Heinrich Scheidemann's keyboard music : transmission, style and chronology / Pieter Dirksen.
| Author/creator |
Dirksen, Pieter |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashcroft, ©2007. |
| Description | xxiii, 254 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | Part 1: the sources. Early sources [i]: the Wolfenbüttel autographs -- Early sources [ii]: the 'Sweelinck' sources -- Middle-period sources [i]: the Zellerfeld tablatures -- Middle-period sources [ii] -- Late sources: Lüneburg, Pelplin and the 'Clavier' anthologies -- The dates found in the sources -- Part 2: chronology. Toccatas and 'free' imitative pieces -- Harpsichord variations and dances -- Praeambula and praeludia -- Chorale cycles -- Chorale fantasies and magnificat cycles -- Intabulations -- Scheidemann's development as a keyboard composer -- Part 3: special studies. More on the Düben tablature and its background -- Scheidemann's 'Kunstreiche Manuduction auf dem Clavier': fingering in the Scheidemann sources -- Ulf Grapenthin: the Catharinen organ during Scheidemann's tenure -- Scheidemann in Otterndorf: registration practice. |
| Abstract | One of the leading scholars on early German keyboard music shows how Heinrich Scheidemann was a central personality in the rich musical life of Hamburg and stood on friendly terms with colleagues such as Jacob and Johannes Praetorius, Ulrich Cernitz, Thomas Selle, Johann Schop and Johann Rist. The sources for Scheidemann are for the most part contemporary and stem from all periods of his career, and beyond that until one or two decades after his death. His keyboard music was never published in his lifetime but circulated widely within professional circles. The author considers the transmission of Scheidemann's music as a whole in Part One, where each source is analyzed individually, and the repertoire itself is examined in Part Two. A number of specialized studies, including a detailed investigation into the background of one of the sources as well as addressing questions of organology (an account of the famous Catharinen organ as it was during Scheidemann's era) and performance practice (a study of the fingering indications and observations on registration practice) from Part Three. A wealth of appendices also detail a relative chronology of the music; a geographic overview of the transmission and two hitherto unpublished, fragmentarily transmitted Scheidemann pieces. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2006002147 |
| ISBN | 0754654419 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780754654414 (alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.S239 D57 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |