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Chair: Mary E. Frandsen, University of Notre Dame (frandsen.3@nd.edu)

The American Heinrich Schütz Society is dedicated to the study and performance of the music of Schütz and his German contemporaries. For many years, the AHSS was an independent entity; however, in 1991, its members voted to expand the boundaries of its focus, and to invite other scholars of seventeenth-century music to form a Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, which held its first conference at Washington University in St. Louis in April 1993. At the point of the formation of the SSCM, the AHSS became a constituent society of the larger body, with representation on the board of directors.

 

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The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) will hold its annual meeting at Wake Forest University in North Carolina from 3-6 April 2003. On Saturday afternoon, April 5, the AHSS will sponsor a paper session entitled “Heinrich Schütz and his Circle,” featuring Prof. Dr. Wolfram Steude, Professor emeritus of the Hochschule für Musik “Carl Maria von Weber” in Dresden, as Hauptreferent. Prof. Steude will speak on the theme “Heinrich Schütz als Repräsentant der Musik in der Kunst der ‘Deutschen Renaissance’.” We are happy to have Jeffery Kite-Powell of Florida State University as session chair; the session will also include stimulating papers by Eva Linfield (Colby College) and Keith Chapin (Fordham University), who will speak on Michael Maier and Christoph Bernhard, respectively. The Schütz session will take place at the Moravian Music Center at Old Salem Village.

Following the Schütz session, the AHSS will sponsor a Vesper service as it might have been celebrated at the Dresden court during the last years of the Thirty Year’s War. The order of worship was reconstructed by Mary Frandsen from a 1646 letter of Senior Court Preacher Jacob Weller to Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony. In his letter, Weller suggested a few “improvements” to be made in the Vespers. All those in attendance will be welcome to participate; several works of Schütz will be performed, including Ps. 4 (SWV 100a) from the Becker-Psalter, and the Deutsche Magnificat (SWV 426) from the Zwölf geistlichen Gesänge of 1657. Participants should bring their own scores of the Magnificat. We are happy to have Paul Walker as our director and organist; all who would like to participate are invited to the rehearsal on Friday evening, April 4, following the performance of the Daniel Bollius oratorio..

 

 

SSCM 15th Annual Conference, University of Southern California, April 17-20, 2008

 

Heinrich-Schütz Tage in Hamburg, October 25-28, 2007 (click on “Veranstaltungen”)

Heinrich Schütz Meeting in Brandenburg an der Havel

40th International Heinrich Schütz Festival in Dresden
September 16-24, 2006

38th International Heinrich Schütz Festival, Malmö, Sweden
Thursday, 4 October to Sunday, 7 October 2001

Program

 

Gregory Barnett (University of Michigan)
"Chronicles of Musical Success and Failure in Late-Seventeenth-Century Italy"

Charles Brewer (Florida State University)
"The Case of the Fallacious Fauna: Biber, Schmelzer, and the Sonata Violino Solo Representativa"
"Venito, Ocyus Venito! The Context of the Pastorellas by Schmeltzer and Biber"

Brian Brooks (Cornell University), Lecture Recital
"Parody and Invention in the Early Seventeenth-Century German Violin Fantasia"

Maruo P. Calcagno (Yale University)
"Signifying Nothing: Debates on the Power of Voice in Seventeenth-Century Venice"

Joanna Carter (Florida State University)
"Thomas Selle as Music Tutor: A Model for Music Education at Lateinschulen in Northern Germany"

Stewart Carter (Wake Forest University)
"On Instrumentation in the Early Seventeenth Century: The Case of Christoph Straus"

Michael R. Dodds (Southern Methodist University)
"Modal Representation in Baroque Church-Tone Cycles"

Michael R. Dodds (Southern Methodist University) and John Sheridan (Eastman School of Music)
Workshop: "Alternatim Performance with Psalm Tones, Chant Antiphons, Vocal Polyphony, and Organ Versets" [no abstract]

Alexander J. Fisher (Harvard University)
"Virginalia Eucharistica: The Latin Vocal Concerto in Counter-Reformation Munich"

Claire Fontijn-Harris (Wellesley College)
"An Italian Circle in Late Seventeenth-Century Paris"

Mary E. Frandsen (University of Notre Dame)
"The 'Problem' of Sacred Music between Schütz and Bach"
"Allies in the Cause of Italian Music: Schütz, the Prince, and Musical Politics in Dresden"

Frederick K. Gable (University of California, Riverside)
"Eine so viel als die Andere: Rhythm and Tempo in 17th-Century German Chant"

