Laurenz Lütteken: Die Macht der Namen. Autorzuschreibungen als Problem am
Beispiel des Codex Emmeram*
Extant
fifteenth-century music has customarily been viewed as an unbroken,
ever-expanding, linear progression of works bearing the names of composers.
This assessment, which has come to be doubted in recent years, has nonetheless
never been examined with regard to individual sources. One such source, D-Mbs
Clm 14274 (the so-called Emmeram codex), is both typical and atypical for the
first half of the fifteenth century. Using this MS as a point of reference, an
exhaustive study of the techniques applied to composer identification reveals
that the connection between work and individual composer name, however concretely
defined, is only one, and by no means the most significant, of several
possibilities.