D-Mbs Mus. MS 3936

D-Mbs Mus. MS 3936

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus. MS 3936. Choirbook of liturgical music, mostly for Holy Cross.

Provenance: Probably from south Germany. Date 1573 on covers and title pages. Online copy | DIAMM entry

Published inventory: Martin Bente, Marie Louise Göllner, Helmut Hell, and Bettina Wackernagel, eds., Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Katalog der Musikhandschriften, i: Chorbücher und Handschriften in chorbuchartiger Notierung, Kataloge Bayerischer Musiksammlungen, 5/1 (Munich, 1989).

Source of pieces in Choralis Constantinus II: Probably copied from the Choralis print.

Choralis Constantinus II contents:

• Mass 20
  • Introit-Nos autem gloriari (fol. 1v)
  • Alleluia-Dulce lignum (fol. 3v)
  • Sequence-Laudes crucis (fol. 6v)
  • Communion-Nos autem gloriari (fol. 17v)

Character of variants in Choralis Constantinus II repertoire:

Many cadences in phrases with text accents on the antepenultimate have a dotted minim and semiminim in one or more voices preceding the final notes. The same rhythmic variant is found frequently in D-As Tonkunst Schletterer 7 and 23.