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Edith Cowan University Research Online Theses : Honours Theses 2010 Music for trumpet and cornetto in the Duben collection Breanna Michelle Evangelista Edith Cowan University Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses_hons Part of the Musicology Commons Recommended Citation Evangelista, B. M. (2010). Music for trumpet and cornetto in the Duben collection. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ theses_hons/1373 This Thesis is posted at Research Online. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses_hons/1373 Edith Cowan University Copyright Warning You may print or download ONE copy of this document for the purpose of your own research or study. The University does not authorize you to copy, communicate or otherwise make available electronically to any other person any copyright material contained on this site. You are reminded of the following: Copyright owners are entitled to take legal action against persons who infringe their copyright. A reproduction of material that is protected by copyright may be a copyright infringement. A court may impose penalties and award damages in relation to offences and infringements relating to copyright material. Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form. Music for Trumpet and Cornetta in the Diiben Collection Breanna Michelle Evangelista B.Mus (ECU) Academic Paper In Partial Fulfilment for the Degree of B.Mus Honours Faculty of Education and the Arts Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts Edith Cowan University Submitted 18 November 2010 USE OF THESIS The Use of Thesis statement is not included in this version of the thesis. Abstract This dissertation aims to bring to light, and to categorise, the music for trumpet and cornetto contained in the great manuscript collection at Uppsala University, the so called Diiben collection. The dissertation will divide into four clear sections. After an introductory chapter on the Diiben collection itself, chapter two will give an overview of the trumpet and cornetto music contained therein. This chapter - in addition to identifying composers, works and typical genres - will c!lso centre round issues of musical style and of the etymology of instruments. Chapter three will present two unpublished works in a modern critical edition, complete with introduction and commentary. A handlist of the trumpet and cornetto music available within the collection then follows. iii Declaration I certify that this thesis does not, to the best of my knowledge and belief: (i) incorporate without acknowledgement and material previously submitted for a degree or diploma in any institution of higher education; (ii) contain any material previously published or written by another person except where due reference is made in the text; or (iii) contain any defamatory material. I also grant permission for the Library at Edith Cowan University to make duplicate copies of my thesis as required. Breanna Michelle Evangelista iv Acknowledgements I wish to thank the following people: My supervisor Stewart Smith for all his support, guidance and assistance My trumpet teacher David Elton WA Academy of Performing Arts staff Adrian and Gina Evangelista v Table of Contents Chapter 1: The Diiben Collection 1 Chapter 2: An overview of the trumpet and cornetto music in the Diiben Collection i. the composers in the handlist 4 ii. the handlist explained 6 iii. genres and styles 9 Chapter 3: An edition of two works trumpet or cornetto in the Diiben Collection i. Editorial methods 11 ii. An anonymous sonata for Two Cornetti and Basso Continua a. introduction 12 b. plates: original manuscript facsimiles 14 c. edition 17 d. critical commentary 24 iii. Clemens Thieme Sonata a 8 a. introduction 25 b. plates: original manuscript facsimiles 28 c. edition 31 d. critical commentary 49 Appendix A handlist of trumpet and cornetto music in the Diiben Collection 51 Bibliography 105 vi Chapter 1 The Dilben Collection The Dilben Collection, housed at Uppsala University in Sweden, is one of Europe's largest and most important collections of manuscript music. The collection was assembled and subsequently donated to the university by the Dilben family in 1732.1 Until fairly recently access to this collection was difficult, and things certainly were not helped by the less-than-satisfactory catalogues of the collection.2 Since 2006 however, this situation has dramatically reversed, thanks to the Dilben Database Project. Undoubtedly one of the success stories relating to computing in the humanities, a team of researchers from the University of Uppsala joined forces with the noted Buxtehude scholar, Kerala Snyder from the Eastman School of Music in the USA, and together laid the foundations for this online catalogue of the Dilben collection. Not only are its records fully searchable via a relational database, the interface provides-and this is its most significant feature-full access to facsimile reproductions of the actual manuscripts themselves. The music in this collection, due to its relative geographical isolation, has been