1. Rules and form
Meistersang (literally “master song,” “master singing”) was a mode of writing and performing song in accordance with a set of rules that was cultivated from the 14th to the 17th (occasionally 19th) centuries in Germany, chiefly the free imperial cities of southern Germany. Its exponents were mostly urban craftsmen, who presented their works in the context of popular gatherings. A song (the Bar), which following the m…