Musical Authorship from Schütz to Bach

What did the term 'author' denote for Lutheran musicians in the generations between Heinrich Sch tz and Johann Sebastian Bach? As part of the Musical Performance and Reception series, this book examines attitudes to authorship as revealed in the production, performance and reception of music in seventeenth-century German lands. Analysing a wide array of archival, musical, philosophical and theological texts, this study illuminates notions of creativity in the period and the ways in which individuality was projected and detected in printed and manuscript music. Its investigation of musical ownership and regulation shows how composers appealed to princely authority to protect their publications, and how town councils sought to control the compositional efforts of their church musicians. Interpreting authorship as a dialogue between authority and individuality, this book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore changing attitudes to the self in the era between Sch tz and Bach.

Author: Stephen Rose
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/30/2019
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781108421072

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2020

About the Author
Rose, Stephen: - Stephen Rose is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of The Musician in Literature in the Age of Bach (Cambridge, 2011) and editor of Leipzig Church Music from the Sherard Collection (2014), he is also the co-editor of the journal Early Music.