more talked about rather than studied, however all is now set to change, thanks to the Dilben Collection Database Catalogue. Studying original scores and parts can reveal intricate details of common practices and styles, and preliminary research into the scores containing music for trumpet and cornetto has shown that there is much to say that is both original and interesting. The music contained in the Dilben collection consists largely, though not exclusively, of manuscript parts of seventeenth-century concerted North German church music. Due to the fact that most of this repertoire remains to be 'scored up' and edited, research 1 The Dilben Collection website http://www.musik.uu.se/duben/Duben.php and Grove Music Online have detailed information both on the history ·of.the project and also on the Dilben family. 2 Geoffrey Webber, North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude, Oxford Monographs on Music. (New York: Clarendon Press, 1996). 197-198 1 into this corpus of materials is almost certain to produce new information. My editions ( chapter three) are of works hitherto unstudied and unpublished, and through these I aim to not only unearth music of artistic worth, but also to relate such music to the broader field of performance practice in relation to. seventeenth century music for trumpet and cornetto. The programme of musicological research conducted using the Diiben collection is extensive, and has resulted in a sizeable corpus of secondary literature ( especially in relation to Buxtehude).3 The Diiben Collection is one of the largest repositories of Buxtehude's manuscripts. Before being uploaded to the Internet, the Diiben Collection had already offered research into 17th century church music4 and the development of the cantata.5 In addition, a number of dissertations have been written on music found in the Diiben Collection, such as Sara Cathcart Ruhle's dissertation An Anonymous Seventeenth-Century German Oratorio In The Diiben Collection. The men of the Diiben family served as Hofkapellmeister over a span of eighty years at the Royal Swedish Court, and the Diiben collection is thought to represent what remains of the court's music library, from the reign of Queen Christina (beginning 1644) to Charles XII (ending 1718).6 The collection was first catalogued in the 1880s, however a complete published catalogue has had to wait until now. 7 The Diiben Collection contains manuscripts mainly from North and Central Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the Hanseatic cities. There are several prolific composers 3 Peter Wollny and Stephen Rose, "From Lubeck to Sweden: Thoughts and Observations on the Buxtehude Sources in the Diiben Collection," Early Music 35, no. 3 (2007). 4 Webber, North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude. · 5 Robert Inar Holst, "Toward a Stylistic History of the North German "Cantata" In the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century" (9542720, The University of Chicago, 1995). 6 Lars Berglund, "The Diiben Collection," (2006). 7 Sara Cathcart Ruhle, "An Anonymous Seventeenth-Century German Oratorio in the Diiben Collection"; Holst, "Toward a Stylistic History of the North German "Cantata" In the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century"; Kyhlberg Bengt and H. van Boer Berti!, "Diiben," Grove Music Online 2 within this collection such as Dietrich Buxtehude, Christoph Bernhard, Samuel Capricornus, Kaspar Forster Jr., Christian Geist and Augustin Pfleger. The works of these composers can help define the history of late 17th century Protestant church music before the development of the Church cantata in the 18th century.s A large proportion of manuscripts are vocal works (80%), with the remaining 20% being instrumental pieces.9 8 Stephen Rose, "Diiben Goes Digital," Early Music 34(2006). 9 Lars Berglund, "The Diiben Collection."; Stephen Rose, "Diiben Goes Digital," Early Music 34(2006) · 3 Chapter 2 An overview of the trumpet and cornetto music in the Di.iben Collection The composers in the handlist The composers represented in the Di.iben Collection are predominantly German, Austrian or Italian. There are eighty-three works written by forty-five identified composers and an additional eighteen works whose authorship is unknown. The works that have known ( or approximate) copy dates are centred around the last quarter of the 17th Century. Most composers in this catalogue were born around the mid 1600 with many from neighbouring regions in Central and Northern Germany.10 By examining the cities in which the composers were most prolific, certain similarities between compositional styles become apparent. This helps in studying the works contained therein as one can often relate the style of a little-known composer to that of a more distinguished one. Composers can generally be broken up into two categories. Those from Central Europe all exhibit compositional styles in line with Germanic traditions, influenced heavily by the art of fugue and counterpoint.11 In these works the organ and voice were favoured, particularly in music from Germany and Holland.