Article: German Sacred Polyphonic Vocal Music Between Schutz and Bach: Sources and Critical Editions.

German Sacred Polyphonic Vocal Music will be of use to scholars as well as to performers, for it brings together a substantial repertory of music from the second half of the seventeenth century. In order to contain the unwieldiness of their project, with close to 6,000 entries, the authors decided to limit themselves to compositions with three or more voices in a cappella as well as concerted settings. Their catalogue excludes three prolific composers: Heinrich Schutz, Johann Kuhnau, and Johann Joseph Fux. Schutz's major compositional output, they justifiably argue, dates from before 1648, the end of the Thirty Years War (although some of his important collections were ...

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