. $69 [item no.6686]


[Alamire Foundation] Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation 7. [Proceedings of part II of the 17th International Congress of the International Musicological Society, Leuven, 1-7 August 2002].

Leuven-Neerpelt, 2008. 8º, 432 pp. Contents - Jean-François Goudesenne: Contexte historique, politique et composition des Historiae en belgica secunda avant l’an mil; Theodore Karp: Two Belgian Traditions for the Post–Tridentine Mass Proper; Siegwart Reichwald: Brumel’s Missa et ecce terrae motus: An Oddity? Andrew Kirkman: Personal Endowments: The Economic Engine of the ‘Cyclic’ Mass? Paul A. Merkley: Music in the Demand-Based Economy in Nothern Italy in the Late Fifteenth Century; Emilio Ros-Fábregas: Flemish Polyphony in Sixteenth-Century Iberian Manuscripts; Antonio Ezquerro-Esteban: Sources for Works by Orlando di Lasso in Spain; Jeske Van Dongen: Songs of the Devoot ende profitelijck boecxken (Antwerp, 1539) Found in Different Sources: Deviation in Melody and Lyrics in Hoe luyde sanc die leeraer op der tinnen; Pieter Andriessen: Carel and Philips Hacquart Updating the Biography; Keith Polk: Patronage of Instrumental Music in Bruges in the Late Middle Ages; Eugeen Schreurs: Music for Canons, Emperors, Dukes and Prince Bishops in the Collegiate Church of Maastricht (c.1450–1520). An Updated Overview and Some Samples; Susan Parisi : The Brussels–Mantua Connection. Vincenzo Gonzaga’s State Voyages to the Low Countries in 1599 and 1608; Hendrik Schulze: Love and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Opera: On the Differences between the Images of Republican and Monarchist Rulers; Olivia Wahnon De Oliveira: La circulation de la musique à Liège au XVIIIe siècle. Wrappers. $69 [item no.6687]


Alfieri, Edera. La cappella musicale di Loreto dalle origini a Costanzo Porta (1507-1574).

Biblioteca di “Quadrivium”, Note d’Archivio: Bibliografica, Biografia e Storia, 1. Bologna, 1970. 8º, 136 pp. Detailed documentary study of musical life in Loreto. Wrappers. $32 [item no.5022]


Rossi, Francesco Rocco. De musica mensurabili. Manuale di notazione rinascimentale.

Lucca, 2013. 17 x 24 cm, 11 + 236 pp. Wrappers. $41 [item no.6781]


Argentini, Alessandro & Lucia Ludovica de Nardo. Fonti della musica sacra: testi e incisioni discografiche

Quaderni del Laboratorio Mirage, [2]. Lucca, 2011. 7 x 24 cm, 236 pp. Sacred music and the recording industry. Wrappers. $49 [item no.6987]


Assenza, Concetta. La canzonetta dal 1570 al 1615.

Quaderni di Musica/Realtà, 34. Lucca, 1997. 8º, 268 pp. Wrappers. $30 [item no.5995]


Barandoni, Stefano & Paola Raffaelli. L’archivio musicale della Chiesa Conventuale dei Santo Stefano di Pisa. Storia e catalogo.

Studi Musicali Toscani, 3. Lucca, 1994. 8º, 315 pp. Wrappers. $35 [item no.5779]


Beroaldo, F. Nuptiae bentivolorum (1480).

Biblioteca Storico Giuridica e Artistico Letteraria: Letteratura Musica Teatro, 101 (= Studi e Testi Bolognesi, 1). Bologna, 1977. 8º, 32 pp. Wrappers. $11 [item no.5134]


Besseler, Heinrich & Peter Gülke. Schriftbild der mehrstimmigen Musik.

Musikgeschichte in Bildern, III/5. Leipzig, 1973. 25 x 35 cm, 184, 95 illus pp. Examination of the notation of polyphonic music c.1150-1650. Commentary, together with partial transcriptions. Bibliography. Linen. $48 [item no.1576]


Bianco, Carla. Il tempio armonico. Giovanni Giovenale Ancina e le musiche devozionali nel contesto internazionale del suo tempo. Convegno Internazionale di Studi organizzato dall’Isituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, Saluzzo—Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale 8-10 ottobre 2004. A cura di Carla Bianco.