Stacey Jocoy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"John Playford: Stationer, Musician, and Royalist"

Gregory S. Johnston (University of Toronto)
"The Musical Box: Coffins as Locus for Performance and Composition in Early Modern Germany"

Jeffrey Kurtzman (Washington University)
"Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 and the Development of the Italian Vesper Repertoire in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century"

Susan Lewis (Princeton University)
"The City Council as Patron and Promoter of Music in Seventeenth-Century Nuremberg"

Stephen R. Miller (University of the South)
"'Conflicting Signatures": Divergent Compositional Processes in Seventeenth-Century Imitative Textures"

Kimberlyn Montford (University of North Texas)
"Religious Reform, Legislation, and Nuns' Music in Early Modern Rome"
"Paolo Quagliati's Affetti amorosi spirituali (Rome, 1617): A Reflection of Female Spirituality"

Jessie Ann Owens (Brandeis University)
"Cleffing in English Music ca. 1575-1650"

Eleanor Selfridge-Field (Stanford University)
"The Rites of Autumn, Winter, and Spring: Decoding the Calendar of Venetian Opera"

Susan Shimp (Charlotte, North Carolina)
"Excavating Virgil in the Counter-Reformation of Rome: Domenico Mazzocchi's Aeneid Dialoghi (1638)"

Kerala Johnson Snyder (Eastman School of Music, emerita)
"Buxtehude, Schnitger, and the North German Organ: 1687-2000"

Edmond Strainchamps (State University of New York at Buffalo)
"The Sacred Music of Marco Da Gagliano"

Frederick Tarrant (Indiana Wesleyan University)
"John Blow's Organ Verse Anthems: An Evaluative Study"

Andreas Waczkat (University of Rostock)
"Two Parody Masses by Heinrich Schütz?"
"Die 'Missa ad imitationem Lobe den Herren H. Schützen' in der Danziger Handschrift Ms. 4012 und ihr Kontext" [no abstract]

Paul Walker (University of Virginia), Sally Sanford (Wellesley College), Lecture-Demonstration with Zephyrus
"Creating a Choral Sound for Music of the Prima and Seconda Prattica"

Timothy J. Watkins (Florida State University)
"Nahua Stylistic Influence on Compositions from the Oaxaca Codex"

Kathryn Welter (Wayland, Massachusetts)
"Concerted Music for Vespers in St. Sebald Church, Nuremberg: Johann Pachelbel's Vocal Legacy"
"So ist denn dies der Tag: the Erbhuldigung of Prince Elector Carl Heinrich of Mainz"

Craig J. Westendorf (Phoenix, Arizona)
"Heinrich Schütz and Theology: The Choral Music of Early Seventeenth-Century Evangelical Germany and Devotional Change"

 

Gregory Barnett
"Modal Theory, Church Keys, and the Sonata at the End of the Seventeenth Century." Journal of the American Musicological Society 51 (2000): 245-81.

Stephen Bonta
"L'impiego di strumenti nella musica sacra in Italia (1560-1700)." In: Tradizione e stile: La musica sacra in area Lombardo-Padana nella seconda meta del '600. Como, Italy: Antiquae Musicae Italicae Studiosi, 1989, 9-28 .

"The Instrumental Music of Giovanni Legrenzi: Style and Significance." In: Giovanni Legrenzi e la cappella ducale di San Marco. Firenze: Olschki, 1994, 325-49.

"The Use of Instruments in Sacred Music in Italy 1560-1700." Early Music 18 (1990): 519-535.

George Buelow, ed.
The Late Baroque Era : from the 1680s to 1740. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1993.

John Butt
Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Stewart Carter
A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music. New York: Schirmer, 1997

"The String Tremolo in the 17th Century." Early Music 19 (1991): 49-60.

"Trombone Obbligatos in Viennese Oratorios of the Baroque." Historic Brass Society Journal 2 (1990): 52-77.

Quentin Faulkner
Wiser than Despair: the Evolution of Ideas in the Relationship of Music and the Christian Church. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Claire Fontijn-Harris
"Mujeres barrocas/Baroque women: Leonora Duarte." Early Music Magazine/Revista de musica antigua 11 (May-July 2000): 96-99.

"Mujeres Barrocas/Baroque women: Antonia Bembo." Early Music Magazine/Revista de musica antigua 6 (1999): 110-113.

"Quantz's unegal: Implications for the Performance of 18th-Century Music." Early Music 23 (1995): 54-62.

