Dieterich Buxtehude : organist in Lübeck / Kerala J. Snyder.
| Author/creator |
Snyder, Kerala J. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1987. |
| Description | xxiii, 551 pages : illustrations, map, portrait, music, facsimiles ; 25 cm |
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| Contents | Events in the life of Dietrich Buxtehude -- Part I. Buxtehude's world. Denmark. Buxtehude's birthplace and ancestry ; Child in Helsingor ; The unknown years of apprenticeship ; Organist in Helsingborg ; Organist in Helsingor -- Lubeck: the city. Citizen of Lubeck ; Buxtehude's marriage ; Family and social life ; Musical life in Lubeck ; The Abendmusiken -- Lubeck: St. Mary's church. The church building ; Organs ; Liturgy and hymns ; Music for feast days ; Musicians ; Musical repertory ; Buxtehude's responsibilities as organist and Werkmeister ; Buxtehude's predecessor: Franz Tunder ; Buxtehude's successor ; The visit of Johann Sebastian Bach -- Beyond the walls of Lubeck. Hamburg ; Stockholm ; Colleagues in other cities ; Buxtehude's pupils ; Buxtehude the man -- Part II. Buxtehude's compositions. Vocal music. Texts ; Buxtehude and pietism ; Text, genre, and style in seventeenth-century German church music. Concerto ; Chorale ; Aria ; The meeting of concerto and aria ; Cantata -- Buxtehude's works in discrete genres. Concertos ; Ciacconas ; Arias ; Chorale settings ; Dialogues -- Buxtehude's cantatas. Concerto-aria cantatas ; Other two-part cantatas ; Mixed cantatas -- Music for connoisseurs and ordinary citizens ; Questions of authenticity -- Works of learned counterpoint. Invertible counterpoint ; Canon ; Stile antico -- Keyboard works. Canzonas ; Ostinato works ; Praeludia ; Buxtehude's praeludia as examples of the Stylus phantasticus ; Chorale settings. Chorale fantasias ; Chorale preludes ; Chorale variations -- Suites and secular variations. Suites ; Variation sets -- Sonatas. Printed sonatas ; Buxtehude's sonatas as examples of the Stylus phantasticus ; Sonatas in manuscript ; Sonatas in vocal music -- Part III. Studies pertaining to Buxtehude's music. The sources of Buxtehude's music. The dissemination of music in seventeenth-century Germany ; Buxtehude's autograph manuscripts ; The Duben collection ; The Osterreich-Bokemeyer collection ; The manuscripts of the Bach circle. Ohrdruf ; Berlin ; Grafenroda ; Apolda ; Erfurt -- The manuscripts of Johann Gottfried Walther ; Other important sources. The Lucbeck tablature A 373 ; The codex "E.B.-1688" ; The Lindemann manuscripts ; The Ryge and Ihre manuscripts -- Modern editions of Buxtehude's music -- Toward a chronology of Buxtehude's music. The vocal manuscripts and prints ; The instrumental manuscripts and prints ; Buxtehude's revisions as guides to his stylistic development ; Ostinato and fugal technique ; Harmony, tonality, and temperament ; A sketch of Buxtehude's stylistic development -- The performance of Buxtehude's music. Choir and soloists ; Solo voices ; Instruments. Strings ; Woodwinds ; Brass instruments and timpani -- Basso continuo ; Instrumental doublings ; Articulation. Legato as a special effect ; Keyboard fingering ; Organ pedaling -- Tempo and dynamics ; Organ registrations -- Appendix 1. The compositions of Dieterich Buxtehude -- Appendix 2. The writings of Dieterich Buxtehude -- Appendix 3. Principal sources of the works of Dieterich Buxtehude -- Appendix 4. Selected texts from archival documents and early printed sources -- Appendix 5. Inventories of music -- Appendix 6. Chorale melodies set by Buxtehude. |
| Abstract | This book is a new edition of the most comprehensive life-and-works study of the great Baroque-era organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude (ca. 1637-1707), released to celebrate the tercentenary of the composer's death. Originally published in 1987 and long out of print, this book is considered by most musicologists to be the definitive biography. It also includes close description of Buxtehude's compositional output, from trio sonatas to the famed Abendmusiken: Buxtehude's yearly oratorio presentations. The young J. S. Bach traveled to Lübeck on foot in 1705 to learn as much as he could from the great master of the organ and of Lutheran church music. The revised edition contains new information on the organs that Buxtehude played in Scandinavia and Lübeck, excerpts from the newly available account books from St. Mary's in Lübeck, a discussion of newly discovered sources, including one written by J. S. Bach, an evaluation of recent scholarship on Buxtehude, and an extensive bibliography. Written for both the casual reader and the serious scholar. The accompanying music CD (this material is now provided on a companion website) provides examples of all genres discussed in the book -- vocal works, a trio sonata, harpsichord music, and organ music newly recorded on the North German meantone organ in Gothenburg, Sweden, by a noted specialist in this repertoire, Hans Davidsson, who is professor of organ at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and the founder of the Göteborg Organ Art Center (GOArt). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-539) and index. |
| LCCN | 87018505 |
| ISBN | 0028730801 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.B99 S6 1987 | ✔ Available | Place Hold | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.B99 S6 1987 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |