(Za’-moo-el Shidt) 1587–1654 German composer Scheidt – a pupil of Sweelinck, organist, composer and himself a teacher – served as Kapellmeister to the Halle court from 1619. He published seven collections of sacred music: the earliest, Cantiones sacrae (‘Holy Songs’, 1620), contains eight-voice polychoral motets. One calls for instrumental doubling of parts; the musical style blends Italian and Netherlandish ...
(Yän Pe’-ter-sun Sva’-lingk) 1562–1621 Netherlandish composer Sweelinck was a composer, organist and teacher, numbering Scheidt among his pupils. He was enormously influential in the development of north and mid-German organ music, later prompting the most important writer on music of the German Baroque, Johann Mattheson (1681– 1764), to describe him as the ‘creator of Hamburg organists’. He worked ...
settings of Hebrew songs for synagogue use. Recommended Recording: Songs of Solomon, Pro Cantione Antiqua (dir) Sydney Fixman (Musical Concepts) Introduction | Early Baroque | Classical Personalities | Samuel Scheidt | Early Baroque | Classical ...
(Vocals, guitar, 1903–62) Francis ‘Scrapper’ Blackwell is best known as Leroy Carr’s musical partner, but he was also a gifted artist in his own right. In 1928 he recorded ‘Kokomo Blues’, which Kokomo Arnold covered as ‘Original Old Kokomo Blues’, before Robert Johnson retooled it as ‘Sweet Home Chicago’. After Carr died in 1935, Blackwell retired from ...
Frideric Handel. ‘Have faith that the modern composer builds on foundations of truth.’ Claudio Monteverdi Leading Exponents Giulio Caccini Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Claudio Monteverdi Girolamo Frescobaldi Heinrich Schütz Samuel Scheidt Giacomo Carissimi Louis Couperin Jean-Baptiste Lully Henry Purcell Early Baroque Style Baroque music is characterized by the addition of a definite bass line underlying a melodic treble line, often ...
Many of the famous German Baroque organs are what is known as Werkprinzip (‘department principle’) organs, built up of several separate ‘departments’ (i.e. a manual or pedal keyboard and its chest), all linked into the single console at which the organist plays. This method of construction means that organs can be tailored to specific requirements and added to over ...
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