This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ... in their way, and who were distinguished and rewarded, according to their merits, by different princes: to give, for instance, a striking example, such was Conrad Paulmann, of Niirnberg, a man blind from his birth, who is said to have excelled on all instruments, and is considered to have been the inventor of the lute ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ... in their way, and who were distinguished and rewarded, according to their merits, by different princes: to give, for instance, a striking example, such was Conrad Paulmann, of Niirnberg, a man blind from his birth, who is said to have excelled on all instruments, and is considered to have been the inventor of the lute-tabulatura. He died at Munich in 1473, after having formed many pupils. It has, moreover, been noticed by many writers, --and their observations are evidently confirmed by a perusal of the compositions of that early period, which contain a great extension of the parts, and frequent change of key, --that counterpoint, particularly such as was set to familiar songs, was performed by instruments of one kind or another, whatever may have been their nature or construction. For an interesting biography of Conrad Paulmann, see Gerber's New Lexicon. CHAPTER IX. EPOCH OF HADRIAN WILLAEKT. 1520 To 1560. Amongst the Belgians, who were partly invited and came partly of their own accord to seek their fortune about this time in Italy, was Adrian Willaert, himself a pupil of Mouton, and therefore in the second degree from the school of Josquin. When still a young man, of about twenty-six years of age, after having become known as a composer, and having acquired some reputation in his own country, Willaert went first to Rome in or near the year 1518. One of his subsequent pupils, the celebrated Zarlino, relates the circumstance of Willaert having laid claim to the authorship of a favourite Motette, which had previously been considered, in the Pontifical Chapel, as the composition of Josquin; and that so great was the veneration and prejudice of the singers in favour of Josquin, who formerly be According to some accounts a Pupil of Josquin. longed to their body...
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