Le Chevalier Errant, Studi sulla degli Antichi Stati Sabaudi e del Piemonte, 5. Lucca, 2006. 8º, xvi, 446 pp, 52 plates. Conference proceedings devoted to the music of Giovanni Giovenale Ancina (1545-1604) and his contemporaries. Wrappers. $80 [item no.6636]


Blume, Friedrich. Il rinascimento (voce tradotta dall’Enciclopedia M.G.G.).

Biblioteca di “Quadrivium”, Studi e Ricerche di Storia della Musica, 2. Bologna, 1972. 8º, 86 pp. Wrappers. $17 [item no.5029]


Bowles, Edmund A. Musikleben im 15. Jahrhundert.

Musikgeschichte in Bildern, III/8. Leipzig, 1977. 24 x 35 cm, 191, with 160 illus pp. One of the finest iconographies ever assembled on the Renaissance, dealing with all aspects of music making. In Ger. Bibliography. Linen. $50 [item no.2373]


Bonaventura, Arnaldo. Boccaccio e la musica.

Biblioteca Storico Giuridica e Artistico Letteraria: Letteratura Musica Teatro, 4. Bologna, 1975. 8º, 44 pp. (Rpt. of 1914 edition). Preface by Giuseppe Vecchi. Wrappers. $16 [item no.5092]


Bonaventura, Arnaldo. Dante e la musica.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, V/13. Bologna, 1978. 8º, 337 pp. (Rpt. of Livorno, 1904 edition). Hardbound. $40 [item no.5407]


Bouckaert, Bruno. Cantus 21. Mémoires du chant. Le livre de musique d’Isidore de Séville à Edmond de Coussemaker. Sous la direction de Bruno Bouckaert. Contributeurs: Florence Albaret, Véronique Denolf, Sandrine Dumont, Nele Gabriëls, Valérie Guéant, Barbara Haggh-Huglo, Thiphaine Hébert, Sofie Taes, Bruno Bouckaert, Johan Eeckeloo, Michel Huglo, Gilbert Huybens, Pierre-Jacques Lamblin, Christian Meyer, Damien Top.

Cantus 21: Patrimoine Musical du Nord de la France. Neerpelt, 2007. 24 x 29 cm, 240pp. From 19 Nov. 2005 to 18 Feb. 2006 four exhibitions, entitled “Cantus21. Patrimoine musical du Nord de la France”, were organized in Cambrai (Maison Falleur/Médiathèque municipale), Douai (Bibl. municipale and Musée de la Chartreuse) and Bailleul (Musée Benoît-De-Puydt). This exceptionally beautiful and illustrated publication is the scholarly outcome of this event containing detailed descriptions of, and commentaries on more than 150 manuscripts, prints, treatises and archival documents. 2 sections are dedicated mainly to plainchant sources and liturgical manuscripts, one elaborates on sources of polyphony and music theory from the North of France and a final section is dedicated to Charles Edmond Henri de Coussemaker (1805-1876), who was a pioneer in listing and studying music sources from the North of France. A lot of attention is paid to his vast private collection (more than 1600 books, prints and mss) and to the large number of pieces which found their way into the collections of the Brussels Royal Library and the Library of the Brussels Royal Conservatory. Wrappers. $59 (more info... ) [item no.8928]


[Busse Berger, Anna Maria and Massimiliano Rossi] Memory and Invention. Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Art and Music. Acts of an International Conference (Florence, Villa I Tatti, May 11, 2006). Edited by Anna Maria Busse Berger and Massimiliano Rossi.

Villa i Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 24. Florence, 2009. 8º, xix, 175 pp. The art of memory—ars memorativa—profoundly impacted Western culture throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ever since Aby Warburg inscribed the word Mnemosyne over the door of the institute that bears his name, modern scholarship has increasingly recognized and explored the central role of memorization, with all its various techniques and applications, in the practice of writers, composers, and artists. This volume presents the papers of a conference held at Villa I Tatti on May 11, 2006, conceived and organized by Anna Maria Busse Berger and Massimiliano Rossi. Ranging from literature and music to painting and architecture, the eight essays collected here pose new questions about the relationship between memory as a tool for creative expression and its formative impact on patterns of thought and modes of organizing knowledge. Hardbound. $37 [item no.6886]


Cattin, Giulio. Il “cantasi come” in una stampa di laude della Biblioteca Riccardiana (Ed. r. 196).

