Blending the secular and sacred : instrumental textures in seventeenth-century worship

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In the seventeenth century composers employed traditionally secular instrumentations, such as that of the solo violin or ensembles of brass or string instruments, in concerted settings of liturgical texts. While settings of the mass and office are not inherently dramatic, composers used instrumental textures to create dramaturgical effects in these sacred works. As a result, these concerted settings hang in the balance between two sacred genres, the Latin sacred concerto and the oratorio. Moreover, these works demonstrate how composers in the seventeenth century experimented with the blending of genres and evaded the classifications carefully designated by theorists of the period, such as Athanasius Kircher and Michael Praetorious. -- Andreas Hofer (c.1629-1684), a composer active in Salzburg for his entire career and the majority of whose surviving works are held in manuscript at Kroměříž, provides an intriguing example of the use of instruments and genre blending in liturgical contexts in his Ver sacrum seu Flores (1677). In this printed collection of eighteen offertories for a variety of instrumental and vocal ensembles, each work is labeled for a particular feast of the church year. Furthermore, Hofer employs instrumentations functioning in a variety of musical capacities, contributing to both the affective and dramaturgical settings of specific passages of text. … celý popis

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Kimberly Beck

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Fyzický popis

11 il.

Publikováno v

Musicologica Brunensia. -- ISSN 1212-0391. -- Roč. 49, č. 2 (2014), s. [71]-84

Témata

Hofer, Andreas, > 1629-1684.

hudební skladatelé > duchovní hudba > Rakousko > 17. stol.

liturgické texty > liturgická hudba > 17. stol.

ofertoria > instrumentace a orchestrace > 17. stol.

hudební nástroje > 17. stol.

smyčcové nástroje > housle > 17. stol.

koncerty > oratoria > 17. stol.

composers > sacred music > Austria

liturgical texts > sacred vocal music

offertories (music) > instrumentation and orchestration

musical instruments

bowed stringed instruments > violin

concerts > oratorios

Salcburk (Rakousko)

Kroměříž (Česko)

Salzburg (Austria)

Kroměříž (Czechia)

duchovní skladby > sekulární instrumentace > různá instrumentace pro různé svátky > pomocné textury > dramatické efekty > expresivita > prolínání žánrů > Hoferovy rukopisy v Kroměříži

články

journal articles

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11 notových záznamů

Bibliografie

Bibliografie na s. 83-84