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Arts & Humanities, Music, 1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing, 3603 Music, 3604 Performing arts

Abstract:

In 1984, Friedhelm Brusniak published an important contribution to the study of the works of the Nuremberg schoolmaster and composer Conrad Rein (c. 1475-1522) which, among other things, proposed that the anonymous Missa super Kyrie paschale in Regensburg, Bischöfliche Zentralbibliothek, Ms. C99, is actually a work of Rein's. The proposal, made on the basis of attributed partial concordances, was repeated, albeit in nuanced form, in Brusniak's 2005 MGG article on Rein. However, the discovery of a partial new source for the work and the identification of a number of previously unnoticed concordances for certain movements of the mass call Brusniak's attribution of the work into question. A thorough reassessment of the sources and of Rein's mass output leads to the conclusion that Rein did indeed compose a paschal mass, though not in the form identified by Brusniak, nor exactly in the form represented in any known surviving source. © Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart.