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The first printed songbook with songs primarily in German was printed in July 1512 by the Augsburg printer Erhard Oeglin (ca.1470-1520). The songbook consists of four partbooks – it is also the first German song collection with four voices throughout - and contains 49 songs with a mixture of spiritual and secular content, 43 of which are in German and 6 in Latin. Oeglin was an innovative printer, credited as one of the first printers to print musical notation using movable type and as one of the first printers of “Zeitungen” – news-sheets. Oeglin does not attribute any of the songs to particular composers but some of these songs do appear in other songbooks of this period where they are attributed to various composers active at the Imperial court, including Ludwig Senfl, Paul Hofhaimer and Heinrich Isaac. These songs are collectively known as tenor lieder, as the melody is usually carried by the tenor line. This was the prototypical song type in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century and enjoyed particular prominence at the court of the Emperor Maximilian (1459-1519).

Digitized copies of these partbooks from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich are available online here: https://stimmbuecher.digitale-sammlungen.de//view?id=bsb00082229

Saunders, Steven. “Music in Early Modern Germany.” Early Modern German Literature 1350-1700, edited by Max Reinhart, Camden House, 2007, pp. 653-698.

Keyl, Stephen. “Tenorlied, Discantlied, Polyphonic lied: Voices and instruments in German secular polyphony of the Renaissance.” Early Music, vol. 20, no. 3, 1992, pp. 434–445.

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München 00082229 Rar.27 Stimme T f.41r

"Hertz liebstes pyld" "Dearest sight of my heart"

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Hertz liebstes pyld / Dearest sight of my heart, beweys dich mild / show your gentleness mit deiner lieb unnd gunst gen mir / through your love and favor for me; der gleich will ich / and I will do the same, wann ich han dich / for I have chosen you, nach lust und wunsch meins hertzen gier / following the want and wish of my heartfelt desire, er welt für all / above all others in disem tall / in this valley mit reichem schall / frey ich mich dein in erenn. I delight in you with honor, and greatly rejoice.

F Du solt hann / F., wherever you go, you deserve my praise auff aller pann / above all others; von mir für ander all den preyß / you have no equals in disem reich / in this realm. lebt nit dein gleich mit allem thun zucht perd und weyß / no matter their conduct, cultivation, bearing or air. da für dich acht / So, take care, mein hertz das lacht / my heart rejoices und stätz betracht / and always aims mein freüd mit dyr zů meren. to increase its joy with you.

Zů dyr ich mich freüntlich versich / I am graciously disposed to you, dein hertz mir gantz mir trewen sey / may your heart be faithfully mine, die weyl dir gar an alles gfar / mich findest auch gerecht unnd frey / on all umb stendt as you find me to be just and charitable, with no ill intentions, and straightforward. von dir nit wendt / I will not leave you is in mein enndt / until my end: des thů ich dich geweren. This I guarantee you.