D-As Tonkunst Schletterer 7 and 23

Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, Tonkunst Schletterer 7 and 23

Two choirbooks of liturgical music. Ms. 23 contains music for the winter season (Christmas through Corpus Christi), and ms. 7 contains music for the summer season (Pentecost to Christmas). The coverage of the manuscripts overlaps from Pentecost through Corpus Christi.

Provenance: Copied by Johannes Dreher for the monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra, Augsburg. Ms. 7 dated 1576 in the manuscript.

Published inventory: Clytus Gottwald, Die Musikhandschriften der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg. Handschriftenkataloge der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg. Wiesbaden, 1974. Pages 81-87.

DIAMM entries: (ms.7); (ms. 23)

Source of pieces in Choralis Constantinus II:

Copied from a source based on the printer's exemplar. That source was probably at the monastery before the appearance of the print.

Choralis Constantinus II contents:

Ms. 23:

Ms. 7:

Character of variants in Choralis Constantinus II pieces:

Where the end of a phrase has an accent on the antepenultumate syllable, the manuscript usually has a dotted minim and semiminim in one or two voices where the Choralis print has a semibreve or two minims. This distinctive cadential rhythm is not found in other sources based on the printer's exemplar, and so must have originated with this copy. In some cases, a semibreve cadential penultimate in the Choralis print is replaced by two minims, rather than a dotted minim and semiminim, when the text accent falls on the antepenultimate.

As noted above, the liturgical assignments of six pieces differ from those in the Choralis print.