Geistliche Chor-Music [Paperback]

Heinrich Schutz (Author)

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Publication Date: August 4, 2005

Geistliche Chor-Music (SWV 369-397) by the great German early Baroque composer Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672) is a collection of twenty-nine motets for five (SSATB or SATTB), six (SSATTB), or seven voices and optional basso continuo. This easy-to-read, scholarly edition by Andrew Thomas Kuster results from a painstaking reexamination of the original part books, printed in 1648. This edition puts Schutz's music in modern clefs, retains the original note values, includes English translations, and has keyboard reductions to simplify rehearsal. Incipits show original part names, clefs, time signatures, and ranges. The edition contains fifty pages of critical commentary, translations of Schutz's preface, and plates to aid study. Among the gems of this collection are Selig sind die Toten, Die mit Tranen saen, So fahr ich hin, and Das ist je gewisslich wahr. 328 pages. (This work is also commonly spelled Geistliche Chormusic or Geistliche Chormusik, by Heinrich Schuetz or Heinrich Schutz, edited by Andrew Kuster.)

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"Conductors will welcome this long-awaited, excellent edition of some remarkable early Baroque masterpieces. Andrew Kuster has produced an edition notable for its beautiful clarity, its practicality for use in performance, and its carefully researched scholarship. I found myself wanting to perform each work immediately to realize the music's expressiveness and its symbolism, and to hear its beauty." -Joan Catoni Conlon

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Alphabetical List of Motets
Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt: Aria (SATTB) 78
Aria: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (SATTB) 78
Aria: Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr (SSATTB) 134
Auf dem Gebirge hat man ein Geschrei gehöret (AA & instruments) 238
Das ist je gewisslich wahr (SSATTB) 149
Das Wort ward Fleisch (SSATTB) 116
Der Engel sprach zu den Hirten (ST & instruments) 225
Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes (SSATTB) 124
Die mit Tränen säen (SSATB) 62
Du Schalcksknecht (T & instruments) 254
Ein Kind ist uns geboren (SSATTB) 108
Er wird sein Kleid in Wein waschen (Section 2 of 2, SATTB) 10
Es ist erschienen die heilsame Gnade Gottes (SSATB) 16
Es wird das Scepter von Juda (Section 1 of 2, SATTB) 3
Gib unsern Fürsten und aller Obrigkeit (Section 2 of 2, SSATB) 31
Herr, auf dich traue ich (SSATB) 55
Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr: Aria (SSATTB) 134
Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock (SSATTB) 160
Ich bin eine rufende Stimme (SSATTB) 98
Ich weiss, dass mein Erlöser lebt (SSAATBB) 191
O lieber Herre Gott, wecke uns auf (SSATTB) 81
Samlet zuvor das Unkraut und bindet es in Bündlein (SATTB) 50
Sehet an den Feigenbaum und alle Bäume (ST & instruments) 206
Selig sind die Toten (SSATTB) 176
So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ (SSATB) 71
Tröstet, tröstet mein Volk (SSATTB) 90
Unser keiner lebet ihm selber (SATTB) 36
Unser Wandel ist im Himmel (SSATTB) 168
Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich (Section 1 of 2, SSATB) 25
Viel werden kommen von Morgen und von Abend (SATTB) 44
Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit (ST & instruments) 183

Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Lulu.com; 2005-08-01 edition (August 4, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1411642430
• ISBN-13: 978-1411642430
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Geistliche Chor-Music Abstract, January 20, 2006

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Geistliche Chor-Music (SWV 369-397) by the great German early Baroque composer Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) is a collection of twenty-nine motets for five (SSATB or SATTB), six (SSATTB), or seven voices and optional basso continuo. This easy-to-read, scholarly edition by Andrew Thomas Kuster results from a painstaking reexamination of the original part books, printed in 1648. This edition puts Schütz's music in modern clefs, retains the original note values, includes English translations, and has keyboard reductions to simplify rehearsal. Incipits show original part names, clefs, time signatures, and ranges. The edition contains fifty pages of critical commentary, translations of Schütz's preface, and plates to aid study. Among the gems of this collection are Selig sind die Toten, Die mit Tränen säen, So fahr ich hin, and Das ist je gewisslich wahr. 328 pages. (This work is also commonly spelled Geistliche Chormusic or Geistliche Chormusik, by Heinrich Schuetz or Heinrich Schutz, edited by Andrew Kuster.)