Meister der Norddeutschen Orgelschule

The title page for the first volume of MdNO

Meister der Norddeutschen Orgelschule (en: Masters of the North German School for Organ, abbreviated MdNO) is a series published by Edition Schott. It resulted in 36 volumes published between 2003-2015. All volumes were edited by Klaus Beckmann or Claudia Schumacher, and included the complete organ works of many prominent composers such as Hieronymus Praetorius (vol. 1-3), Heinrich Scheidemann (vol. 8-10, 22) and Dietrich Buxtehude (vol.25-28).

Editorial Style

Both Klaus Beckmann and Claudia Schumacher adhere to the editorial practice of highly editing the source material while listing all original readings in text form at the end of the volume. For this reason, this series can be considered suitable for performance as well as scholarly use^{[Citation needed]}.

The series uses the scholarly practice of original beaming, in which the beaming of the original source in staff notation is copied and the rhythmic groupings in tablature notation are represented by beams.

Meister der Norddeutschen Orgelschule uses incipits to show the original clefs and staff layout for original sources in staff notation and the Klaus Beckmann method^{[Citation needed]} of notating music originally in tablature notation, in which a white vertical bar is inserted either to the left or right of the time signature to designate the key signature and/or the time signature as editorial additions.

The practice of notating barlines (especially with respect to pieces originall in tablature notation) varies by edition. In some editions of MdNO (such as the organ works of Franz Tunder, in which all surviving sources are in tablature notation), all barlines are dotted and the pieces are given an editorial common-time or cut-time signature. In other volumes (such as the organ works by Heinrich Scheidemann or Hieronymus Praetorius), most pieces without a time signature are given a double-cut-time signature and the barlines are alternating dotted and solid (to signify the brevetactus^{[Citation needed]}).

Contents

Contents of MdNO

MdNO	Composer	Notes
1	Hieronymus Praetorius	Magnificat cycles, chorale fantasias
2	Hieronymus Praetorius	Hymn cycles
3	Hieronymus Praetorius	Kyrie/sequentia/magnificat germanice
4	Johann Steffens
5	Melchior Schildt
6	Jakob Praetorius
7	Johann Praetorius
8	Heinrich Scheidemann	Chorale works
9	Heinrich Scheidemann	Magnificat settings
10	Heinrich Scheidemann	Free organ works
11	Johann Adam Reincken
12	Vincent Lübeck, Jr., Vincent Lübeck, Sr.
13	Nicolaus Bruhns, Arnold Matthias Brunckhorst	First edition of vol. 13 was only Bruhns[Citation needed]
14	Delphin Strunck
15	Nikolaus Adam Strunck
16	Nikolaus Hasse
17	Franz Tunder
18	Theophil Andreas Volckmar
19	Peter Morhard
20	Paul Siefert
21	Michael Praetorius
22	Heinrich Scheidemann	Motet intabulations
23	Matthias Weckmann	Chorale settings
24	Matthias Weckmann	Free organ works
25	Dietrich Buxtehude	Free organ works pt.1
26	Dietrich Buxtehude	Free organ works pt.2
27	Dietrich Buxtehude	Chorale settings pt.1
28	Dietrich Buxtehude	Chorale settings pt.2
29	20 free works of the North German School
30	20 choral settings of the North German School
31	Andreas Kneller, Georg Dietrich Leyding
32	Georg Böhm
33	Samuel Scheidt	Tabulatura Nova pt.1
34	Samuel Scheidt	Tabulatura Nova pt.2
35	Samuel Scheidt	Tabulatura Nova pt.3
36	Samuel Scheidt	Görlitz Tablature Book

Notes

The 13th volume of this series originally only contained works by Nicolaus Bruhns, his four organ works (including Nun komm der Heiden Heiland) and the Prelude in G Minor. However, it was re-released as a Bruhns-Brunckhorst double-issue after the G Minor prelude was connected to Brunckhorst. (See Prelude in G Minor)

References

www.schott-music.com, accessed 21 July, 2023.