Manuscript RC 4 from the Silesian Museum in Opava and an unknown song by Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz
Jan Ciglbauer
Charles University (Czechia)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6968-4613
Paweł Gancarczyk
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7373-007X
Abstract
The library holdings of the Silesian Museum in Opava include the fifteenth-century manuscript RC 4, which has yet to be investigated by musicologists. In particular, no attention has been paid to the polyphonic repertoire it contains. The authors provide basic information about the manuscript, focusing on the two-part song Poligena exanimes. Based on the presence of the acrostic ‘Petrus’ and the song’s stylistic features, Poligena exanimes can be attributed to Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz (Piotr z Grudziądza). This song was written on the last gathering of the manuscript, which also contains two other works by this composer (Phebus ecclipsi tumuli and Predulcis eurus turbinis), dated on the basis of watermarks to around 1431–35. It is one of the earliest sources of the work of Petrus de Grudencz, written after the composer’s graduation from Cracow Academy (1430) and before he joined the court of Frederick III Habsburg (probably around 1440).
Apart from polyphony, the manuscript contains monophonic passions and lamentations, as well as one-part songs, in which – apart from Latin texts – German and Czech texts also appear (the erotic song Wsed diabel babie na pleczo). Such a mix of repertoire is characteristic of Latin schools and university colleges. Research into this source will continue.
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Paweł GancarczykInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
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