This volume is the first scholarly performing edition of the twenty-four German partsongs found in Johannes Eccard's Newe deutzsche Lieder (Mühlhausen, 1578), and sixteen of the pieces appear here for the first time in a modern edition. This collection connects Augsburg and Eccard's Fugger dedicatees to the potent musical atmosphere of Munich and the court where Lassus (Eccard's teacher) was kapellmeister for over thirty years. Unlike more prolific contemporaries like Lechner, de Vento, and Lass...