Codex Caioni

Responsibility: edited by Saviana Diamandi ; introductory studies by Saviana Diamandi, Ágnes Papp.
Language: Latin, German, Hungarian. Texted works in Latin (principally), German and Hungarian; introductions and commentaries in English, Hungarian, and Romanian; editorial report (v. 3) in English.
Imprint: București : Editura Muzicală a Uniunii Compozitorilor și Muzicologilor din România ; Budapest : MTA Zenetudományi Intézet, 1993-1994.
Physical description: 1 score (3 v.) ; 29 cm.
Series: Musicalia Danubiana, 0230-8223 ; 14/a-14/b

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Library has: v.1-3

Subject: Sacred vocal music > 16th century.; Sacred vocal music > 17th century.; Dance music > 17th century.; Organ music > 17th century.; Folk music > Hungary.; Folk music > Romania.; Music > Romania > Translyvania > 17th century.; Music > Hungary > 17th century.; Music > Manuscripts > Facsimiles.

Beginning date: 1993
Ending date: 1994
Note: Reproduces (v. 1) and provides (v. 2-3) a transcription in staff notation of a 17th cent. ms. in organ tablature in part compiled and written by János Kájoni, preserved in the Muzeul Judeţean Harghita, Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania, shelf 6199 (Cod. 35). Contains 16th and 17th cent. sacred polyphony (principally), instrumental dance music, settings of Hungarian and Romanian folk music, and organ (keyboard) music. The ms. is considered to reflect foreign and indigenous aspects of musical life in 17th-century Hungary, in a territory occupied by the modern states of Romania (Transylvania), Hungary, and Slovakia.; Vols. 2-3 also edited by Ágnes Papp.
ISBN: 9734201336 (v. 1); 9637074430 (v. 2-3, set); 9637074449 (v. 2); 9637074457 (v. 3); 9789734201334 (v. 1); 9789637074431 (v. 2-3, set); 9789637074448 (v. 2); 9789637074455 (v. 3)

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