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The 18th-Century Handwritten Amateur Music Books. A relatively neglected source of musical history
No full textChoral-Lieder... mit Variationes — Johann Ephraim Eggert’s Compositions for Saint Catherine’s Church Carillon in Gdańsk
No full textA manuscript entitled Choral-Lieder zu dem Glocken-Spiel der Altstädtschen Ober-Pfarr-Kirche zu St. Catharinen ausgesetzt mit Variationes, dated 1784 and containing pieces for the Saint Catherine’s church carillon, is kept in the State Archive in Gdansk. The manuscript contains 260 compositions based on a protestant chorale. They are grouped in two sections entitled Lieder zur ganzen Stunde and Lieder zur halben Stunde, i.e. songs for playing at full and half hours. In all, the manuscript contains 130 three-minute compositions to be played at full hours and 128 ninety-second compositions to be played at half hours. The fi rst part of the manuscript also contains two 15-second quarter-hour preludes. The works were written by Johann Ephraim Eggert, a St. Catherine’s church carillonist. The paper discusses the structure of the compositions. Despite what the title suggests, not all compositions are in the form of variations. Of the 130 pieces designated to be played at full hours, 124 are indeed variations, but there are 5 in the form of chorale prelude, and 1 is a simple monophonic chorale. As for the half hour compositions, about 25% are variations and the remaining ones are chorale preludes. The author of the article presents characteristic features of Eggert’s compositions. Discussing variations, she examines the ways of presenting the themes, texture, variation technique resources, and also types of variations. In the chorale preludes, she focuses on the ways of treatment. The author also points to the fact that the forms of Eggert’s compositions and his use of technical resources result from the carillon’s design
Gdańsk carillon tablatures
No full textThe music collections of Gdańsk State Archive include music written for the automatic carillon
of Gdańsk Main Town Hall. These are four tablatures with a unique notation system that appears only in
Gdańsk sources. The oldest tablature (consisting of four volumes) was produced in the years 1769–1775; two
others (one volume each) were copied in 1775 and 1776; the fourth was compiled in the years 1808–1812.
The tablatures contain a total of 653 chorale settings. Their author was Theodor Friedrich Gülich, who
programmed the Town Hall carillon from 1764 to 1776.
The Main Town Hall carillon played the chorales every hour. Two different chorales could be programmed
on the carillon drum simultaneously. A longer chorale signalled the passing of an even-numbered
hour and a shorter chorale an odd-numbered hour. The chorales were changed every Saturday.
The four-volume tablature contains chorale settings for the whole year, settings of funeral hymns and
instructions for changing the chorales on the carillon drum and programming chorales for special
occasions (such as the arrival of the king, the death of a prominent fi gure, such as the monarch, the
mayor, a city councillor or a councillor’s wife, and elections to the City Council, as well as the opening
and closing of St Dominic’s Fair). One of the single-volume tablatures includes Old Lutheran Church
songs, another has Reformed Evangelical Church songs, and the fourth tablature contains chorales
arranged for successive weeks of the year.
This article presents the Gdańsk carillon tablatures and explains the principles behind their musical
notation
Gdańsk carillon tablatures
No full textThe music collections of Gdańsk State Archive include music written for the automatic carillon of Gdańsk Main Town Hall. These are four tablatures with a unique notation system that appears only in Gdańsk sources. The oldest tablature (consisting of four volumes) was produced in the years 1769-1775; two others (one volume each) were copied in 1775 and 1776; the fourth was compiled in the years 1808-1812. The tablatures contain a total of 653 chorale settings. Their author was Theodor Friedrich Giilich, who programmed the Town Hall carillon from 1764 to 1776. The Main Town Hall carillon played the chorales every hour. Two different chorales could be programmed on the carillon drum simultaneously. A longer chorale signalled the passing of an even-numbered hour and a shorter chorale an odd-numbered hour. The chorales were changed every Saturday. The four-volume tablature contains chorale settings for the whole year, settings of funeral hymns and instructions for changing the chorales on the carillon drum and programming chorales for special occasions (such as the arrival of the king, the death of a prominent figure, such as the monarch, the mayor, a city councillor or a councillor’s wife, and elections to the City Council, as well as the opening and closing of St Dominic’s Fair). One of the single-volume tablatures includes Old Lutheran Church songs, another has Reformed Evangelical Church songs, and the fourth tablature contains chorales arranged for successive weeks of the year. This article presents the Gdańsk carillon tablatures and explains the principles behind their musical notation
Dziennik Paula Friedricha Knaacka z 1811 roku - przyczynek do historii Wolnego Miasta Gdańska
No full textThis paper is the first presentation of the diary of Paul Friedrich Knaack from 1811 – Tagebuch vom Jahre 1811 – a previously unknown historical source, which is currently privately owned. The author of the diary was a watchmaker, tuner of the bells of the carillon of the Main Town Hall in Gdańsk, as well as a copyist of a manuscript containing arrangements of Protestant songs for the Town Hall’s automaton. In his diary, he recorded what he did every day of 1811 and somehow incidentally wrote what happened around him. We have thus received a multicolour picture of the daily life in the Napoleonic Free City of Gdańsk at the threshold of the subsequent changes in its political life. The content of Knaack’s diary allows us to complement his biography and correct some facts on him given in relevant literature. However, this does not mean that the entire curriculum vitae of the Gdańsk watchmaker and bell tuner has already been explained
Eine Untersuchung des Verhältnisses zwischen mechanischen Glockenspielen und Aufführungspraxis
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Carillons and Carillon Music in Old Gdańsk
No full textThe history of Gdańsk carillons begins in 1561. It was that year that fourteen automatic bells were installed in the Main Town Hall. Later, a "striking mechanism" appeared in St Catherine’s Church. This magnificent instrument, consisting of thirty-five bells, has been in use since 1738. The third carillon was built in 1939 in the youth hostel at Biskupia Górka. The play of Gdańsk carillons was interrupted by the Second World War. The book discusses the history and music of Gdańsk carillons. It contains valuable information on bells, carillon mechanisms, bell founders, carillonists, and bell setters, inviting the reader to study the Protestant repertoire, the unique notation of preserved manuscripts, and the remarkable soundscape of Gdańsk, which for centuries has been marked by the sound of carillons
Carillons and Carillon Music in Old Gdańsk
No full textThe history of Gdańsk carillons begins in 1561. It was that year that fourteen automatic bells were installed in the Main Town Hall. Later, a "striking mechanism" appeared in St Catherine’s Church. This magnificent instrument, consisting of thirty-five bells, has been in use since 1738. The third carillon was built in 1939 in the youth hostel at Biskupia Górka. The play of Gdańsk carillons was interrupted by the Second World War. The book discusses the history and music of Gdańsk carillons. It contains valuable information on bells, carillon mechanisms, bell founders, carillonists, and bell setters, inviting the reader to study the Protestant repertoire, the unique notation of preserved manuscripts, and the remarkable soundscape of Gdańsk, which for centuries has been marked by the sound of carillons
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