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Michael Praetorius's Theology of Music in Syntagma Musicum I (1615): a Politically and Confessionally Motivated Defense of Instruments in the Lutheran Liturgy
MICHAEL PRAETORIUS'S THEOLOGY OF MUSIC IN SYNTAGMA MUSICUM I (1615): A POLITICALLY AND CONFESSIONALLY MOTIVATED DEFENSE OF INSTRUMENTS IN THE LUTHERAN LITURGY Zachary Alley A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF MUSIC August 2014 Committee: Arne Spohr, Advisor Mary Natvig ii ABSTRACT Arne Spohr, Advisor The use of instruments in the liturgy was a controversial issue in the early church and remained at the center of debate during the Reformation. Michael Praetorius (1571-1621), a Lutheran composer under the employment of Duke Heinrich Julius of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, made the most significant contribution to this perpetual debate in publishing Syntagma musicum I—more substantial than any Protestant theologian including Martin Luther. Praetorius's theological discussion is based on scripture, the discourse of early church fathers, and Lutheran theology in defending the liturgy, especially the use of instruments in Syntagma musicum I. In light of the political and religious instability throughout Europe it is clear that Syntagma musicum I was also a response—or even a potential solution—to political circumstances, both locally and in the Holy Roman Empire. In the context of the strengthening counter-reformed Catholic Church in the late sixteenth century, Lutheran territories sought support from Reformed church territories (i.e., Calvinists). This led some Lutheran princes to gradually grow more sympathetic to Calvinism or, in some cases, officially shift confessional systems. In Syntagma musicum I Praetorius called on Lutheran leaders—prince-bishops named in the dedication by territory— specifically several North German territories including Brandenburg and the home of his employer in Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, to maintain Luther's reforms and defend the church they were entrusted to protect, reminding them that their salvation was at stake. -
Going for a Song
FESTIVALS GOING FOR A SONG The Brighton Early Music Festival 2012 celebrates its 10th birthday in 2012. Known for its lively and inspiring programming, this year’s highlights include its most spectacular production yet: ‘The 1589 Florentine Intermedi’. Organisers promise ‘a thrilling experience with all sorts of surprises.’ For more information, see http://www.bremf.org.uk Photo: ©BREMF Cambridge Early Music Italian Festival 28-30 September Italy was the source of many of the musical innovations of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and CEM’s Festival of Italian Music explores this fertile period, welcoming some of Europe’s foremost performers of these genres. It was exactly 300 years ago that Vivaldi published his ground-breaking set of 12 Julian Perkins, one of the leaders of the new concertos, L’Estro Armonico generation of virtuoso keyboard players in the (The Birth of Harmony), which UK, will play Frescobaldi and the Scarlattis – La Serenissima (pictured), the father and son – in a lunchtime clavichord Vivaldi orchestra par excellence, recital on 30 September. will be playing with terrific verve and style. www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org tel. 01223 847330 Come and Play! Lorraine Liyanage, who runs a piano school in south London, has always been intrigued by the harpsichord. Inspired by a colleague to introduce the instrument to her young students in her home, she tells how the experiment has gone from strength to strength – and led to the purchase of a spinet that fits obligingly in her bay window… 10 ast Summer, I received an email from Petra Hajduchova, a local musician enquiring about the possibility of teaching at my piano school. -
News from Around the Region Geraldine Elliott, Director North
Geraldine Elliott, Director North Central Region, AHS 753 Crestwood Dr. Waukesha, WI 53188 262.547.8539 [email protected] A tax-exempt non-profit corporation founded in 1962 Greetings to All Harpists in the North Central Region. I am honored to be your Regional Director at this exciting time in the life of the American Harp Society. Please let me know how I can facilitate communications between and among harpists in the Region. This Newsletter is one means of spreading the word among all the chapters in the Region, but it comes only once a year. There will be a second, email-only, message in the spring, so it is vitally important that we have accurate email addresses for all harpists. We send this newsletter to let you know about harp-happenings that are closer and less expensive (some are even free!) than the National meetings that are coming up. Please let me know of new items that arise so I can include them in the spring email blast. And donʼt forget to send me your accurate email address. THE AMERICAN HARP SOCIETY 9TH SUMMER INSTITUTE AND 19TH NATIONAL COMPETITION JUNE 19-23, 2011 THE LYON AND HEALY AWARDS JUNE 18-19, 2011 DENTON, TX (DALLAS/FT. WORTH AREA) WWW.MUSIC.UNT.EDU/HARP The University of North Texas welcomes the American Harp Society to enjoy a wonderful week. All events will be geared towards students and will include master classes, workshops, ensemble performances and viewing of historic harps. Performances will feature harpists of the Southwest and Emily Mitchell, guest artist and Heidi Van Hoesen Gorton, the AHS Concert Artist, and Michael Colgrass will be guest clinician. -
A History of British Music Vol 1
A History of Music in the British Isles Volume 1 A History of Music in the British Isles Other books from e Letterworth Press by Laurence Bristow-Smith e second volume of A History of Music in the British Isles: Volume 1 Empire and Aerwards and Harold Nicolson: Half-an-Eye on History From Monks to Merchants Laurence Bristow-Smith The Letterworth Press Published in Switzerland by the Letterworth Press http://www.eLetterworthPress.org Printed by Ingram Spark To © Laurence Bristow-Smith 2017 Peter Winnington editor and friend for forty years ISBN 978-2-9700654-6-3 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Contents Acknowledgements xi Preface xiii 1 Very Early Music 1 2 Romans, Druids, and Bards 6 3 Anglo-Saxons, Celts, and Harps 3 4 Augustine, Plainsong, and Vikings 16 5 Organum, Notation, and Organs 21 6 Normans, Cathedrals, and Giraldus Cambrensis 26 7 e Chapel Royal, Medieval Lyrics, and the Waits 31 8 Minstrels, Troubadours, and Courtly Love 37 9 e Morris, and the Ballad 44 10 Music, Science, and Politics 50 11 Dunstable, and la Contenance Angloise 53 12 e Eton Choirbook, and the Early Tudors 58 13 Pre-Reformation Ireland, Wales, and Scotland 66 14 Robert Carver, and the Scottish Reformation 70 15 e English Reformation, Merbecke, and Tye 75 16 John Taverner 82 17 John Sheppard 87 18 omas Tallis 91 19 Early Byrd 101 20 Catholic Byrd 108 21 Madrigals 114 22 e Waits, and the eatre 124 23 Folk Music, Ravenscro, and Ballads 130 24 e English Ayre, and omas Campion 136 25 John Dowland 143 26 King James, King Charles, and the Masque 153 27 Orlando Gibbons 162 28 omas -
Instrument Descriptions
RENAISSANCE INSTRUMENTS Shawm and Bagpipes The shawm is a member of a double reed tradition traceable back to ancient Egypt and prominent in many cultures (the Turkish zurna, Chinese so- na, Javanese sruni, Hindu shehnai). In Europe it was combined with brass instruments to form the principal ensemble of the wind band in the 15th and 16th centuries and gave rise in the 1660’s to the Baroque oboe. The reed of the shawm is manipulated directly by the player’s lips, allowing an extended range. The concept of inserting a reed into an airtight bag above a simple pipe is an old one, used in ancient Sumeria and Greece, and found in almost every culture. The bag acts as a reservoir for air, allowing for continuous sound. Many civic and court wind bands of the 15th and early 16th centuries include listings for bagpipes, but later they became the provenance of peasants, used for dances and festivities. Dulcian The dulcian, or bajón, as it was known in Spain, was developed somewhere in the second quarter of the 16th century, an attempt to create a bass reed instrument with a wide range but without the length of a bass shawm. This was accomplished by drilling a bore that doubled back on itself in the same piece of wood, producing an instrument effectively twice as long as the piece of wood that housed it and resulting in a sweeter and softer sound with greater dynamic flexibility. The dulcian provided the bass for brass and reed ensembles throughout its existence. During the 17th century, it became an important solo and continuo instrument and was played into the early 18th century, alongside the jointed bassoon which eventually displaced it. -
