Piae Cantiones
Piae Cantiones. This collection of carols and songs was published in Greifswald, then part of Swedish territory, in 1582. It consisted of 74 items, arranged in 11 sections:
24 Cantiones for Christmas;
9 for Passion-tide and Easter;
1 for Pentecost;
3 for Trinity Sunday;
2 for Holy Communion;
4 ‘Songs of Prayer’;
14 on ‘the Frailty and Miseries of Human Life’ (‘De Fragilitate et Miseriis Humanae Conditionis’);
10 on School Life;
2 on Peace;
3 ‘Songs of History’; and
2 Carols for Spring.
The collection was edited by Theodoric Petri of Nyland (ca. 1560- ca. 1630), who came from an aristocratic family in Finland, and who was educated at Rostock. The collection was compiled while he was still...
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