IMPORTATION OR PARTICIPATION? REMARKS ON THE RECEPTION AND ADAPTATION OF THE GENRE 'MUSICA MORE ANTIQUE MENSURATA' IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY POLAND

Several composers adopted the style 'musica more antique mensurata' and the genre of metric ode, which initiation is usually ascribed to Konrad Celtes; both those musicians whose significance was merely local and prominent composers such as Hofhaimer, Senfl, Judenkunig. Polyphonic metric odes were composed throughout the 16th century in Central Europe - Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, as well as in Poland. In the latter repertory several groups could be distinguished according to the category of importation and participation.