Musicalische Neu-Jahrs-Gedichte von der Music-Gesellschaft auf der Teutschen Schul in Zürich - Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft Zürich (Switzerland); Füssli, Johann Melchior 1677-1736; Füssli, Johann Rudolph 1709-1793; Freytag, Johann Heinrich 1702-1781; Holzhalb, Johann Rudolph 1723-1806 (Zürich Deutsche Schule, 1714)
In the 17th century music in Zürich was dominated by three collegia musica: the first was ‘zum Chorherrensaal’, followed by the ‘ab dem Musiksaal’ (from 1613) and ‘zur deutschen Schule’ (from 1679). Initially they were concerned only with sacred music, but later also performed contemporary German and Italian secular music. The three societies merged in 1812 to form the Allgemeine Musikgesellschaft Zürich (AMGZ), which since 1813 has produced books on musical subjects in a series of ‘Neujahrsblättern’, the successors to a series of New Year collections of polyphonic pieces published by two of the collegia musica from 1685 and 1713 respectively.
See 04J20, 04J21, 10B20, 11H13, G1-027 and G1-028 for similar collections
Each year between 1713 and 1740 has a New Year's poem and a song with an engraved frontispiece (‘Kupfer-Blatt') bound in, numbered I-XXVIII, but paginated continuously
The poems and plates deal predominantly with music, e.g. Jubal's invention of music
Most songs have Cantus I and Bassus on left page, Cantus II and Altus on right page, but some are for two sopranos only, whose parts face each other; still others have a basso continuo (bassus generalis) part for 'organum'
Digitized by the Ghent University Library, December 2020
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