Anonymus, Præludium (Ms. Lynar B3, folio 11)
Last year I published all the works contained in manuscript Ms Lynar B3. Or so I thought. Today I wanted to create and upload a spotify playlist for all those pieces and found one...
Category: Anonymus, Ms Lynar B3
Anonymus, Præludium
Of the Lynar manuscripts in the B series, manuscript B9 is the shortest. It contains only two organ preludes. The are both without indication of a composer. The second one, though short, is a...
Anonymus, Præludium
Of the Lynar manuscripts in the B series, manuscript B9 is the shortest. It contains only two organ preludes. The are both without indication of a composer. The first of them is unique in...
Anonymus, Præludium pedaliter
Folio 39 of manuscript Ms Lynar B3 contains 4 small preludes. Yesterday I published three of them. Today follows the fourth and last one. The work is a bit longer than the other three....
Anonymus, 3 Præludiae pedaliter
Folio 39 of manuscript Ms Lynar B3 contains 4 small preludes. The reason why they are so short can only be guessed. Perhaps they were meant as intonations. Or perhaps they were meant as...
M.D.O, Præludium
The composer of the prelude on folio 38 of manuscript Ms Lynar B3 is indicated with the initials “M.D.O”. It is therefore believed that this prelude was composed by Martin Düben. In tonality and...
Anonymus, Præludium pedaliter
This is about the tenth anonymous prelude I publish from manuscript Lynar B3. It has two distinct parts or episodes (as it is one contnuous piece). In the first part the right and left...
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Præludium pedaliter
The praeludium pedaliter on folio 36 of manuscript Lynar B3 bears the initials M.F.P.S.W. Or M.J.P.S.W. Both readings of the second initial are possible. It seems common agreement that these initials signify “Magister Johan...
Anonymus, Præludium pedaliter
Folio 34 of manuscript Ms Lynar B3 contains two compositions. Where the first (published two days ago) is a full fledged composition, the second is more a sketch. It could be meant as a...
Anonymus, Præambulum pedaliter
The praeambulum pedaliter on folio 34 of manuscript Ms Lynar B3 does not indicate a composer for this prelude. So it’s anyone’s guess who the composer might have benn. Based on the style of...
Anonymus, Præambulum pedaliter
The next prelude in manuscript Ms Lynar B3 has again no initials, so there is no indication of who the composer could have been. The style is very different from the previous compositions, so...
Anonymus, Ricercar primi Toni, ex G b-moll
This Ricercar primi Toni, ex G b-moll, is the 24th composition from manuscript Ms. Lynar B3. As the title mentions, it is written in the first tone, on the tonal center of g. That...
Anonymus, Ricercar
Lohet’s Fuga Prima is left without indication of a composer in manuscripot Ms Lynar B3. The composition that follows it, a Ricercar primi Toni, is equally left without an indication of the comnposer. It...
M.W.C.B.M, O Mensch, bewein deine Sünde gross
In the Baroque era (and earlier) composers of (organ) music were in manuscripts often indicated by there initials, or not at all. Manuscripts were often shared and copied in circles of people who knew...
Anonymus (Johan Pieterszoon Sweelinck?), Fantasia
Yesterday I wrote that the choral bound works in manuscript Ms Lynar B3 are of greater quality than the free works. The free work from this manuscript I publish today, is not a good...