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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.46r

"Wer trew mit valsch vergelten wil" "Whoever repays loyalty with falsehood"

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Wer trew mit valsch vergelten wil / Whoever repays loyalty with falsehood, der hat das spil / has lost the game in aller wellt mit recht verloren / for all to see, and with good reason, und kündt er schiessen noch sovil / and if he could shoot even more, er trifft kayn zil / he still wouldn’t hit a target: ich wolt es gult im seine oren / I’d hope that it costs him his ears. prauch allen fleis / er wird mit solcher weys / No matter how hard he tries, der khegel nit vil scheiben / er hat kain glückh / he won't hit many pins weyl er solch tückh thůt treyben. because he acts so wickedly.

Ich hann zwar lanng auff das gewart / I’ve indeed waited a long time ob er ayn fart / for him to someday trew gůttat wurd noch recht erkennen / correctly understand loyalty and integrity, die mich můß ewig rewen hart / which will pain me sorely forever. hyetz woll erspart / Now spared this ein närrin můß ich mich selbs nennen / I must call myself a foolish woman. will suchen weg / I want to find a way damit ich füran pfleg / to ensure der rue unnd mich verhüte / a quiet life from now on and keep myself away vor solchem gwin / from such a reward; das ist mein sin und gmüte. this is my mind and intention.

Will mich wol schicken recht darein / I will resign myself to this und mercken feyn / and remember wie er sich than hat gen mir halten / how he acted towards me; verschlossen ist das hertze mein / my heart is closed off from him recht wye ayn schreyn / just like a chest; vor im wil mein selbs walten / I’ll take care of myself, ob kem ayn not / in case I risk das ich nit fall in spot / being ridiculed; [in the case] that people say von im wer ich verlassen / it was him who left me! verstee gantz wol / I truly know das ich mich sol / sein massen. that I should stay away from him.