Polish organ tablatures

Polish organ tablatures include some of the earliest and most important tablature sources of instrumental music in Europe. Particularly well-known is the Jan z Lublina tablature, which dates from mid-16th century and contains some 250 pieces. Most Polish organ tablatures use the German form of notation. The genres vary from all kinds of liturgical music to dances and vocal intabulations. This article presents a partial list of Polish organ tablatures, in chronological order.

Medieval

Source:

Augustinians' tablature from Żagań
Wrocław, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka I Qu 42
Wrocław, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka IF 687

Transcriptions of the above three sources can be found in the first volume of Corpus of Early Keyboard Music. In this volume, the library of these three manuscripts is listed as "Breslau, Staatsbibliothek".

Renaissance

Tablature by Jan z Lublina
Kraków tablature
Łowicz tablature
Gdańsk Tablature : 17 Phantasies, 1 prelude and 24 song arrangements for keyboard attributed to Cajus Schmiedtlein.
Toruń tablature
Samogitian tablature from Kražiai
Oliwa tablature, the 1st, another name is the Braunsberg tablature.

Baroque

Pelplin tablature
Vilnius tablature
Ostromeczew tablature
Warsaw tablature - the whole tablature was recorded by Rostislaw Wygranienko in 2006.

English

Apel, Willi. 1972. The History of Keyboard Music to 1700. Translated by Hans Tischler. Indiana University Press.. Originally published as Geschichte der Orgel- und Klaviermusik bis 1700 by Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel.
Inski, W. M.. 1964. The Cracow Tablature
White, John R.. 1963. The Tablature of Johannes of Lublin, MD, xvii, pp. 137–62.

Polish

Barbara Brzezińska. Repertuar polskich tabulatur organowych z pierwszej polowy XVI wieku.
Gołos, Jerzy. 1972. Polskie organy i muzyka organowa. Instytut Wydawniczy PAX.
Morawska, Katarzyna. 1998a. Historia muzyki polskiej: Średniowiecze, Sutkowski Edition Warsaw, 1998.
Morawska, Katarzyna. 1998b. Historia muzyki polskiej: Renesans, Sutkowski Edition Warsaw, 1998.
Poźniak, P.. 2004. Album Sapieżyńskie. Sub Sole Sarmatiae, Volume 9: Wileńska tabulatura organowa z XVII wieku obrazami żywota św. Franciszka zdobiona. Musica Iagellonica, Kraków.