Biblioteca Storico Giuridica e Artistico Letteraria: Letteratura Musica Teatro, 13. Bologna, 1978. 8º, 52 pp. Wrappers. $9 [item no.5100]


Cattin, Giulio. Contributi alla storia della lauda spirituale.

Biblioteca di “Quadrivium”, Serie Musicologica, 2. Bologna, 1958. 8º, 51 pp. Wrappers. $9 [item no.5045]


Cattin, Giulio. Il manoscritto Veneto Marciano Ital. IX 145.

Biblioteca di “Quadrivium”, Serie Musicologica, 3. Bologna, 1962. 8º, 68, with 7 illus pp. Study and inventory of a 14-15th c. composite ms. Contains 97 works all, including mass movements by Dufay & Binchois and numerous anonymous sequences, introits and laudi. Wrappers. $15 [item no.5046]


Boella, Daniela Petrobelli. Tra feste e cerimonie. Catalogo di una collezione dispersa. A cura di Daniela Petrobelli Boella.

Lucca, 2012. 17 x 24 cm, xx, 530 pp. Wrappers. $58 [item no.6741]


Cecchi, Giovanni Maria. La romanesca. Farsa composta l’anno 1585.

Bologna, 1980. 8º, 82 pp. (Rpt. of 1880 edition). Laid paper. Wrappers. [item no.5005]


Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music, 1400-1550. Compiled by the University of Illinois Musicological Archives for Renaissance Manuscript Studies. Volume I, A-J.

Renaissance Manuscript Studies I/I. Neuhausen-Stuttgart, 1979. 8º, 441 pp. The most exhautive inventory of Renaissance sources, with descriptive entries for all known manuscript sources of polyphonic music in mensural notation. Quarter linen. $130 [item no.4555]


Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music, 1400-1550. Compiled by the University of Illinois Musicological Archives for Renaissance Manuscript Studies. Volume II, K-O.

Renaissance Manuscript Studies I/II. Neuhausen-Stuttgart, 1982. 8º, 493 pp. Quarter linen. $166 [item no.4556]


Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music, 1400-1550. Compiled by the University of Illinois Musicological Archives for Renaissance Manuscript Studies. Volume III, P-U.

Renaissance Manuscript Studies I/III. Neuhausen-Stuttgart. 8º, 410 pp. Quarter linen. $130 [item no.4557]


Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music, 1400-1550. Compiled by the University of Illinois Musicological Archives for Renaissance Manuscript Studies. Volume IV, V-Z and Supplement.

Renaissance Manuscript Studies I/IV. Neuhausen-Stuttgart, 1988. 8º, 489 pp. Quarter linen. $166 [item no.4558]


Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music, 1400-1550. Compiled by the University of Illinois Musicological Archives for Renaissance Manuscript Studies. Volume V, Cumulative Bibliography and Indices.

Renaissance Manuscript Studies I/V. Neuhausen-Stuttgart, 1988. 8º, 359 pp. Quarter linen. $120 [item no.4559]


Cervelli, L. Dal rinascimentale “Studio di musica” al moderno museo degli strumenti musicali.

Biblioteca di “Quadrivium”, Studi & Estratti, 20. Bologna, 1978. 8º, 32 pp. Wrappers. $5 [item no.5084]


Cesari, Gaetano. Le origini madrigali cinquecentesco.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, III/36. Bologna, 1976. 8º, 82 pp. (Rpt. of 1912 edition). With introductory note by Giuseppe Vecchi. Cloth. $26 [item no.5333]


Curti-Feininger, Danilo & Marco Gozzi. I codici musicali Trentini del Quattrocento. Nuove scopete, nuove edizioni e nuovi strumenti informatici. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi / The Trent Codices: New Findings, New Editions and New Electronic Resources. Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio, 28-29 novembre 2009. A cura di Danilo Curti-Feininger e Marco Gozzi.

