Faber, Heinrich

HEINRICH FABERFABER, HEINRICHHEINRICH FABER [before 1500-1552] For over one hundred years Heinrich Faber's Compendiolum musicae pro incipientibus (1548) remained a standard textbook for students in the Lutheran Latin schools of Germany. Both the original work and several translations contain a basic introduction to the practical matters of notes, notation, time, and modes, as well as music for practice in singing. In the various manuscript versions of his »Musica poetica,« Faber compared…