There is not much sacred music in those manuscripts. But there are other manuscripts and even prints (Falckenhagen!) only containing sacred music as there still was a living tradition of domestic devotion.
Thomas Am Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2005 18:04 schrieb Alain Veylit: > Ralf, > This is very interesting: how many of those pieces preserved in > monasteries (roughly speaking) are sacred works, as opposed to dances or > preludes? any single volume dedicated to the liturgy? > Alain > > ralf bachmann wrote: > >>BTW, has anyone noticed that while 50% of the > >>repertoire in the 16th > >>century is religious - Ave marias, motets, psalms, > >>etc. - the later > >>repertoire is entirely profane? > > > >Yeap, that´s true ... monks seemed to like that new > >"entirely profane" music. A very substantial part of > >the 17th & 18th century lute music is (was) preserved > >in monasteries: Grüssau, Seitenstetten, Kremsmünster, > >Raigern, Neuburg, etc. > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > >http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at > >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED]