ABSTRACT

Michael's ode settings from the 1526 edition are reprinted along with this Latin grammar, which deviates in a few passages from Billican's version. Michael's ode settings were released for the fourth and last time in Petrus Nigidius' Geminae undeviginti odarum Horatii melodiae, printed by Christian Egenolff in Frankfurt am Main. The word order in Michael's setting is different from that in the settings of Tritonius and Senfl. Michael's ode settings do not show the extravagance of Senfl's, which sometimes include a melisma in the form of a ligature on the last syllable of a setting. Theobald Billican, who initiated the composition of the settings, and whose name is closely linked to them, was an ambiguous figure in the early Reformation. The 1531 Marburg edition also contains a few changes in the musical repertoire. In 1533, only two years later, a further edition containing Michael's ode settings appeared in Marburg.