There are many uncertainties about the production and dissemination of vocal polyphony manuscripts from Prague illuminators’ and scribes’ ateliers compared with the dissemination of monophonic vocal manuscripts. The only known “workshop” producing manuscripts with primarily polyphonic music is the one led by Master Jan Kantor Starý († 1582) in Prague’s New Town. However, the number of surviving manuscripts suggests that more “workshops” might have existed in Prague at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The goal of this study is to ascertain if there were any other ateliers in Prague producing vocal polyphony manuscripts during the analysed period. The findings are based on recent palaeographic and codicological analyses of the selected group of polyphonic sources written by identical scribal hands: Kutná Hora Codex from 1593 (Czech Museum of Music, Prague), Trubka’s Gradual from 1604 (Prague City Archives, Prague), the Partbook of the St. Barbara Literary Brotherhood in Přeštice from 1619 (National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague) and a bifolio from an unknown partbook in the Gradual of the St. Castulus Church from 1580 (Library of the Archbishop’s Chateau, Kroměříž). The comparison of the analysed scribal hands indicates the existence of an atelier that was probably from the milieu of the royal court. Systematic inquiries into the professional production of polyphonic manuscripts should thus continue because that is the only way to better and fully understand the musical culture of the Czech lands during the Renaissance., Natálie Krátká., Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy, and Jan Pulkrábek [překladatel]
The Contribution of Professional Prague Illuminators' and Scribes' Ateliers of the Dissemination of Vocal Polyphony in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown at the Turn of the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Studie se zabývá repertoárem polyfonních hymnů, zapsaných v rukopisném kodexu, uloženém v knihovně kláštera na Strahově., Veronika Mráčková., Rubrika: Studie, and České resumé na s. 104, anglický abstrakt na s. 91
The manuscript collection of polyphonic compositions, a so-called Codex Speciálník (Prague, ca. 1485-1500), is presented in the study as a possible starting point for an investigation of the everyday life of a late medieval town. The centre of attention is primarily the alphabetically arranged index of the compositions, which was to facilitate orientation in the musical contents of the codex. The majority of the compositions were copied into the manuscript without the name of the author, therefore the textual incipits were used in the index for the identification of the anonymous songs and motets. and Lenka Hlávková.
Upon closer study, the brief three-voice compositions by Johannes Tourout preserved in Bohemian sources of 15th-century polyphony with Latin texts turn out to be problematic. By analyzing the musical component of these compositions, the author of the study has determined that the works are contrafacta of chansons. At the same time, he has attempted to find the French texts for which Tourouts music may have been originally composed. Although the reconstruction is purely hypothetical, the results are an important argument in the current discussions of the musical culture of Central Europe in the latter half of the fifteenth century., Jaap van Benthem., Rubrika: Studie, and České resumé na s. 238, anglický abstrakt na s. 221.
Studie se zabývá novými zjištěními v případě uvedených rukopisů a možností, že jako autora antifony Da Pacem je možno určit Costanza Festu., Wojciech Odoj., Rubrika: Studie, and České resumé na s. 132, anglický abstrakt na s. 115