Grotesque Medieval Music Sheets From Chansonnier of Zeghere van Male from 1542

The 16th-century scribes of Bruges had a good deal of fun illuminating this musical manuscript, due to the fact it is complete of beautiful, intriguing and downright bizarre illustrations. The music e book is identified as the Cambrai Chansonnier and was designed for the enjoyment of aristocratic local Zeghere van Male.

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The songbook of Zeghere van Male is made up of four complementary element-publications: Superius, Altus, Tenor, and Bass. The chansonnier grew to become section of this public selection following the French Revolution, beforehand it was in the Bibliothèque de Saint-Sépulcre, also in Cambrai.

The reserve is made up of 229 compositions, particularly different, some of them existing only in this source. The specific part of this manuscript is its marriage of new music, artwork and culture: drawings adorn just about every folio. Executed by quill and with energetic colors the drawings explain reasonable scenes of everyday daily life, leisurely activities, and involve animals and monstrous creatures, obscene depictions and vegetal decorations. With combined factors inherited from the Center-Ages, the Antiquity and the vogue of the grotesque, they are a testimony of the prevailing taste in Flemish civil culture in the initial fifty percent of the 16th century.

Zeghere van Male (1504–1601) was a Bruges service provider working in linen, yarns and dyes. Also a politician, writer and cultured member of the well-to-do bourgeoisie, he is credited with not only preserving an comprehensive songs repertory—13 masses, 2 mass fragments, 64 motets, 125 French secular pieces, 9 Flemish secular items, 3 Italian secular items, 12 textless pieces by the very best composers of the time—but giving an extraordinary backdrop of illustrations, 1200 in all, jointly with vivid initials, foliage and grotesque figures, that depict all factors of 16th-c. existence: processions, funerals, ceremonial configurations, scenes reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch.

It is exciting to take note that Zeghere realized this feat not by way of some type of monumental print (tunes publishing by 1542 was effectively recognized) but in a sumptuously hand-manufactured manuscript, the only way to completely take advantage of the painterly and pictorial arts. The material in this wonderful e-book is priceless for musicians, folklorists and art enthusiasts.

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