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(Mekh’-a-el Pri-tô’-re-oos) c. 1571–1621 German composer and theorist Born into a strict Lutheran household, Praetorius became one of the greatest and most prolific early composers in the Protestant tradition. He composed over 1,000 sacred works – mostly hymns based on Lutheran chorales, but also German psalm settings and some Latin-texted works. Today, however, Praetorius is best known ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Sebastian Virdung illustrated four sizes of crumhorn, but his description mentions just three: descant; a middle size covering the alto and tenor range; and bass. A century later, Praetorius referred to five standard sizes, with the lowest instruments extended by means of sliders. Styles & Forms | Renaissance | Classical Instruments | Sackbut | Renaissance | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

a sounding box on the side against the player’s body and the player could reach the strings from both sides. There were some regional variations: in his Syntagma musicum, Praetorius contrasts what he calls a ‘simple common harp’ with an Irish harp. The former had a straighter, slimmer forepillar and a narrower soundbox (which we know from surviving instruments ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

The Renaissance recorder was played by blowing directly into a beak-shaped mouthpiece and the pitch was varied by changing the fingering on the holes – a set of seven on the front of the instrument and a single thumb-hole at the back. During this period the instrument was generally made of a single piece of wood, but today it usually ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

The basic construction of the violin, with its waisted or figure-of-eight body (with a hard-wood back, usually maple, and a softer front, usually spruce), was established early in the sixteenth century. The strings (tuned, from the top downwards, as E, A, D and G) run from a peg box, where tension can ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

long history in Western music, probably dating back to the fourteenth century, when it appears to have been a development from an earlier kindred instrument. In 1619 Michael Praetorius listed seven members of the recorder family in his Syntagmatis Musici Tomus Secundus. Its chief repertory comes from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, when it was very popular. Many ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

decidedly secular themes as those of his contemporaries. Recommended Recording: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, Pro Cantione Antiqua, (dir) Bruno Turner (Hyperion) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Michael Praetorius | Renaissance | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

such as angels playing trumpets. Gottfried Fritzsche (1578–1638), who worked as an apprentice on the organs of St Thomas’s and St Nicholas’s, Leipzig, was a friend of Michael Praetorius (c. 1571–1621), Schütz and Scheidt; and J. S. Bach obviously took a great interest in the splendid new organs being built at this time: he knew Gottfried Silbermann, and ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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