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"A choice selection of good old and new German songs in typical German style to be used with
all kinds of instruments" - under this title Georg Forster (1514 - 1568), doctor, composer and
collector of music, published his still unsurpassed collection of German renaissance songs, the
predominant musical genre in the art of singing in courtly and bourgeois society during the 16th
century. It was also the first independent contribution by German composers in their own
language to appear on a European music scene previously dominated by Franco-Flemish and
Italian masters. Here an entertaining cross-section of this repertoire.