Audio for this episode will be available on Friday.

We're celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Tabulatura Nova, a pivotal collection of keyboard music by Samuel Scheidt published in 1624. The Tabulatura Nova contains 3 volumes of sacred and secular music that can be played on a variety of keyboard instruments. The title means “new tablature,” and is an allusion to the notation system Scheidt used to set his music. Previously, keyboard music in Germany was written with letter tablature. The Tabulatura Nova used an open score format on staff notation. Then, on our featured recording, ensemble Vox Luminis brings us a collection of Renaissance vocal music.

PLAYLIST

Samuel Scheidt Complete Organ Music Vol. 7
Michael Dierks
Fagott Records | F-3909-6 (2012)
Samuel Scheidt
Tr. 22 Echo no. 1 (4:52)

Segment A:

Samuel Scheidt: Tabulatura Nova (Volume 1)
Bernard Lagacé
Calliope | CAL4746 (1980)
Samuel Scheidt
Tr. 4 Vater unser im Himmelreich, SSWV 104 (10:29)

Tabulatura Nova I
Franz Raml
MDG | 614 115-2 (2003)
Samuel Scheidt
Disc 2 Tr. 8 Fantasia super “Ich ruffe zu dir Herr Jesu Christ” (6:27)

:59 Midpoint Break Music Bed:

Samuel Scheidt Complete Organ Music Vol. 7
Michael Dierks
Fagott Records | F-3909-6 (2012)
Samuel Scheidt
Tr. 23 Echo no. 2 (excerpt of 2:43)

Segment B:

Samuel Scheidt: Tabulatura Nova, Messe pour orgue
Bernard Lagace
Calliope | CAL4747 (1981)
Samuel Scheidt
Trs. 3 & 4 Magnificat 1 toni (8:25)
Tr. 6 Credo in unum Deum (3:50)

Samuel Scheidt Complete Organ Music Vol. 5
Christoph Lehmann
Fagott Records | F-3909-4 (2011)
Samuel Scheidt
Tr. 53 Benedicamus Domino, SSWV 158 (1:33)

Featured Release:

A Renaissance Collection
Vox Luminis
Ricercar | RIC155 (2020)
Tr. 19 Mogens Pedersøn: Deus misereatur nostri (5:17)
Tr. 17 Caspar Othmayr: Mein himmlischer Vater (5:06)
Tr. 12 Robert Fayrfax: Ah Robin (2:08)