Mary E. Frandsen
"Allies in the Cause of Italian Music: Schütz, Prince Johann Georg II and Musical Politics in Dresden." Journal of the Royal Musical Association 125 (2000): 1-40.

"Albrici, Peranda und die Ursprünge der Concerto-Aria-Kantate in Dresden." Schütz-Jahrbuch 8 (1996): 123-39.

Wendy Heller
"Opera as History in L'incoronazione di Poppea." Journal of the American Musicological Society 52 (1999): 39-96.

"Reforming Achilles: Gender, opera seria, and the Rhetoric of the Enlightened Hero." Early Music 26 (1998): 562-581.

"The Queen as King: Refashioning Semiramide for seicento Venice." Cambridge Opera Journal 5 (1993): 93-114.

Gregory S. Johnston
"Schwanengesang als christlicher Begriff in der deutschen protestantischen Begräbnismusik des 17. Jahrhunderts." In: Tod und Musik im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert: XXVI. Internationale Wissenschaftliche Arbeitstagung Michaelstein, 12. bis 14. Juni 1998, ed.Günter Fleischhauer et al. Michaelstein: Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein, 2001.

"Musikerberuf und das Funeralwesen im deutschen Barock." In: Professionalismus in der Musik: Arbeitstagung in Verbindung mit dem Heinrich-Schütz-Haus Bad Köstritz vom 22. bis 25. August 1996, ed. Christian Kaden and Volker Kalisch. Essen : Die Blaue Eule, 1999.

"Heinrich Schütz's Musikalische Exequien: Evidence of Influence." Canadian University Music Review/Revue de musique des universités canadiennes 13 (1993): 1-14.

"Rhetorical Personification of the Dead in 17th-century German Funeral Music: Heinrich Schütz's Musikalische Exequien (1636) and Three Works by Michael Wiedemann (1693)." The Journal of Musicology 9 (1991): 186-213.

"Textual Symmetries and the Origins of Heinrich Schütz's Musikalische Exequien." Early Music 19 (1991): 213-225.

"Musical-rhetorical prosopopoeia and the Animation of the Dead in Seventeenth-Century German Funeral Music." Canadian University Music Review/Revue de musique des universités canadiennes 10 (1990): 12-39.

Robert Kendrick
Celestial Sirens: Nuns and their Music in Early Modern Milan. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

"Schütz's Symphoniae sacrae I and its Non-Reception in Italy." In: Relazioni musicali tra Italia e Germania nell'età barocca: atti del VI Convegno internazionale sulla musica italiana nei secoli XVII-XVIII, Loveno di Menaggio (Como), 11-13 luglio 1995, ed. Alberto Colzani. Como: A.M.I.S. : Centro italo-tedesco Villa Vigoni, 1997.

"Sonet vox tua in auribus meis": Song of Songs Exegesis and the Seventeenth-Century Motet." Schütz-Jahrbuch 16 (1994): 99-118.

Jeffrey Kurtzman
The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610: Music, Context, Performance. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

"A Jungian Perspective on Monteverdi's Late Madrigals." In: Relazioni musicali tra Italia e Germania nell'età barocca: atti del VI Convegno internazionale sulla musica italiana nei secoli XVII-XVIII, Loveno di Menaggio (Como), 11-13 luglio 1995, ed. Alberto Colzani. Como: A.M.I.S. : Centro italo-tedesco Villa Vigoni, 1997.

Robin A. Leaver
"The Funeral Sermon for Heinrich Schütz." Bach: The Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute 25/2 (1994): 115-129.

"Lutheran Vespers as a Context for Music." In: Church, Stage, and Studio: Music and Its Contexts in Seventeenth-Century Germany, ed. Paul Walker, 143-61. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1990.

Eva Linfield
"Modulatory Techniques in Seventeenth-Century Music: Schütz, a Case in Point." Music Analysis 12 (1993): 197-214.

"Modal and Tonal Aspects in Two Compositions by Heinrich Schütz." Journal of the Royal Musical Association 17 (1992): 88-122.

"Formal and Tonal Organization in a 17th-Century Ritornello/Ripieno Structure." Journal of Musicology 9 (1991): 145-164.

Daniel Melamed
"Zum Text und Kontext der "Keiser"-Markuspassion" (with Reginald Sanders). Bach-Jahrbuch 85 (1999): 35-50.

"Constructing Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703)." Music & Letters 80 (1999): 345-365.

"Eine Motette Sebastian Knüpfers aus J. S. Bachs Notenbibliothek." Bach-Jahrbuch 75 (1989): 191-196.