Five Late Baroque Works for String Instruments Transcribed for Clarinet and Piano
Five Late Baroque Works for String Instruments Transcribed for Clarinet and Piano A Performance Edition with Commentary D.M.A. Document Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Musical Arts in the Graduate School of the The Ohio State University By Antoine Terrell Clark, M. M. Music Graduate Program The Ohio State University 2009 Document Committee: Approved By James Pyne, Co-Advisor ______________________ Co-Advisor Lois Rosow, Co-Advisor ______________________ Paul Robinson Co-Advisor Copyright by Antoine Terrell Clark 2009 Abstract Late Baroque works for string instruments are presented in performing editions for clarinet and piano: Giuseppe Tartini, Sonata in G Minor for Violin, and Violoncello or Harpsichord, op.1, no. 10, “Didone abbandonata”; Georg Philipp Telemann, Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Harpsichord, Twv 41:g1, and Sonata in D Major for Solo Viola da Gamba, Twv 40:1; Marin Marais, Les Folies d’ Espagne from Pièces de viole , Book 2; and Johann Sebastian Bach, Violoncello Suite No.1, BWV 1007. Understanding the capabilities of the string instruments is essential for sensitively translating the music to a clarinet idiom. Transcription issues confronted in creating this edition include matters of performance practice, range, notational inconsistencies in the sources, and instrumental idiom. ii Acknowledgements Special thanks is given to the following people for their assistance with my document: my doctoral committee members, Professors James Pyne, whose excellent clarinet instruction and knowledge enhanced my performance and interpretation of these works; Lois Rosow, whose patience, knowledge, and editorial wonders guided me in the creation of this document; and Paul Robinson and Robert Sorton, for helpful conversations about baroque music; Professor Kia-Hui Tan, for providing insight into baroque violin performance practice; David F. -
Fomrhi-110.Pdf
v^uaneny INO. nu, iNovcmDer ^uuo FoMRHI Quarterly BULLETIN 110 Christopher Goodwin 2 COMMUNICATIONS 1815 On frets and barring; some useful ideas David E McConnell 5 1816 Modifications to recorder blocks to improve sound production Peter N Madge 9 1817 What is wrong with Vermeer's guitar Peter Forrester 20 1818 A new addition to the instruments of the Mary Rose Jeremy Montagu 24 181*9 Oud or lute? - a study J Downing 25 1820 Some parallels in the ancestry of the viol and violin Ephraim Segerman 30 1821 Notes on the polyphont Ephraim Segerman 31 1822 The 'English' in English violette Ephraim Segerman 34 1823 The identity of tlie lirone Ephraim Segerman 35 1824 On the origins of the tuning peg and some early instrument name:s E Segerman 36 1825 'Twined' strings for clavichords Peter Bavington 38 1826 Wood fit for a king? An investigation J Downing 43 1827 Temperaments for gut-strung and gut-fretted instruments John R Catch 48 1828 Reply to Hebbert's Comm. 1803 on early bending method Ephraim Segerman 58 1829 Reply to Peruffo's Comm. 1804 on gut strings Ephraim Segerman 59 1830 Reply to Downing's Comm. 1805 on silk/catgut Ephraim Segerman 71 1831 On stringing of lutes (Comm. 1807) and guitars (Comms 1797, 8) E Segerman 73 1832 Tapered lute strings and added mas C J Coakley 74 1833 Review: A History of the Lute from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Douglas Alton Smith (Lute Society of America, 2002) Ephraim Segerman 77 1834 Review: Die Renaissanceblockfloeten der Sammlung Alter Musikinstrumenten des Kunsthistorisches Museums (Vienna, 2006) Jan Bouterse 83 The next issue, Quarterly 111, will appear in February 2009. -
DARKWOODS MAILORDER CATALOGUE March 2018
