Histories of Heinrich Schütz / Bettina Varwig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varwig, Bettina, 1978- author.

Series:

Musical performance and reception.

Musical performance and reception

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schütz, Heinrich, 1585-1672--Criticism and interpretation.

Schütz, Heinrich.

Performance practice (Music)--History--17th century.

Performance practice (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bettina Varwig places the music of the celebrated Dresden composer Heinrich Schütz in a richly detailed tapestry of cultural, political, religious and intellectual contexts. Four key events in Schütz's career - the 1617 Reformation centenary, the performance of his Dafne in 1627, the 1636 funeral composition Musikalische Exequien and the publication of his motet collection Geistliche Chormusik (1648) - are used to explore his music's resonances with broader historical themes, including the effects of the Thirty Years' War, contemporary meanings of classical mythology, Lutheran attitudes to death and the afterlife as well as shifting conceptions of time and history in light of early modern scientific advances. These original seventeenth-century circumstances are treated in counterpoint with Schütz's fascinating later reinvention in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German musical culture, providing a new kind of musicological writing that interweaves layers of historical inquiry from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Contents:

Trumpets and drums (Psalmen Davids, 1617)

Lutheran Schütz

Echoes, mirrors and masks (Dafne, 1627)

Operatic Schütz

Life, death and afterlife (Musicalische Exequien, 1636)

Monumental Schütz

Old and new worlds (Geistlichechor-music, 1648)

Rhetorical Schütz.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22362-8

1-139-15274-2

1-283-34233-2

9786613342331

1-139-16024-9

1-139-16124-5

1-139-15567-9

1-139-15742-6

1-139-15919-4

1-139-02700-X

OCLC:

763159155