Music in the Time of Tilman Riemenschneider

There is a positively international flavor to these Petrucci collections, as recognized composers took popular melodies and incorporated them into a more refined contrapuntal texture. In this way a robust tavern song such as Zenner, greiner (track 6) could find itself mixing in much more elevated company after transformation by two of the foremost German composers of the day, Heinrich Finck (track 7) and Paul Hofhaimer (track 8). Similarly, by the time such songs as Wir zogen in das feld (track 18), Alle furf (track 26)and Canto dei lanzi allegri (track 27) had found their way into printed collections, now in contrapuntal dress, they had come a long way from the camps of the mercenary soldiers who, perhaps many decades earlier, had been the first to sing them.