Kimberlyn Montford
"L'Anno santo and Female Monastic Churches: The Politics, Business and Music of the Holy Year in Rome (1675)." Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 6/1 (2000).
http://rism.harvard.edu/sscm/jscm/v6/no1/Montford.html

Massimo Ossi
"A Sample Problem of Seventeenth-Century Imitatio: Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Turini, and Battista Guarini's Mentre vaga Angioletta." In: Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts: Studies in Honor of Lewis Lockwood. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 1997, 253-269.

"L'armonia raddoppiata: On Claudio Monteverdi's Zefiro torna, Heinrich Schütz's Es steh Gott auf, and Other Early Seventeenth-Century Ciaccone." Studi musicali 42 (1988): 225-54.

Jessie Ann Owens
Composers at Work: the Craft of Musical Composition 1450-1600. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Jessie Ann Owens, ed. (with Anthony M. Cummings)
Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts: Studies in Honor of Lewis Lockwood. Warren, Mich : Harmonie Park Press, 1997

Susan Parisi
"New Documents Concerning Monteverdi's Relations with the Gonzagas" In: Claudio Monteverdi: Studie e prospettive Firenze: Olschki, 1998, pp. 477-511

"The Jewish Community and Carnival Entertainment at the Mantuan Court in the Early Baroque." In: Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts: Studies in honor of Lewis Lockwood. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 1997, pp. 293-305

"Bologna Q 27 IV/V: A New Manuscript Source of Italian Monody and Canzonette." Studi musicali 26 (1997.): 73-104

"Musicians at the Court of Mantua during Monteverdi's Time: Evidence from the Payrolls." In: Musicologia humana: Studies in Honor of Warren and Ursula Kirkendale Firenze. Olschki, 1994, pp. 183-208.

Colleen Reardon.
Agostino Agazzari and Music at Siena Cathedral, 1597-1641. Oxford: Clarendon Press New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Musica franca: Essays in Honor of Frank A. D'Accone, ed. Irene Alm, Alyson McLamore, and Colleen Reardon. Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, c1996.

Joshua Rifkin
"Zelenkas Chor: Der Blick von 1725." In: Provokation und Tradition: Erfahrungen mit der alten Musik, ed. Hans-Martin Linde and Regula Rapp. (Festschrift Klaus L. Neumann) Stuttgart : Metzler, 2000.

"Page Turns, Players and Ripieno Parts: More Questions of Scoring in Bach's Vocal Music." Early Music 25 (1997): 728-734.

"Schütz--Weckmann--Kopenhagen: Zur Frage der zweiten Dänemarkreise." In: Von Isaac bis Bach--Studien zur alteren deutschen Musikgeschichte: Festschrift Martin Just zum 60. Geburtstag. Kassel: Barenreiter, 1991, 180-188.

Steven Saunders
Cross, Sword, and Lyre: Sacred Music at the Imperial Court of Ferdinand II of Habsburg (1619-1637). New York: Oxford University Press,1995.

"The Antecedents of the Viennese Sepolcro." Relazioni musicali tra Italia e Germania nell'età barocca: atti del VI Convegno internazionale sulla musica italiana nei secoli XVII-XVIII, Loveno di Menaggio (Como), 11-13 luglio 1995, ed. Alberto Colzani. Como, Italy: Antiquae Musicae Italicae Studiosi, 1997, 61-84.

"The Emperor as Artist: Ferdinand III's Musical Compositions." Studien zur Musikwissenschaft: Beihefte der Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Osterreich 45 (1996): 7-31.

"Giovanni Priuli's Missa sine nomine and the Legacy of Giovanni Gabrieli." The Journal of Musicological Research 14 (1995): 169-191.

"The Hapsburg Court of Ferdinand II and the Messa, Magnificat et Iubilate Deo a sette chori concertati con le trombe (1621) of Giovanni Valentini." Journal of the American Musicological Society 44 (1991): 359-403.

Alexander Silbiger
"Passacaglia and Ciaccona: Genre Pairing and Ambiguity from Frescobaldi to Couperin." Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 2/1 (1996).
http://www.sscm.harvard.edu/jscm/v2/no1/Silbiger.html

"Monteverdi, Schütz and Weckmann: The weight of Tradition." In: Proceedings of the Weckmann Symposium Göteborg 1991. Göteborg: Göteborg University, 1993, 123-139.

"The Autographs of Matthias Weckmann: A Reevaluation." In: Heinrich Schütz und die Musik in Dänemark zur Zeit Christians IV, ed.Anne Orbaek Jensen and Ole Kongsted. Copenhagen: Engstrom & Sodring, 1989, 117-144.

Kerala Johnson Snyder
"Life in Venice : Johann Rosenmüller's Vesper Psalms." Relazioni musicali tra Italia e Germania nell'età barocca: atti del VI Convegno internazionale sulla musica italiana nei secoli XVII-XVIII, Loveno di Menaggio (Como), 11-13 luglio 1995, ed. Alberto Colzani. Como: A.M.I.S. : Centro italo-tedesco Villa Vigoni, 1997.

"Bach, Buxtehude, and the Old Choir Library of St.Mary's in Lübeck." In: Das Frühwerk Johann Sebastian Bach: Kolloquium veranstaltet vom Institut für Musikwissenschaft der Universitat Rostock 11.-13. September 1990. Cologne: Studio, 1995. p. 33-47.

"Buxtehude, the Lübeck Abendmusiken, and Wacht! Euch zum Streit gefasset macht." In: Church, Stage, and Studio: Music and Its Contexts in Seventeenth-Century Germany, ed. Paul Walker. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1990, 205-228.

"Soloists and Capella in the Vocal Music of Buxtehude."
"Buxtehude in Lübeck: The Social and Historical Context of his Music." Both in: Dietrich Buxtehude and Samuel Scheidt: An Anniversary Tribute. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada: U. of Saskatchewan, 1988, 1-8, 195-199.

Dieterich Buxtehude, Organist in Lübeck. New York: Schirmer, 1987

Gina Spagnoli
"Dresden at the Time of Heinrich Schütz." In: The Early Baroque Era: From the Late 16th Century to the 1660s. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1994, 164-184.

Letters and Documents of Heinrich Schütz, 1656-1672: An Annotated Translation. 2nd ed. Rochester: U. of Rochester, 1992.

Edmond Strainchamps
"Marco da Gagliano in 1608: Choices, Decisions, and Consequences." Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 6/1 (2000).
http://rism.harvard.edu/sscm/jscm/v6/no1/Strainchamps.html

Paul Walker
Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2000.

"Fugue in the Music -- Rhetorical Analogy and Rhetoric in the Development of Fugue." Bach Perspectives 4 (1999): 159-179.

Paul Walker, ed.
Church, Stage, and Studio: Music and Its Contexts in Seventeenth-Century Germany. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1990.

Diane Parr Walker and Paul Walker
German Sacred Polyphonic Vocal Music between Schütz and Bach: Sources and Critical Editions. Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography 67. Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1992.

OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Basil Smallman
Schütz. The Master Musicians series. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Klaus Bussmann and Heinz Schilling, eds.
1648: War and Peace in Europe. Münster: s.n., 1999
Vol. 2, "Art and Culture," includes a number of articles on music.

 

Bonta, Stephen
Giovanni Legrenzi, La cetra: sonate a due, tre e quattro stromenti, libro quattro, opus 10, 1673.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992

Stewart Carter
Isabella Leonarda, Selected compositions.
Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque era, vol. 59.
Madison: A-R Editions, 1988.

Frederick Gable
Jacob Praetorius, The Motets of Jacob Praetorius II.
Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, vol. 73.
Madison: A-R Editions, 1994.

Dedication Service for St. Gertrude's Chapel, Hamburg, 1607.
Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, vol. 91.
Madison: A-R Editions, 1998.

Robert Kendrick
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Motets.
Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 87.
Madison: A-R Editions, 1998.

Jeffery Kite-Powell
The Visby (Petri) Organ Tablature. Investigation and Critical Edition.
Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte, vol. 14.
Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1978.

Jeffrey Kurtzman
Claudio Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine.
Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999

Vesper and Compline Music For [One to Eight] Principal Voices
(continuation of title varies).
Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music, vols. 11-17
New York: Garland, 1995-2001.

Jessie Ann Owens
The Sixteenth-Century Madrigal (series), vols. 5-6, 12, 15-16, 18-19, 22, 28-30.
New York: Garland, 1987-1996.
Includes volumes of madrigals by Phillippe Verdelot, Claudio Merulo, Marc Antonio Ingegneri, Francesco Orso, Alfonso Dalla Viola, and Giulio Fiesco.

Alexander Silbiger
Matthias Weckmann, Four sacred concertos.
Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, v. 46
Madison: A-R Editions, 1984.

Paul Walker
Samuel Capricornus, Geistliche Harmonien III
Collegium Musicum: Yale University, 2nd series, vol. 13
Madison : A-R Editions, 1997.