The Diapason Press

Tuning and Temperament Library

Friedrich Suppig

LABYRINTHUS MUSICUS

CALCULUS MUSICUS

Facsimile of the manuscripts
Paris, Bibliothèque du Conservatoire
Rés. F 211–212
(Dated Dresden, 24 June 1722)

edited by Rudolf Rasch

TTL 3

An interesting set of two manuscripts, both written in 1722 by an otherwise unknown person. The first manuscript contains an overlong ‘Fantasia’ for organ or harpsichord, which modulates through all 24 keys; the second is a treatise describing several tuning systems, (just intonation, the 31-tone system). With transcriptions and translations of the German texts.

1990
ISBN 90-70907-17-8 (paper)
192 pp.
15 x 21 cm
€40 or US$40

Contents

  Preface 7
     
Introduction
     
1. Biography 9
2. The manuscript 14
3. ‘Labyrinthus musicus’ 19
4. ‘Calculus musicus’ 25
5. Suppig’s 19-tone just intonation 28
6. Michael Bulyowsky 33
7. Suppig’s 31-tone tuning 38
8. The ‘Appendix’ of the ‘Labyrinthus musicus’ 41
9. Suppig’s significance 42
     
  Bibliography 45
     
Facsimiles
     
  Friedrich Suppig: Labyrinthus musicus 51
  Friedrich Suppig: Calculus musicus 129
     
Transcriptions
     
  Labyrinthus musicus 163
  Calculus musicus 168
     
Translations
     
  The musical labyrinth 175
  The musical calculus 179
     
  Index 187