Blob Opera w/subtitles: H. Isaac's "Innsbruck ich muss dich lassen"
Channel: mr. gecko
Date: 2021-05-30

BlobOpera with vaguely recognizable text.

Click CC for subtitles (hand crafted).

This is all 3 verses of Heinrich Isaac's beautiful song in which the singer expresses his hope that his lady won't sleep around while he's away. 

The middle verse is a Tenorlied (melody in the green blob). 

Based on https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/9/90/Innsbruck%2C_ich_mu%C3%9F_dich_lassen-ABA.pdf (without the octave transposition at the end of the 2nd verse)

German text handled by weird spellings and desperate adjustments to the musical notation in order to get some of the syllable-final consonants to sound. There was no way to sound the glottal stops which insure a nice separation between words (Innsbruck-ich, im-Elend) and I had to mush some words together to prevent sounds from dropping out.  

Fun fact: Isaac's first name varied with the language of the document (Henricus, Errigo, etc.) but no contemporary source lists it as Heinrich. That's the invention of modern German musicologists. His native Flemish would have had something like Hendrik, but maybe we should say Henry in English. Or Hank, if you're a friend.

blobtation: http://dustyfeet.com/blobopera/Innsbruck.pdf

made with Helio Machado's blobopera toolkit https://github.com/0x2b3bfa0/python-blobopera