Lucca, 2013. 21 x 24 cm, 175 pp. Contributions: Danilo Curti-Feininger, Armando Tomasi, Bonnie J. Blackburn, Margaret Bent, David Fallows, Jeffrey J. Dean, Antonio Carlini, Marco Gozzi. Wrappers. $28 [item no.6760]


Delfino, Antonio & Maria Teresa Rosa Barezzani. Marc’Antonio Ingegneri and Music at Cremona in the Late Sixteenth Century with a Thematic Catalog of His Works.

Studi e Testi Musicali, 8. Lucca, 1995. 8º, xvi, 469 pp. Wrappers. $98 [item no.5832]


Durante, Elio & Anna Martellotti. Le due “scelte” napoletane di Luzzasco Luzzaschi.

Archivum Musicum: Collana di Studi, G. Florence, 1998. 4º, 119 pp. Wrappers. $47 [item no.6060]


Fallows, David. Josquin.

Collection “Épitome Musical”. Turnhout, 2010. 8°, 522 pp. This book assembles and assesses the newly available material. on the life and work of Josquin Desprez. It builds the main works into the narrative of Josquin's life. Appendices include a critical listing of the documents about Josquin, a summary of later literary references to him, summaries of the relevant information about the main figures mentioned in the book, a list of other musicians at the time named Josquin or something similar (35 of them!) and much else. Hardbound. $138 [item no.6932]


Fallows, David. A Catalogue of Polyphonic Songs, 1415-1480.

Oxford, 1999. 8º, 777 pp. Indispensable tool for locating and identifying chanson texts. Cloth. [item no.6263]


Fano, Fabio. Profilo di una storia della vita musicale in Venezia dalle origini alla vigilia della fioritura rinascimentale.

Biblioteca di “Quadrivium”, Studi e Ricerche di Storia della Musica, 1. Bologna, 1975. 8º, 52 pp. Wrappers. $15 [item no.5028]


Filocamo, G., M.J. Bloxam, Uno gentile et subtile ingenio. Studies in Renaissance Music in Honour of Bonnie J. Blackburn.

Collection “Épitome Musical”. Turnhout, 2009. 19 x 29 cm, 913 pp. Splendid festschrift in honor of of this repected musicologist with articles divided into 7 subjects: Composition & Counterpoint, Devotion, Lives, Manuscripts, Music, Production & Consumption, Teachers & Theorist. Hardbound. $192 [item no.6921]


Gallico, Claudio. Rimeria musicale popolare italiana nel rinascimento.

Strumenti della Ricerca Musicale, 1. Lucca, 1997. 8º, 229 pp. Wrappers. $50 [item no.5688]


[Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg] Bibel und Gesangbuch im Zeitalter der Reformation, 1517-1967. Ausstellung zur Erinnerung an die 95 Thesen Martin Luthers vom Jahre 1517.

Nuremberg, 1967. 17 x 20 cm, 99, with 38 illus pp. Exhibition catalog issued on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the Reformation. Descriptions of 60 items (many with illustrations), including all the important publications of Luther and his milieu. Organized according to bibles, Lutheran & Catholic songbooks. Bibliography. Wrappers. $35 [item no.3378]


Gérold, Théodore. Le manuscrit de Bayeux. Texte et musique d’un recueil de chansons du XVe siècle.

Geneva, 1971. 8º, 188 pp. (Rpt. of Strasbourg, 1921 edition). Wrappers. $45 [item no.5508]


Ghisi, Federico. I canti carnascialeschi nelle fonti musicali del XV e XVI secolo.

Biblioteca Storico Giuridica e Artistico Letteraria: Letteratura Musica Teatro, 30. Bologna, 1970. 8º, 223 pp. (Rpt. of Florence, 1937 edition). Wrappers. $43 [item no.5114]


Herzog August Bibliothek: Musikalischer Lustgarten. Kostbare Zeugnisse aus der Musikgeschichte. Herausgegeben von Ulrich Konrad, Adalbert Roth, & Martin Staehelin.

Katalog, 47. Weinheim, 1985. 8º, 294, with 2 phonograph records pp. Halftone. Includes 129 illustrations. Wrappers. $125 [item no.2356]


Horstmann, Angelika. Illustrationen aus den Musikdrucken der Kasseler Hofkapelle. Band 1: Buchschmuck / Illustrations from the Collection of Printed Music of the Hofkapelle in Kassel. Volume 1: Decorative Elements. Translation: Betty Bushey.

