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Symphoniae Sacrae I
(literally: Sacred Symphonies, Book One) is a collection of different pieces of vocal sacred music on Latin texts, composed by Heinrich Schütz, published in 1629. He set mostly psalms and excerpts from the Song of Solomon for one to three voices, with various instruments and continuo. Its twenty pieces were assigned 257 to 276 in the ' (SWV), the catalogue of his works. Two later volumes came, but with German texts: Symphoniae sacrae II in 1647 and Symphoniae sacrae III in 1650. History Schütz composed the first collection during his second study trip to Venice. During his first visit he studied the Venetian polychoral style with Giovanni Gabrieli. Returning in 1628 after Gabrieli's death, he studied with his successor at St Mark's Basilica, Claudio Monteverdi. Schütz was in the service of the Protestant Elector of Saxony Johann Georg I, and dedicated the collection to the Elector's son, crown prince Johann Georg II, then 16 years old. The texts are mostly taken fr ...
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Religious Music
Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for Religion, religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap with ritual music, which is music, sacred or not, performed or composed for or as a ritual. Religious songs have been described as a source of strength, as well as a means of easing pain, improving one's mood, and assisting in the discovery of meaning in one's suffering. While style and genre vary broadly across traditions, religious groups still share a variety of musical practices and techniques. Religious music takes on many forms and varies throughout cultures. Religions such as Islam, Judaism, and Korean shamanism, Sinism demonstrate this, splitting off into different forms and styles of music that depend on varying religious practices. Sometimes, religious music uses similar Musical instrument, instruments across cultures. The use of drums (and drumming), for example, is seen commonly in numerous religions such as Ras ...
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Cantiones Sacrae (Schütz)
Cantiones sacrae or Sacrae cantiones (Latin for "Sacred songs") may refer to: *''Sacrae cantiones for four, five, six or more voices'', 1573 works by Alexander Utendal *'' Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur'', a 1575 collection by William Byrd and Thomas Tallis *''Cantiones sacrae'', 1589 and 1591 works by William Byrd *''Sacrae cantiones liber primus'', 1592 works by Tiburtio Massaino Tiburzio Massaino (also Massaini and Tiburtio) (Cremona, before 1550 – Piacenza or Lodi, after 1608) was an Italian composer. Life He was an Augustinian friar in Piacenza. He became ''maestro di cappella'' at S Maria del Popolo in Rome in ... * ''Cantiones sacrae'' (Gesualdo), two collections of motets of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa published in 1603 *''Sacrae cantiones'', 1614 works by Vincenzo Ugolini * ''Cantiones sacrae'' (Schütz), a 1625 collection of forty different pieces of vocal sacred music by Heinrich Schütz * '' Sacred Songs'', a 1980 album by Daryl Hall {{disambig ...
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Hochschule Für Musik Dresden
' (, plural: ') is the generic term in German for institutions of higher education, corresponding to ''universities'' and ''colleges'' in English. The term ''Universität'' (plural: ''Universitäten'') is reserved for institutions with the right to confer doctorates. In contrast, ''Hochschule'' encompasses ''Universitäten'' as well as institutions that are not authorized to confer doctorates. Roughly equivalent terms to ''Hochschule'' are used in some other European countries, such as ''högskola'' in Sweden and ' Finland (see ''ammattikorkeakoulu''), ''hogeschool'' in the Netherlands and Flanders, and ' (literally "main school") in Hungary, as well as in post-Soviet countries (deriving from высшее учебное заведение) in Central Europe, in Bulgaria ( висше училище) and Romania. Generic term The German education system knows two different types of universities, which do not have the same legal status. The term ''Hochschule'' can be used to refer ...
