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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.47r

"Unser pfarrer ist auf der pan" "Our vicar is away"

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Unser pfarrer ist auf der pan / Our vicar is away. was getz dich an / What’s it to you? ich wais und kan / I can and know how dy junngen feilel müstern über gan / to ogle the young violets as I go. es fleügt do her ein weisser schwan / A white swan flies by, wil kurtzweil han / it wants to have fun; er prangt gar schan / it shows off nicely: do můsst ich armer půb gar pald dar von / Thus I, poor lad that I am, soon had to leave. ich gyeng durch ayn zerrissens haus / I walked through a tumbled-down house; still was dy maus / the mouse was quiet, sy ruckt her aus / ayn flügel mein gans / my goose spread apart her wings: gyng gang / gyng gang / gyng gang, gyng gang also laut unser gsang / - so our song goes. schaubhůt der ist fürd sunnen gůt / A straw hat, it’s good for the sun. das pferd ist wild kumbt aus der stůt / The horse is wild, it comes from the mare. das pferd ist will kumpt aus der stůt. The horse is wild, it comes from the mare.