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Chez Schedel: Nuremberg, 1466
Chez Schedel is a research-led performance project in which we construct an imaginary social event with music in the circle of Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514) in Nuremberg, 1466 (after his return from studies in Padua). The project is centred around the intersection of three manuscripts which share an especially large number of concordances, and which all have connections to Nuremberg, via their scribes or their contents: the Schedel Songbook (begun during Schedel’s studies in Leipzig), the Lochamer Songbook, and the Buxheim Organ Book.
These manuscripts and related sources give many insights into localised performance practice: I expand on my previous research regarding performer’s accidentals and keyboard temperament to include ornamental variants, favoured cadential structures, improvisation practice, contrafacta of foreign-language texts, and performance context. All three manuscripts are important sources for German-language song, with many pieces unique to them, and Buxheim and Schedel also function as collections of internationally-popular pieces, subjected to local variation. In this project, I am not concerned with reconstructing an ideal performance, but rather I ask: what might Du Fay’s Mille bonjours have sounded like, in Schedel’s Nuremberg? Who might have performed it, and how? Who might have heard it, and what was the social context (and what were they eating?). I also present new evidence strengthening the possible Nuremberg connections of Buxheim.
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- MacRobert Building
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