Schütz Geistliche Chor-music, Ps 116, Quid commisisti

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NEWLY PUBLISHED

Works by Heinrich Schütz (also spelled Heinrich Schuetz or Heinrich Schutz):

Geistliche Chor-Music
Der 116. Psalm
Quid commisisti

Geistliche Chor-Music (SWV 369-397) by the great German early Baroque composer Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) is a collection of twenty-nine motets for five (SSATB or SATTB), six (SSATTB), or seven voices and optional basso continuo. This easy-to-read, scholarly edition by Andrew Thomas Kuster results from a painstaking reexamination of the original part books, printed in 1648. This edition puts Schütz's music in modern clefs, retains the original note values, includes English translations, and has keyboard reductions to simplify rehearsal. Incipits show original part names, clefs, time signatures, and ranges. The edition contains fifty pages of critical commentary, translations of Schütz's preface, and plates to aid study. Among the gems of this collection are Selig sind die Toten, Die mit Tränen säen, So fahr ich hin, and Das ist je gewisslich wahr. 328 pages. $29.95. ISBN 1-4116-4243-0

Der 116. Psalm "Das ist mir lieb" (SWV 51) by Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) is a setting of Psalm 116 in six sections for five voices (SSATB). This easy-to-read, scholarly edition by Andrew Thomas Kuster puts Schütz's music in modern clefs, retains the original note values, includes English translations, and has keyboard reductions to simplify rehearsal. Incipits show original part names, clefs, time signatures, and ranges. The six sections of Schütz's Psalm setting are: Das ist mir lieb, Stricke des Todes, Der Herr ist gnädig, Sei nun wieder zufrieden, Ich will den heilsamen Kelch nehmen, and In den Höfen. 40 pages. $14.95. ISBN 1-4116-4946-X

Quid commisisti (SWV 56-60) from Cantiones sacrae by Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) is a collection of five motets for four voices (SATB) and optional basso continuo. This easy-to-read, scholarly edition by Andrew Thomas Kuster results from a painstaking reexamination of the original part books, printed in 1625. This edition puts Schütz's music in modern clefs, retains the original note values, includes English translations, and has keyboard reductions to simplify rehearsal. Incipits show original part names, clefs, time signatures, and ranges. The titles of the five motets in this collection are Quid commisisti (SWV 56), Ego sum tui plaga doloris (SWV 57), Ego enim inique egi (SWV 58), Quo nate Dei (SWV 59), and Calicem salutaris accipiam (SWV 59). This work is also commonly called Five Passion Motets or Fünf lateinische Passionsmotetten. 36 pages. $12.95. ISBN 1-4116-4945-1

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