INTABULATIONS FROM THE CLEMENS HÖR ORGAN BOOK - Fred G. Pisecki, organ sample set

Описание: Extraits from the Clemens Hör tablature book (c. 1530-1540) with dance scenes

CONTENTS:

1) Josquin Desprez (c.1450-1521) - Duo 00:14

2) Josquin Desprez (c.1450-1521) - Ein anderes Duo 01:54

3) Ludwig Senfl ( c.1490-1543) - Kein Lieb ohn Treu 03:54

4) Dietrich Sixt (c.1494-1548) - Ein Meydlein auf ein Ladin lag 05:44

5) Claudin de Sermisy (c.1490-1562) - Lay qui moy fay 06:26


TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 09:23

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Recorded with the sample set of the organ from Norrfjärden (S)

sampled by Lars Palo (S) and Augustine's virtual organs (H),

performed by Fred G. Pisecki.

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Clemens Hör (c.1515-1572) was born in St. Gallen (Switzerland) into a patrician family that was heavily involved in administrative tasks and trade in the late Middle Ages. Clemens himself was Catholic and became a clergyman, but he was also a highly gifted astronomer and accountant. He began writing his account book at a time when St. Gallen was undergoing reform, and completed it during a period of war and religious unrest. Clemens' own views were mostly at odds with the fact that St. Gallen was changing from a Catholic to a Protestant city.

Hör was also a music lover, which is why he wrote his own organ book. The movements he recorded in this tablature book - which forms the appendix to a medical treatise - are almost exclusively faithful transcriptions of mensural notation vocal compositions into tablature, uncolored intabulated because Clemens was probably not very skilled at coloring.

By origin, Hör was a schoolmaster, and his relationship to music was determined by humanistic ideas. He was less concerned with the speculative meaning of music than with its tonal reality when played at home or at school on the organ or clavichord.

With fewer than 50 intabulated pieces, which, apart from a few French chansons and dance songs, contain only German songs, Clemens Hör's tablature book is the smallest in terms of size, but hardly the least significant.