The Sagan Partbooks (the Glogau Songbook) and the Traditions of polyphonic song in Central Europe

Abstract

The repertory of polyphonic songs preserved in the Central European sources from the second half of the fifteenth-century is a point of departure for a critical approach to the methods of musical philology.

Keywords

• 15th century
• Central Europe
• polyphonic song
• the Sagan partbooks
• the Glogau Songbook
• musical philology