Nürnberger Meistergesang
Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi XX
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- Editors: Klaus Kramer, Horst Brunner
- Binding: Hardcover
- Work language: German
- Text language: German
- ISMN:
- Size: 9.4 x 6.7 inches
- Pages: 187
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
It is not generally known that the names of the singers appearing in Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" are not purely fictional but are based on historically documented individuals. Wagner drew them from his most important source for the historical details of the work: the "Buch von der Meistersinger Holdseligen Kunst", published in 1697 by Professor Johann Christoph Wagenseil, who taught at the Imperial City University of Altdorf and was personally familiar with the Nuremberg tradition of "Meistergesang" (master singing).
The Meistersingers appearing in Wagner's opera—Pogner, Vogelgesang, Nachtigall, Beckmesser, Kothner, Zorn, Eißlinger, Moser, Ortel, Schwarz and Foltz—were, however, not contemporaries of Hans Sachs (1494–1576). Rather, they were earlier, historically documented members of the Nuremberg Meistersinger Guild, whose existence is attested from the early fifteenth century onwards. Furthermore, it is little known that melodies associated with the specific "Töne" composed by almost all of these Meistersingers have survived. The term "Töne" refers to the characteristic stanza structures and melodies in which the Meisterlieder were composed throughout the history of this art form, which continued into the eighteenth century.
This edition brings together all 61 melodies preserved in manuscripts dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries and attributed to 14 Nuremberg Meistersingers from the period before Hans Sachs. Different versions are presented synoptically in modern notation. The edition is supplemented by an introduction and a critical report.
Together with the volume "Spruchsang" (Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi VI), published in 2010, the musical tradition of Middle High German "Sangspruch" poetry and early "Meistergesang" is now fully available in new editions. This work is intended equally for musicologists and scholars of German studies. in addition, it offers performers the opportunity to expand their repertoire using an edition that is easy to use, while remaining firmly grounded in scholarship.
Contents:
- Einleitung
- Verzeichnis der Quellen and Siglen
- Heinrich Barz:
- Langer Ton
- Sixt Beckmesser:
- Chorweise
- Goldener or Überzarter Ton
- Neuer Ton
- Hans Bogner:
- Steigweise
- Hieronymus Drabolt:
- Goldene Tagreise
- Linder Ton
- Ulrich Eislinger:
- Langer Ton
- Maienweise
- Überlanger Ton
- Hans Folz:
- Abenteuerweise
- Baumton
- Blutton
- Chorweise
- Feielweise
- Freier Ton
- Geteilter Ton (Teilton)
- Hahnenkrähweise
- Hoher Ton
- Kettenton
- Langer Ton
- Passionalweise
- Schrankweise
- Strafweise
- Tagweise
- Fritz Kettner:
- Frauenton
- Hoher Ton
- Osterweise (Fassung A)
- Frauenlob, Verholener Ton (= Osterweise Fassung B)
- Paratreihen
- Konrad Nachtigall:
- Abendton
- Abgeschiedener Ton (Geschiedener Ton)
- Geteilter Ton
- Hoher Ton
- Kurze Tagweise
- Kurzer Ton
- Langer Ton
- Leidton
- Sanfter Ton
- Starker Ton
- Lienhard Nunnenbeck:
- Abgeschiedener Ton
- Goldene Schlagweise
- Hammerweise
- Kurzer Ton
- Langer Ton
- Zeherweise
- Hermann Örtel:
- Langer Ton
- Leidton
- Hans Schwarz:
- Vermahnter Ton
- Caspar Singer:
- Freier Ton
- Heller Ton
- Langer Ton
- Lieber Ton
- Schlechter Ton
- Kunz Vogelsang:
- Goldener Ton
- Fritz Zorn:
- Greferei
- Unbenannter Ton
- Verborgener Ton
- Verhohlener Ton
- Zugweise
- Kritischer Bericht
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