I have been looking at the collection of German songs collected by
Voigtl=E4nder, which was published in 1642. My singing friend, David Clark,
has discovered that no. XVI is adapted from Dowland's Can she excuse, with
the melody turned into triplets. These are the notes of the first few bars:
|\ | |\ | | |\ | |\ | |\ |
| | | | | | | | | | |
| | | |. | | | | | | |.
__________c__h___f__c__c___a__a___________
_a__a__a_______|_________|_______d__d_|_c_
_______________|_________|____________|___
_______________|_________|____________|___
_c_____c__c__c_|_________|_a__a__c__c_|___
_______________|_c_______|____________|_c_
a a
(The music was originally notated in staff notation - treble and bass with a
few figures.)
A facsimile is available for free download at
http://img.kb.dk/ma/vgtl/vgtl-kplt.pdf
Is there a modern edition of this song collection? It is particularly
satisfying to be able to identify the source of this one song, but it would
be nice to find out where the other songs come from too. If anyone could
pass on any information about the songs in Voigtl=E4nder's collection, I would
appreciate it very much.
Many thanks,
Stewart McCoy.
NB Please note I have changed my e-mail address.
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