Music studies

overview of the articles on this website

• Buxtehude: membra Iesu nostri (Latijn-Nederlands) — music studies (Dick Wursten)
  Alles omtrent ontstaan, bestemming en uitvoering van de cantatecyclus Membra Iesu nostri is in nevelen gehuld. Enkel het titelblad licht een…
• Buxtehude: membra Iesu nostri (Latin-English) — music studies (Dick Wursten)
  Everything about the genesis, destination and performance of the cantata cycle Membra Iesu nostri is shrouded in mists. Only the title page …
• Der tag vertreibt die finster Nacht (Praetorius – Musae sioniae VIII, nr. 254-255) — music studies (Dick Wursten)
  In Musae Sioniae , Books VI, VII and VIII, Michael Praetorius offers SATB settings of all the hymns sung in schools and churches of his day …
• Dies Irae: the original (12th Century) — music studies (Dick Wursten)
  The discovery of a manuscript version of the Dies Irae —dating to the late 12th century (mss. VII D 36, f. 16r, National Library of Naples, …
• Easter-Oratory and the shepherds’ cantata — music studies (Dick Wursten)
  Bach did not actually write this Easter cantata (‘oratorio’ is too big a word) as such. I.e.: he wrote the music to a text other than this o…
• Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen (english) — music studies (Dick Wursten)
  Background to Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen , the first chorale you hear when listening to the St Matthew Passion; two other sta…
• Hymns – early ear-eye witnesses — music studies (Dick Wursten)
  Evidence of singing of protestant spiritual songs (hymns) in the early 16th century
• Lambert de Sayve: Sacrae Symphoniae (1612) (Latijn–Nederlands) — music studies (Dick Wursten)
  In zijn motettenboek uit 1612 staat een prachtig portret van Lambert de Sayve (1548/9-1614), kapelmeester aan het Habsburgse hof te Oostenri…
• Lambert de Sayve: Sacrae Symphoniae (1612) (Latin–English) — music studies (Dick Wursten)
  The 1612 book of motets features a beautiful portrait of Lambert de Sayve (1548/9-1614), chapel master at the Habsburg court in Austria. At …
• Obrecht: “kyrie” from missa salve diva parens — music studies (Dick Wursten)
  The kyrie from Jacob Obrecht’s mass ‘salve diva parens’, performed by four singers of ‘The sound and the Fury’ The beautiful manuscript vers…
• Praetorius’ Valete (Das ist mir lieb…) — music studies (Dick Wursten)
  MICHAEL PRÆTORIUS Das ist mir lieb Der 116. Psalm aus Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen veröffentlicht von Friedrich Großman 1623
• Quid commisisti (Schütz)- Herzliebster Jesu (English) — music studies (Dick Wursten)
  The text set to music by Heinrich Schütz in his Cantiones sacrae (SWV 56-60, 1625), nr. IV, is borrowed from a pious collection of prayers/m…
• Theodore de Beze about the first time he hears a psalm sung (Dick Wursten)
  Agitur annus tricesimus primus ex quo per Dei gratiam ultro patriam meaque omnia reliqui ut Christe libere servirem. Accidit autem mihi tunc…