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Autor: Hollaway, William W.

Martin Agricola's 'Musica Instrumentalis Deudsch': A Translation

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The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that  of presenting a concise English translation  of the book which Martin Agricola wrote in 1528 in German on the musical instruments and practices of his time.  In addition to the translation itself, there is a major section devoted to a comparison of the material of Musica instrumentalis deudsch with other books and treatises on the same and related subjects which were written at approximately the same time or within the next hundred years.Agricola states that the purpose of his book was to teach the playing of various instruments such as organs, lutes, harps, viols, and pipes. He also noted that the material was prepared expressly for young people to study.  To facilitate the accomplishment of this purpose Agricola wrote the book in short, two-lined, rhymed couplets so that the youths might quickly memorize the material and thus retain the instructions better.

While Agricola was not the first to write a book devoted to  the  instruction  of music (the  most important work before his time  was Sebastian Virdung's Musica getutscht, published in 1511), he was one of the first to deal with the subject extensively.  Agricola's material is not always original, and  particularly evident is the presentation of some  illustrations  which were copied outright from  Virdung's work,  But the importance of Agricola's work lies in  its  manner of presentation and the  offering of more details in certain areas than did Virdung.

The second portion of this dissertation presents a number of other works of the  sixteenth and  early seventeenth centuries which deal with musical instruments. Among these  are  (in addition to Virdung's work): Michael Praetorius' Sntama musicum (1619),  Marin Mersenne's Harmonie universelle (1636), Arnold Schlick's Spiegel den orgelmacher (i511), Hans Gerle's Musica teusch  (1532), Giovanni Maria Lanfranco's Scintille di musica (1533), Sylvestro Ganassi's La fontegara  (1535)  and Regola rubertina  (1542), Nicola Vicentino's L'antico musica (i555), Juan de Bermudo's Declaracion de instrumentos musicales (1555), Vicentio Galilei's I  fronimo (1583), Ludovico Zacconi's Prattica di musica (1592), Scipione Cerreto's Della prattica musica (1601), Giovanni Luca Conforto's Breve et facile maniera (1593), Hercole Bottrigari's Il  desiderio (1594),  Thomas Robinson's The Schoole of Musicke (1605), Charles Butler's The Principles of Musick (1636),  Pietro Cerone'  El melopeo (1613)...)

Martin Agricola's 'Musica Instrumentalis Deudsch': A Translation

 

 

 


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