In perusing Wikipedia the other day, I ran across the following on
Ulrich Zwingli, the great Swiss Reformation leader:

"Zwingli enjoyed music ...and was so well-known for his playing that his
enemies mocked him as "the evangelical lute-player and fifer". Three of
Zwingli's Lieder or hymns have been preserved: the Pestlied mentioned
above, an adaptation of Psalm 65 (ca. 1525), and the Kappeler Lied,
which is believed to have been composed during the campaign of the first
war of Kappel (1529)." [1]

And I was wondering if anyone knew what form these tunes existed in. 
Given he was a lutenist, I wonder if there is tab for them, which I
assume would be in the German form.  And given the early date, they
could be rather interesting for a number of reasons.

Anyone with any pointers, or checked this out in the past?


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huldrych_Zwingli#Music

.. mark



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