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Music in Non-Musical Medieval Manuscripts

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Gastbeitrag von Paweł Gancarczyk Today, a book is usually understood as a coherent whole united under a single title. In the Middle Ages, however, this was often not the case. A single manuscript could contain numerous texts of widely differing content. These texts might have been copied by different scribes, at different times, and in different […]

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Fragment of an eighteenth-century copy of Johann Gottlieb Janitsch’s Sonata da Camera No. 21 in g minor. Sing-Akademie zu Berlin: D-Bsa SA 3149Public Domain Mark 1.0

Recovered music manuscripts of the Prussian Baroque

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Gastbeitrag von Simone Walters The recovery and restitution of over 5,000 music manuscripts that form the archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin (siglum D‑Bsa) has had a significant impact on music scholarship by providing a wealth of newly available sources and facilitating the identification of previously unknown works and composers. Having been missing for over half a […]

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