The great tradition of Bach and Handel scholarship has tended to overshadow the importance of the earlier musical tradition of seventeenth-century Germany. Yet a proper evaluation of these later masters is impossible without a detailed understanding of the accomplishments of such predecessors as Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) and Dietrich Buxtehude (c.1637-1707), and of the richly complex musical world in which they lived. Church, Stage and Studiois ananthology of the latest ideas and research in this expanding field.
The essays, contributed by leading German and American specialists - Christopher Wolff, George J. Beulow, Kerala J. Snyder, Werner Breig and many others -are not restricted to any genre or composer, but particularly address the liturgical, theological and historical contexts in which the music must be understood. Fresh and interdisciplinary, Church, Stage and Studiorepresents the best of current scholarship in seventeenth-century German music.
- ISBN10 0835719383
- ISBN13 9780835719384
- Publish Date 1 January 2100
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 28 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Imprint University of Rochester Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 408
- Language English