Glogauer Liederbuch

The Glogau Song Book, formerly called Berlin Songbook, is a resulting 1480 collection of 292 sacred and secular vocal and instrumental pieces of the late Gothic period from Silesia. The Lower Silesian place Glogau is located approximately 100 km north-west of Wrocław on the Oder. It is considered the oldest known vocal set of books from Central Europe, which is delivered in three partbooks ( Discantus, tenor, countertenor ). A smaller part of it has German titles and sometimes lyrics. There is a use for the collection sociable music that served a small monastic community for entertainment.

The Glogau Song Book is now as part of the Berlinka collection in the stocks of Biblioteka Jagiellonian in Krakow.

Expenditure

• H. Ring, J. Klapper [Text Revision ]: The Glogau Song Book, Tl 1 and 2 (= The legacy of German music, 4, 8). Peters, Leipzig 1936-37.
• Howard Mayer Brown ( ed.): Glogau Song Book ( = Renaissance Music in Facsimile, vol 6. ). Garland, New York [ et al ] 1986.