Product Description
Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) was one of the most versatile, wide-ranging, and prolific German composers of the seventeenth century. Also important as a theorist, his Syntagma Musicum, penned around 1619, was originally planned in four parts. He completed only three, with the first discussing the place of music in the church, while Volume II focused on musical instruments. Volume III deals with terminology, theoretical issues, and performance practice.
More than any other source from this period, Volume III provides the most thorough coverage of performance practice issues of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It offers detailed commentary about the performance of particular pieces of music, including many of Praetorius's own, as well as those by Lassus, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, and Schütz. Throughout, Praetorius offers immensely practical insights on numerous topics such as the definition and classification of vocal forms, the names and characteristics of instruments, arrangement of large-scale works for multiple choirs, description of ligatures, use of proportions, time signatures, transposition, teaching the Italian manner of singing, the types of ornamentation used in Italy in the first two decades of the seventeenth century-and much more.
Praetorius is the most often quoted and excerpted writer on performance practice. In this translation, musicologist and early music practitioner Jeffery T. Kite-Powell worked with notoriously difficult syntax to produce a definitive English edition of this important work. For modern scholars, this volume is the preeminent source of contemporary information on performance practice for the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. This essential resource will enable performers to recreate the music of the period in a historically informed manner. ... Read more

Product Description
De Organographia was first published in 1618 and has long been an essential tool for musicologists.Over the last dozen years, with the revival of interest in Renaissance and early baroque music, it has begun to enjoy wider appeal as growing numbers of instrument makers and players base their own work on the documentation in this book.This edition fulfills the need in the current early music revival for a new translation of this important work.The editor's commentaries will guide the reader through some of the more technical passages. ... Read more

Product Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Product Description
This sheet music was newly engraved from early and authoritative editions. ... Read more

Product Description
Yellow folder with 7 parts - 7 individual pieces of sheet musci ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Michael Praetorius, Mendel Hess, Karl Friedrich Heusinger, Bruno Hassenstein. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michael Praetorius (Creuzburg, probably February 15, 1571 Wolfenbüttel, February 15, 1621) was a German composer, organist, and writer about music. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns. He was born Michael Schultze, the youngest son of a Lutheran pastor, in Creuzburg, Thuringia. After attending school in Torgau and Zerbst, he studied divinity and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt (Oder). After receiving his musical education, from 1587 he served as organist at the Marienkirche in Frankfurt. From 1592/3 he served at the court in Wolfenbüttel, under the employ of Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. He served in the duke's State Orchestra Brunswick first as organist and later (from 1604) as Kapellmeister. His first compositions appeared around 1602/3. Praetorius had started writing some of them when Regensburg was the parliamentary seat of the Holy Roman Empire. Their publication primarily reflects the care for music at the court of Gröningen. The motets of this collection were the first in Germany to make use of the new Italian performance practices; as a result, they established him as a proficient composer. These "modern" pieces mark the end of his middle creative period. The nine parts of his Musae Sioniae (1605-10) as well as the 1611 published collections of liturgical music (masses, hymns, magnificats) follow the German Protestant chorale style. With these, at the behest of a circle of orthodox Lutherans, he followed around the Duchess Elizabeth, who ruled the duchy in the duke's absence. In place of...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=495224 ... Read more

Product Description
Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Michael Praetorius (Creuzburg, probably February 15, 1571 - Wolfenbüttel, February 15, 1621) was a German composer, organist, and writer about music. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns. He was born Michael Schultze, the youngest son of a Lutheran pastor, in Creuzburg, Thuringia. After attending school in Torgau and Zerbst, he studied divinity and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt (Oder). After receiving his musical education, from 1587 he served as organist at the Marienkirche in Frankfurt. From 1592/3 he served at the court in Wolfenbüttel, under the employ of Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. He served in the duke's State Orchestra Brunswick first as organist and later (from 1604) as Kapellmeister. His first compositions appeared around 1602/3. Praetorius had started writing some of them when Regensburg was the parliamentary seat of the Holy Roman Empire. Their publication primarily reflects the care for music at the court of Gröningen. The motets of this collection were the first in Germany to make use of the new Italian performance practices; as a result, they established him as a proficient composer. These "modern" pieces mark the end of his middle creative period. The nine parts of his Musae Sioniae (1605-10) as well as the 1611 published collections of liturgical music (masses, hymns, magnificats) follow the German Protestant chorale style. With these, at the behest of a circle of orthodox Lutherans, he followed around the Duchess Elizabeth, who ruled the duchy in the duke's absence. In place of popular music, one now expected religious music from Praetorius. When the duke died in 1613 and was succeeded by Frederick Ulrich, Praetorius retained his employment. From 1613 he also worked at the court of John George I, Elector of Saxony at Dresden, where he...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

Product Description
Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Gottlieb Bertrand, Michael Praetorius, Hermann Korb, Justus Georg Schottelius, Helmut Kramer, Friederike von Reden, Paul Raabe, Elisabeth Christine Ulrike von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Justus Oldekop, Curt Mast, Heinrich Wessel, Gunzelin von Wolfenbüttel, Wilhelm Blume, Herz Samson, Karl Bergwitz, Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg, Maina-Miriam Munsky, Martin Gosky, Christian Friedrich Weichmann, Ernst von Unger, Kai Nürnberger, Johannes Reiske, Urban Dietrich von Lüdecke, Karl Steinacker, Paul Zimmermann, Victor Ehrenberg, Albert Südekum, Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem, Samuel Meyer Ehrenberg, Theodor Steinweg, Otto von Heinemann, Christian Leiste, Philipp Samson, Hans Friedrich Geitel, Karl Friedrich Ernst Koldewey, Wilhelm Brandes, Kurd von Damm, Heinrich Andreas Koch, Jürgen Lossau, Andreas Weiß, Kurt Selle, Albert von Rhamm, Gerhard Kubetschek, Widekind von Wolfenbüttel, Johann Julius Walbaum, Johannes Krabbe, Ludwig August von Rochau, Jürgen Wohlers, Wilhelm Beste, August Fink, Albert Schelz, Karl Gesenius, Franz Mützeltin, Georg Scholz, Paul Francke, Theodor Engelbrecht, Rudolf August Nolte, Rainer Westermann, Georg Ludwig von Hardenberg, Wilhelm Hille, Gustav Milchsack, Ina Dietz, Günter Mast, Theodor Wilhelm Heinrich Bank, Gerhard Weigert, Anna Vorwerk, Carl Brandan Mollweide, Hans-Jörg Meyer, Normen Odenthal, Stefan Schempershauwe,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (* 22. Januar 1729 in Kamenz, Sachsen; † 15. Februar 1781 in Braunschweig) war der wichtigste deutsche Dichter der deutschen Aufklärung. Mit seinen Dramen und seinen theoretischen Schri...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=17472 ... Read more