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Carus-Verlag
Carus-Verlag is a German music publisher founded in 1972 and based in Stuttgart. Carus was founded by choral conductor Günter Graulich and his wife Waltraud with an emphasis on choral repertoire. the catalogue includes more than 26,000 works. The company produces the standard editions of the complete works of Josef Rheinberger and Max Reger.''Harald Wanger, Rheinberger-Archivar, Organist, Pädagoge'' Harald Wanger, Franz-Georg Rössler, Robert Allgäuer - 2003 p. 48 Carus-Verlag, Musikalische Schätze abseits bekannter Pfade - Harald Wanger und der Carus-Verlag "Für den Carus-Verlag ist die Verbindung zu Harald Wanger und dem Josef Rheinberger-Archiv ein Glücksfall." Record label The company also produces CDs to accompany some of its printed editions. Currently the publishers are working on recordings accompanying the complete editions of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Opera rarities include Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Aust ...
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Bärenreiter
Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it also has offices in Basel, London, New York and Prague. The company is currently managed by , and . Since 1951, Bärenreiter has expanded its production through acquisitions and the creation of subsidiaries. From this time, the company's focus has been on the New Complete Editions series for various composers. These are urtext editions, and cover the entire work of the selected composer. Series include: J. S. Bach (the '' Neue Bach-Ausgabe'', a joint project with the Deutscher Verlag für Musik), Berlioz, Fauré, Gluck, Handel, Janáček, Mozart ('' Neue Mozart-Ausgabe''), Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Schubert ( New Schubert Edition), Telemann and others. Amateur theater For decades, Bärenreiter published hundreds of titles for ...
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Heinrich Spitta
Heinrich Arnold Theodor Spitta (19 March 1902 – 23 June 1972) was a German music educator, composer and musicologist. Life Born in Strasbourg, Spitta came from a family of musicians and theologians. His father was the theologian Friedrich Spitta and his uncle the musicologist and Bach biographer Philipp Spitta. Spitta studied with Arnold Mendelssohn and Hermann Grabner and was awarded a doctorate in 1927 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen with a dissertation about Heinrich Schütz. In 1933, Spitta taught as a teacher at the Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin and was at the same time appointed to the cultural office of the Reichsjugendführer. He mainly composed choral works which were used in the celebrations of the Hitler Youth (e.g. ''Heilig Vaterland,'' 1934; ''Jahr überm Pflug,'' 1936). Due to this activity, he was partly included in the and Gottbegnadeten list during the war. From 1950 Spitta taught at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, fro ...
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Arnold Schering
Arnold Schering (2 April 1877 in Breslau, German Empire – 7 March 1941 in Berlin) was a German musicologist. He grew up in Dresden as the son of an art publisher. He learned violin at the from which he graduated in 1896. Thereafter he studied violin at the Berlin School of Music under Joseph Joachim. From 1898 until 1902 he studied music in Berlin and Leipzig and wrote his dissertation on the instrumental concertos of Antonio Vivaldi (in German, ''Geschichte des Instrumentalkonzertes bei Antonio Vivaldi'') and this work was influential in resurrecting the music of this composer. Fred K. Prieberg: ''Handbuch Deutsche Musiker 1933–1945'', CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pages 6.084–6.086. In 1907 he made his habilitation and was made a professor of music in 1915. In 1920 Schering gathered evidence that composer Johann Sebastian Bach usually used 12 singers in his cantatas and other vocal works. This insight eventually became influential in the early music movement. From 1928 onwar ...
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Philipp Spitta
Julius August Philipp Spitta (27 December 1841 – 13 April 1894) was a German music historian and musicologist best known for his 1873 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach. Life He was born in , near Hoya, and his father, also called Philipp Spitta, was a theologian and wrote the Protestant collection of hymns entitled ''Psalter und Harfe''. As a child, the younger Spitta learnt the piano, pipe organ, and musical composition. He studied theology and classical philology at the University of Göttingen from 1860, graduating in 1864 with a Ph.D. for a dissertation on Tacitus (''Der Satzbau bei Tacitus'', 1866). While at university, he composed, wrote a biography of Robert Schumann, and became friends with Johannes Brahms. He became a teacher of Ancient Greek and Latin language in, successively, Reval, Sondershausen, and Leipzig, while pursuing his interest in and lecturing on music history in general and Johann Sebastian Bach in particular. His Bach study began to be publ ...
