There's a lot of knowledge on these sources here in Switzerland, of course. The ms. with two intabulations of Zwingli's "Herr nun heb den Wagen selb" is D-B 40588. I recorded them in 1990 on my CD "Schweizer Lautenmusik - Lautenmusik aus Schweizer Handschriften". I had a lecture on the Benzenauer last month in Freiburg and in the acts will be a closer look on some of the manuscripts - and I'm writing on a paper you certainly will read in some months who will discuss these Swiss lute sources.
Andreas Am 19.12.2009 um 02:41 schrieb Mark Probert: > > 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 > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Andreas Schlegel Eckstr. 6 CH-5737 Menziken +41 (0)62 771 47 07 [email protected]
