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Dietrich Buxtehude and seventeenth-century music in retrospect / Christoph Wolff -- Part one. ORgan music in seventeenth-century Germany. Organ music within the social structrue of North German cities in the seventeenth century / Arnfried Elder -- The sacred organ works of Samuel Scheidt: their function, form, and significance / Douglas E. Bush -- Praetorius, compenius, and Werckmeister: a tale of two treatises / Vincent J. Panetta, Jr. -- Towards a critical understanding of Buxtehude's expressive chorale preludes / Lawrence Archbold -- Part two. Vocal music for obsequies, opera, and Abendmusiken. Heinrich Schutz's Musikalische Exequien: reflections on its history and textual-musical composition / Werner Breig -- Hamburg opera during Buxtehude's lifetime: the works of Johann Wolfgang Franck / George J. Buelow -- Lutheran vespers as a context for music / Robin A. Leaver -- The viol consort in Buxtehude's vocal music: historical context and affective meaning / Eva Linfield -- Literary perspectives on the texts of Buxtehude's Abendmusiken / Gloria Flaherty -- Buxtehude, the Lubeck Abendmusiken, and Wacht! Euch zum Streit gefasset macht / Kerala J. Snyder -- Part three. Seventeenth-century German theory and notation. Vocal polyphony in the Luneburg tablatures: a double repertory of solo organ literature and accompanimental Absetzungen / Curtis Lasell -- A keyboard diminution manual in Bartfa manuscript 27: keyboard figuration in the time of Scheidt / Cleveland Johnson -- Tablature versus staff notation: or, why did the young J. S. Bach compose in tablature? / Robert Hill -- Modality, tonality, and theories of fugal answer in the late Renaissance and Baroque / Paul Walker. |
