Thomas, Thanks for the info. I was unaware that Falckenhagen had published sacred music. Also, obviously, the practice of continuo blurs the situation, particularly with simple tunes used for psalms. Alain
Thomas Schall wrote: >There is not much sacred music in those manuscripts. >But there are other manuscripts and even prints (Falckenhagen!) only >containing sacred music as there still was a living tradition of domestic >devotion. > >Thomas > >Am Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2005 18:04 schrieb Alain Veylit: > > >>Ralf, >>This is very interesting: how many of those pieces preserved in >>monasteries (roughly speaking) are sacred works, as opposed to dances or >>preludes? any single volume dedicated to the liturgy? >>Alain >> >>ralf bachmann wrote: >> >> >>>>BTW, has anyone noticed that while 50% of the >>>>repertoire in the 16th >>>>century is religious - Ave marias, motets, psalms, >>>>etc. - the later >>>>repertoire is entirely profane? >>>> >>>> >>>Yeap, that´s true ... monks seemed to like that new >>>"entirely profane" music. A very substantial part of >>>the 17th & 18th century lute music is (was) preserved >>>in monasteries: Grüssau, Seitenstetten, Kremsmünster, >>>Raigern, Neuburg, etc. >>> >>>__________________________________________________ >>>Do You Yahoo!? >>>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >>>http://mail.yahoo.com >>> >>> >>> >>>To get on or off this list see list information at >>>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >>> > > >
