Editing Medieval music (section)

===Germany: ''Geisslerlieder''===
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The [[Geisslerlieder]] were the songs of wandering bands of [[flagellant]]s, who sought to appease the wrath of an angry God by penitential music accompanied by mortification of their bodies. There were two separate periods of activity of Geisslerlied: one around the middle of the thirteenth century, from which, unfortunately, no music survives (although numerous lyrics do); and another from 1349, for which both words and music survive intact due to the attention of a single priest who wrote about the movement and recorded its music. This second period corresponds to the spread of the [[Black Death]] in Europe, and documents one of the most terrible events in European history. Both periods of Geisslerlied activity were mainly in Germany.