Hello Thomas, Alain, Ralf and others,
it seemed at the time for me to change the subject line ;-), as I nearly had
missed this interesting theme.
Also I'm not sure if that theme shouldn't be better settled on the baroque lute
list ...
I wouldn't say that there is not much sacred music for baroque lute.
I don't think I know all of it, but the ones I know are quite a bit.
Thomas, you mentioned Falkenhagen. He had published at least one print,
possibly even 2 with sacred chants.
There are traces of the second one in some manuscripts.
In one of the two Weiss mss that are now in Paris you find sacred songs, that
most probable are completely by Falkenhagen.
Some of them are from the published print, but some aren't.
Before Falkenhagen there should be mentioned the big print of Reusner ("100
Geistliche Ges�nge").
There is one (or even two) big manuscript by Johann Michael Sciurus in Krakau
with Chorales, which I haven't seen yet.
There is a Rust ms, that in the first half was filled with chorales.
And don't forget Beyer's Oden, that also had been mainly sacred songs by
Gellert.
So there seems to have been a strong protestantic tradition of singing chorales
to the lute.
In Hungary there even were found some accompaignments for reformed psalms!
In the Gruessau mss you find many sacred and even liturgical pieces (catholic).
Also there is evidence that lute music by Pichler was used to compose a mass.
So there is quite a lot of sacred music for baroque lute also.
Best
Markus
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:42:28 +0100, Thomas Schall wrote:
TS> There is not much sacred music in those manuscripts.
TS> But there are other manuscripts and even prints (Falckenhagen!) only
TS> containing sacred music as there still was a living tradition of domestic
TS> devotion.
TS>
TS> Thomas
TS>
TS> Am Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2005 18:04 schrieb Alain Veylit:
TS> > Ralf,
TS> > This is very interesting: how many of those pieces preserved in
TS> > monasteries (roughly speaking) are sacred works, as opposed to dances or
TS> > preludes? any single volume dedicated to the liturgy?
TS> > Alain
TS> >
TS> > ralf bachmann wrote:
TS> > >>BTW, has anyone noticed that while 50% of the
TS> > >>repertoire in the 16th
TS> > >>century is religious - Ave marias, motets, psalms,
TS> > >>etc. - the later
TS> > >>repertoire is entirely profane?
TS> > >
TS> > >Yeap, that�s true ... monks seemed to like that new
TS> > >"entirely profane" music. A very substantial part of
TS> > >the 17th & 18th century lute music is (was) preserved
TS> > >in monasteries: Gr�ssau, Seitenstetten, Kremsm�nster,
TS> > >Raigern, Neuburg, etc.
TS> > >
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