DARKWOODS MAILORDER CATALOGUE March 2018 DARKWOODS PAGAN BLACK METAL DI STRO / LABEL [email protected] www.darkwoods.eu Next you will find a full list with all available items in our mailorder catalogue alphabetically ordered... With the exception of the respective cover, we have included all relevant information about each item, even the format, the releasing label and the reference comment... This catalogue is updated every month, so it could not reflect the latest received products or the most recent sold-out items... please use it more as a reference than an updated list of our products... CDS / MCDS / SGCDS 1349 - Beyond the Apocalypse [CD] 11.95 EUR Second smash hit of the Norwegians 1349, nine outstanding tracks of intense, very fast and absolutely brutal black metal is what they offer us with “Beyond the Apocalypse”, with Frost even more a beast behind the drum set here than in Satyricon, excellent! [Released by Candlelight] 1349 - Demonoir [CD] 11.95 EUR Fifth full-length album of this Norwegian legion, recovering in one hand the intensity and brutality of the fantastic “Hellfire” but, at the same time, continuing with the experimental and sinister side of their music introduced in their previous work, “Revelations of the Black Flame”... [Released by Indie Recordings] 1349 - Liberation [CD] 11.95 EUR Fantastic debut full-length album of the Nordic hordes 1349 leaded by Frost (Satyricon), ten tracks of furious, violent and merciless black metal is what they show us in "Liberation", ten straightforward tracks of pure Norwegian black metal, superb! [Released by Candlelight] 1349 - Massive Cauldron of Chaos [CD] 11.95 EUR Sixth full-length album of the Norwegians 1349, with which they continue this returning path to their most brutal roots that they started with the previous “Demonoir”, perhaps not as chaotic as the title might suggested, but we could place it in the intermediate era of “Hellfire”.. -
Guide to the Dowd Harpsichord Collection
Guide to the Dowd Harpsichord Collection NMAH.AC.0593 Alison Oswald January 2012 Archives Center, National Museum of American History P.O. Box 37012 Suite 1100, MRC 601 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 [email protected] http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Biographical / Historical.................................................................................................... 2 Arrangement..................................................................................................................... 2 Scope and Contents........................................................................................................ 2 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 3 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 4 Series 1: William Dowd (Boston Office), 1958-1993................................................ 4 Series 2 : General Files, 1949-1993........................................................................ 8 Series 3 : Drawings and Design Notes, 1952 - 1990............................................. 17 Series 4 : Suppliers/Services, 1958 - 1988........................................................... -
Lutheran Theological Structure of the Troped Magnificats of Michael Praetorius’S Megalynodia Sionia Adrian D
Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology Volume 10 Article 2 Issue 1 Current Issue: Volume 10, Issue 1 (2017) In coelo et in terra: Lutheran Theological Structure of the Troped Magnificats of Michael Praetorius’s Megalynodia Sionia Adrian D. J. Ross University of Toronto Recommended Citation Ross, Adrian D. J. () "In coelo et in terra: Lutheran Theological Structure of theT roped Magnificats of Michael Praetorius’s Megalynodia Sionia," Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology: Vol. 10: Iss. 1, Article 2. In coelo et in terra: Lutheran Theological Structure of the Troped Magnificats of Michael Praetorius’s Megalynodia Sionia Abstract Michael Praetorius (1571–1621) ranks among the most prolific German musical figures of the seventeenth century. Despite his stature, many of his works, especially his earlier collections, remain largely understudied and underperformed. This paper examines one such early collection, the Megalynodia Sionia, composed in 1602, focussing on the relationship between formal structure of its first three Magnificat settings and the Lutheran theological ideal of uniting the Word of