Kassel, 2008. 21 x 30 cm, 135 pp. Survey of engraved and woodcut frontis pieces, devices and initials of the great publishing houses of the renaissance. Hundreds of halftone reproductions sampling works by Gardano, Scotto, Angelieri, Amadino, Vincenti, Ramazetto, Raverij, Sottile, Gargano, Nucci, Carlino, Vitale, Ballard, Pessnot, Goulart, Rovière, Susato, Phalèse, Rafelengius, Feyerabend, Wechel, Richter/Stein, Berg (Nuremberg), Gerlach, Kaufmann, Wagenmann, Petreius, Ulhard, Kriegstein, Schönig, Berg (Munich), Carstens/Hering, Kühn/Görlin, Rhau, Wittel/Birnstiel, Wittel, Baumann, Glück, Witte, Stöckel, Bergen, Beuther, Lucius, Bencard, Harmes, Ledertz, Schneider, Reumann, Waltkirch, Este, Short, Browne, Rickhes, Fiedler, & Nigrimus,. Hardbound. $55 (more info... ) [item no.9313]


Jeppesen, Knud. The Copenhagen Chansonnier. The Thott 2918 manuscript in the Royal Library of Copenhagen. Edited, with an Introduction, and New Remarks (1965) by Knud Jeppesen. Texts Revised and Supplied with a Glossary by Viggo Brondal.

New York, 1965 4˚, 172 pp. Includes modern transcription and 8 halftone plates of openings. Cloth. [item no.6427]


Kmetz, John. The Sixteenth-Century Basel Songbooks.

Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikgesellschaft, II/35. Bern, 1995. 303 pp. Wrappers. $75 [item no.5879]


Lowinsky, Edward. Cipriano de Rore’s Venus motet: Its Poetic and Pictorial Sources.

Provo, 1986. 4º, 88 pp. One of the great contributions to interdisciplinary analysis. Wrappers. $40 [item no.6583]


Lowinsky, Edward E. Musica del Rinascimento. Tre saggi a cura di Massimo Privitera.

Aglaia, 1. Lucca, 1997. 8º, 231 pp. Italian language versions of Lowinsky’s “Tonality and Atonality” (1961); “Adrian Willaert’s Chromatic Duos Reexamined”, (1989) and “Orlando di Lasso’s Prologue to Prophetiae Sybillarum” (1991). With prefaces by Bonnie Blackburn & Massimo Privitera. Wrappers. $42 [item no.6226]


Marix, Jeanne. Histoire de la musique et des musiciens de la cour de Bourgogne sous le règne de Philippe le Bon.

Geneva, 1972. 8º, 332 pp. (Rpt. of Strasbourg, 1939 edition). Wrappers. $71 [item no.5515]


Mingote, Ángel. Cancionero musical de la provincia de Zaragoza.

Zaragoza, 1981. 8º, 411 pp. Wrappers. $29 [item no.5476]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XVI July 1995/1.

Lucca, 1995. 8º, 232 pp. Articles by Pierpaolo Bellini, Ottavio Beretta and Bruno Meini. Wrappers. $46 [item no.5859]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XVI - 1995/2.

Lucca, 1995. 8º, 267 pp. Articles by Marco di Pasquale, Pierpaolo Bellini and Roberto Pia. Wrappers. $46 [item no.5869]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XVII - 1996/1.

Lucca. 1996. 8º, 184 pp. Articles by Philippe Bernard, Francesco Bussi, Carlo Ramella, Valentina Ragaini and Ottone Tonetti. Wrappers. $46 [item no.5870]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XVII - 1996/2.

Lucca. 1996. 8º, 156 pp. Articles by Ottavio Beretta, Marco Rossi, Marco Bordini, Paolo Maurizi, Francescantonio Pollice and Michelangelo Gabbrielli. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6255]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XVIII - 1997/1-2.

Lucca. 1997. 8º, 274 pp. Articles by Alberto Fassone, Marina Vaccarini Gallarani, Carmine Moscariello, Maria Grazia Sità, Carlo Ramella, Inos Biffi and Salvatore Colazzo. Wrappers. $91 [item no.6108]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XIX - 1998/1.

Lucca. 1998. 8º, 149 pp. Articles by Jean-Paul Montagnier, Edoardo Bellotti, Federica Faitelli, Maurizio Tarrini, Marco Rossi and Carlo Alessandro Landini. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6225]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XIX - 1998/2.

