Varwig places the music of Sch tz in a richly detailed seventeenth-century context, comparing this to its later nineteenth- and twentieth-century reception.
Varwig places the music of Sch tz in a richly detailed seventeenth-century context, comparing this to its later nineteenth- and twentieth-century reception.
Bettina Varwig is a music historian with wide-ranging interests in early modern European culture. She has held fellowships at Magdalen College, Oxford and the University of Cambridge, and is now a lecturer at King's College London. She has published widely on the music of Heinrich Schütz and J. S. Bach. This is her first book.
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Introduction 1. Trumpets and drums (Psalmen Davids, 1617) Paraphrase 1. Lutheran Schütz 2. Echoes, mirrors and masks (Dafne, 1627) Paraphrase 2. Operatic Schütz 3. Life, death and afterlife (Musikalische Exequien, 1636) Paraphrase 3. Monumental Schütz 4. Old and new worlds (Geistliche Chormusik, 1648) Paraphrase 4. Rhetorical Schütz Conclusion.