God with music. Structurally, these three Magnificats are distinguished by their interpolation of German chorales within the Latin text. In order to understand his motivations and influences behind the use of this technique unique at the time of composition, the paper explores Praetorius’s religious surroundings in both the personal and civic realms, revealing a strong tradition of orthodox Lutheran theology. To understand the music in light of this religious context, certain orthodox Lutheran liturgical practices are examined, in particular the Vespers service and alternatim, a compositional technique using alternating performing forces which Praetorius used to unite the Latin and German texts. -
Arts at St. Bede's
Sunday, October 25 San Francisco Renaissance Voices – Viva Italia! oin us for music from Italy’s great castles, cathedrals, Arts at St. Bede’s and countryside, featuring Palestrina’s Missa Nasce Jla gioa mia for six voices, madrigals by Aleotti, Asola, 2015 – 2016 Season Casulana, Croce, Marenzio, Primavera, Striggio, and Vecchi, and commedia dell’arte dance solos featuring SFRV Dance Director Jennifer Meller. St. Bede’s Episcopal Church At door: $30 general/$25 senior/$25 student/$15 under-12 Thomas Pacha Photo: 2650 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park For more info & advance purchase, see www.sfrvoices.org Sunday, December 13 All performances are at 4:00pm Sunday, November 8 Kitka – Wintersongs Collage Vocal Ensemble – Heavenly Bodies intersongs showcases seasonal music from a wide his Los Altos-base chamber choir, under variety of Eastern European ethnic and spiritual Sunday, September 27 the direction of Amy Hunn, celebrates the Wtraditions. Kitka’s program features rousing Slavic folk St. Bede’s Choir – Fall Evensong Tbeauty and power of bodies both celestial and carols, meditative Eastern and Bosnian-Muslim sacred physical, and features works by Monteverdi, oaring chant, stirring hymnody, works, pagan incantations, Hebrew songs, and lively Mozart, Urmas Sisask, Jonathan Dove, and and dramatic poetry will highlight Romany tunes, all inspired by the customs, beauty, and the Beatles. www.collagevocalensemble.org this Service of Light, which welcomes mystery of wintertime. S $15 suggested donation benefitsInnVision Shelter Network the lengthening shadows of autumn At door: $40 center-front/$35 general/$30 senior/$15 student For more info & advance purchase, see www.kitka.org with a bounteous harvest of music by Sunday, November 22 Hildegard von Bingen, Sister Élise, and Libby Larsen. -
Medieval Music for Celtic Harp Pdf Free Download
MEDIEVAL MUSIC FOR CELTIC HARP PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Star Edwards | 40 pages | 01 Jan 2010 | Mel Bay Publications | 9780786657339 | English | United States Medieval Music for Celtic Harp PDF Book Close X Learn about Digital Video. Unde et ibi quasi fontem artis jam requirunt. An elegy to Sir Donald MacDonald of Clanranald, attributed to his widow in , contains a very early reference to the bagpipe in a lairdly setting:. In light of the recent advice given by the government regarding COVID, please be aware of the following announcement from Royal Mail advising of changes to their services. The treble end had a tenon which fitted into the top of the com soundbox. Emer Mallon of Connla in action on the Celtic Harp. List of Medieval composers List of Medieval music theorists. Adam de la Halle. Detailed Description. Monophony was replaced from the fourteenth century by the Ars Nova , a movement that developed in France and then Italy, replacing the restrictive styles of Gregorian plainchant with complex polyphony. Allmand, T. Browse our Advice Topics. Location: optional. The urshnaim may refer to the wooden toggle to which a string was fastened once it had emerged from its hole in the soundboard. Password recovery. The early history of the triangular frame harp in Europe is contested. This word may originally have described a different stringed instrument, being etymologically related to the Welsh crwth. Also: Alasdair Ross discusses that all the Scottish harp figures were copied from foreign drawings and not from life, in 'Harps of Their Owne Sorte'? One wonderful resource is the Session Tunes.