Lucca. 1998. 8º, 157 pp. Articles by Claudio Bacciagaluppi, mariateresa Dallaborra, Enrico Raggi, Michelangelo Gabbrielli and Umberto Scarpetta. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6258]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XX - 1999/1.

Lucca. 1999. 8º, 374 pp. Dedicated to Hebrew sacred music. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6260]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XX - 1999/2.

Lucca. 1999. 8º, 372 pp. Marenzio is the focal point of this issue. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6277]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XXI - 2000/1.

Lucca. 2000. 8º, 304 pp. Articles by Angelo Mafucci, Daniel S. Katz, Miled Tarabay, Angelo Rusconi, Giacomo Baroffio, Eduardo Bellotti, Eugenio Maria Fagiani, Maria Lucia Inguscio, Paolo Dal Molin and Eun Ju Kim. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6328]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XXI - 2000/2.

Lucca. 2000. 8º, 372 pp. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6329]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XXII - 2001/1.

Lucca. 2001. 8º, 367 pp. Articles by Serena Facci, Alessandro Zini, Francesco Cignoni, Angelo Rusconi, Leandra Scappaticci, Vittorio Rizzi, Gianfranco Miscia, Massimiliano Guido and Enrico DeMaria. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6330]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XXII - 2001/2.

Lucca. 2001. 8º, 311 pp. Articles by Serena Facci, Francesco Cignoni, Patrizia Bertolotti, Brian Møller Jensen, Eun Ju Kim, Leandra Scappaticci, Massimiliano Locanto, Gian Paolo Fagotto, Marco Della Sciucca and Giacomo Baroffio. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6331]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XXIII - 2002/1.

Lucca. 2002. 8º, 210 pp. Articles by Alessandro Zini, Sandra Martani, Benno Scharf, Angelo Mafucci, Vittorio Rizzi, Michela Niccolai, Eun Ju Kim, Giacomo Baroffio, Kitty Messina and Giovanni Alpigiano. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6515]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XXIII - 2002/2.

Lucca. 2002. 8º, 193 pp. Articles by Sandra Martani, Giacomo Baroffio, Giovanni Alpigiano, Maria Lucia Inguscio, Rodobaldo Tibaldi, Francesco Bussi, Anna Maria Novelli and Giovanni Nobile. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6519]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XXIV - 2003/1.

Lucca. 2003. 8º, 199 pp. Articles by Maria Incoronata Colantuono, Eun Ju Kim, Francesco Cignoni, Paolo Dal Molin (& Andrea Garavaglia & Leandra Scappaticci) and Giacomo Baroffio. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6520]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XXIV - 2003/2.

Lucca. 2003. 8º, 250 pp. Articles by Alessandro Zini, John Arthur Smith, Massimiliano Locanto, Angelo Mafucci, Marina Toffetti, Giacomo Baroffio, Andrea Sanguinetti and Anton Briffa. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6521]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XXV - 2004/1.

Lucca. 2004. 8º, 333 pp. Articles by Giacomo Baroffio, Stefania Vitale, Franceso Marco Attanasi, Antonella Li Causi and M. Marullo. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6528]


Rivista Internazionale di Musica Sacra. XXVI - 2005/1.

Lucca. 2005. 8º, 233 pp. Articles by Giacomo Baroffio, Dobszay László, Philippe Bernard, & Gabriele Moroni. Wrappers. $46 [item no.6591]


Runge, Paul. Die Sangesweisen der Colmarer Handschrift und die Liederhandschrift Donaueschingen herausgegeben von Paul Runge.

Leipzig. 1896 4˚, xx, 200 pp. Unbound in loose signatures. Rare. $95 [item no.6419]


Russo, Luigi & Mario Calore. Spettacoli del rinascimento negli Stati Estensi.

Subsidia Musica Dramatica Mutinensia, I/1. Bologna, 1980. 8º, 180 pp. Wrappers. $25 [item no.5255]


Santucci, Pellegrino. L’improvvisazione nella musica.

