Songbook owned by the universal scholar Aegidius Tschudi
(1505-1572) of Glarus; together with Tschudi’s estate, it became
the property of the Abbey Library of St. Gall in 1768. This volume
contains in one binding the part-books for bass and descant voices
for 17 motets and chansons in five or six parts by contemporary
composers such as Josquin Desprez or Loyset Compère, written in
mensural notation using the five line staff. This songbook was
written by several hands, among them Tschudi himself, who added
notes about modes on fol. 12r–v and 24v–25r (the schemata on
fol. 25v likely are by Heinrich Glarean). Except for one piece, all
the compositions in Tschudi’s songbook also appear in Cod. Sang.
463; therefore these part-books seem to be drafts for the
final collection.
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