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Breitkopf & Härtel
Breitkopf & Härtel () is a German Music publisher, music publishing house. Founded in 1719 in Leipzig by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, it is the world's oldest music publisher. Overview The catalogue contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works and 15,000 music editions or books on music. The name "Härtel" was added when Gottfried Christoph Härtel took over the company in 1795. In 1807, Härtel began to manufacture pianos, an endeavour which lasted until 1870. Breitkopf pianos were highly esteemed in the 19th century by such pianists as Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann. In the 19th century the company was for many years the publisher of the ''Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung'', an influential music journal. The company has consistently supported composers and had close editorial collaboration with Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, Chopin, Franz Liszt, Liszt, Richard Wagner, Wagner a ...
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Seconda Pratica
, Italian for "second practice", is the counterpart to (or ) and is sometimes referred to as . The term first appeared in 1603 in Giovanni Artusi's book (''The Second Part of The Artusi, or, Imperfections of Modern Music''), where it is attributed to a certain L'Ottuso Accademico. In the first part of ''The Artusi'' (1600), Artusi had severely criticized several unpublished madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi. In the second part of this work, L'Ottuso Accademico, whose identity is unknown, defends Monteverdi and others "who have embraced this new second practice". Monteverdi adopted the term to distance some of his music from that of e.g. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Gioseffo Zarlino and to describe early music of the Baroque period which encouraged more freedom from the rigorous limitations of dissonances and counterpoint characteristic of the . was coined as an expression by Giulio Caccini in his 1602 work which contained numerous monodies. New for Caccini's songs w ...
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Absalom
Absalom ( , ), according to the Hebrew Bible, was an Israelite prince. Born to David and Maacah, who was from Geshur, he was the only full sibling of Tamar. He is described in the Hebrew Bible as being exceptionally beautiful, as is his sister. In the narrative of 2 Samuel 13, his sister Tamar takes refuge at his house after she is raped by their paternal half-brother Amnon (born to David and Ahinoam, who was from Jezreel); David is angered by the incident, but does nothing, as Amnon is his heir apparent. Infuriated by the rape and David's inaction, Absalom assassinates Amnon and subsequently flees to Geshur, which is ruled by his and Tamar's maternal grandfather Talmai. Following three years in exile, he returns to Israel and rallies popular support against the House of David. A war ensues when Absalom's rebels mobilize at Hebron and begin fighting David's army in an attempt to overthrow him, but their revolt ends in failure when Absalom is killed by David's nephew and a ...
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Neue Schütz-Ausgabe
''Neue Schütz-Ausgabe'' (new Schütz edition) is a new critical edition of the complete works by composer Heinrich Schütz (full title in German: ''Heinrich Schütz: Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke''). It is published by Bärenreiter-Verlag on a commission by the international Heinrich-Schütz-Gesellschaft. Content When completed, the edition will comprise the following volumes: * ''Historien und Passionen'' (3 vol) * ''Musikalische Exequien'' * '' Geistliche Chormusik'' (2 vol) * ''Becker Psalter'' (2 vol) * ''Zwölf Geistliche Gesänge'' 1657 * Cantiones sacrae (2 vol) * ''Kleine geistliche Konzerte'' (3 vol) * Symphoniae sacrae I–III (9 vol) * ''Italienische Madrigale'' * ''Psalmen Davids'' (4 vol) * Single psalms (2 vol) * ''Hochzeitskonzerte'', dialogues, funeral music (3 vol) * ''Choralkonzerte und Choralsätze'' * Single works * ''Größere Kirchenkonzerte'' (2 vol) * Secular songs and madrigals (2 vol) * ''Schwanengesang'' * ''Supplement'' (5 vol) External l ...
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