Bologna, 1982. 4º, ix, 851 pp. Exhaustive study on the doctrine of improvisation with special emphasis on Italian musical practice from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Hundreds of line-cut facsimiles from various treatises arranged by subject and discussed in detail. Wrappers, in 2 vols. $168 [item no.5012]


Schiltz, Katelijne & Bonnie J. Blackburn] Canons and Canonic Techniques, 14th-16th Centuries: Theory, Practice, and Reception History. Proceedings of the International Conference, Leuven, 4-6 October 2005. Edited by K. Schiltz and Bonnie J. Blackburn.

Analysis in Context. Leuven Studies in Musicology, 1. Louvain, 2007. 8 °, xxvi, 498 pp. Although canons pervade music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, they have not received proportionate attention in the musicological literature. The 22 contributions in this book shed light on canons and canonic techniques from a wide range of perspectives, such as music theory and analysis, compositional and performance practice, palaeography and notation, as well as listening expectations and strategies. Wrappers. (in process of continuation, standing orders invited) $128 [item no.6656]


Schreurs, Eugeen. An Anthology of Music Fragments from the Low Countries (Middle Ages–Renaissance). Polyphony, Monophony and Slate Fragments in Facsimile.

Facsimile Series, I/A.11. Peer, 1995. 23 x 33 cm, xxiv, 132, 4 pp. Full-color reproductions of fragments of medieval and renaissance music and music theory uncovered in the archives and libraries of the Low Countries. The mainly polyphonic music fragments include compositional sketches and didactic drafts as well as simple polyphony, sacred and secular monophony and slate fragments. Introduction in Flem-Eng. Linen. $123 (more info... ) [item no.7166]


Secondo incontro con la musica italiana e polacca. Musica vocale e vocale strumentale dal rinascimento al barocco (1970).

Miscellanee Saggi Convegni, 8. Bologna, 1974. 8º, 272 pp. Wrappers. $22 [item no.5222]


Seller, Francesca. Enrico Radesca di Foggia e il suo tempo. Atti del Convegno di Studi, Foggia, 7-8 Aprile 2000. A cura di Francesca Seller.

Strumenti della Ricerca Musicale, 7. Lucca, 2001. 8º, xviii, 213 pp. Congress proceedings on the works and influence of Radesca di Foggia. Includes essays by Raffaele Colapietra, Rosy Moffa, Sabrina Saccomani, Renato Meucci, Dinko Fabris, Francesco Cotticelli, Marco Giuliani, Patrizia Balestra, Agostino Ruscillo, Marta Columbro & Armando Carideo. Wrappers. $50 [item no.6362]


Tibaldi, Rodobaldo. La recezione di Palestrina in Europa fino all’Ottocento. A cura di Rodobaldo Tibaldi.

Strumenti della Ricerca Musicale, 6. Lucca, 1999. 8º, 280 pp. Congress proceedings on reception of Palestrina in Europe until the end of 19th c. Contributions by James Haar, Anna Maria Vacchelli Monterosso, Piero Gargiulo, Stephen R. Miller, Gabriele Giacomelli, Rodobaldo Ribaldi, Dinko Fabris, Noel O’Regan, Siegfried Gmeinwiesser, Antonio Andrés Ferrandis and Alina Zórawska-Witkowska. Wrappers. $48 [item no.6237]


Torelli, Daniele. Benedetto Binago e il mottett a Milano tra cinque e seicento.

Quaderni dell’Archivio per la Storia della Musica in Lombardia, 3 Lucca, 2004. 4º, 252 pp. Wrappers. $40 [item no.6567]


Vecchi, Giuseppe. Il “Partito” dei i libro dei madrigaletti a 3 di Tarquinio Merula (1624).

Biblioteca di “Quadrivium”, Serie Paleografica, 7. Bologna, 1976. 8º, 38 pp. Wrappers. $7 [item no.5414]


Vendrix, Phillippe. Johannes Ciconia, musicien de la transition. Edité par Philippe Vendrix.

Collection “Épitome Musical”. Turnhout, 2003. 18 x 27 cm, 326 pp. Congress proceedings with articles by Philippe Vendrix, Jane Alden, Margaret Bent, David Fallows, Yolanda Plumbley, Anne Stone, Galliano Ciliberti, Annette Kreutzer-Herr, Pedro Memelsdorff, Stefano Mengozzi and Jan Herlinger. Wrappers. $110 [item no.6561]