{"title":"Michael Praetorius’s Variable Opinions on Performance","authors":"Jeffery T. Kite-Powell","doi":"10.3986/dmd15.1-2.02","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article presents Praetorius’s wide-ranging opinions on performance practice, including what distinguishes a good composition from an inferior one, how performance forces are to be selected and deployed, and which performance practices are acceptable and which are to be avoided. His stance varies from laudatory and supportive to censorious and disapproving. These and other issues are presented in both English and the original German, and offer suggestions on how to orchestrate a polychoral work today, including reference to recorded media.","PeriodicalId":38033,"journal":{"name":"De Musica Disserenda","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"De Musica Disserenda","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd15.1-2.02","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article presents Praetorius’s wide-ranging opinions on performance practice, including what distinguishes a good composition from an inferior one, how performance forces are to be selected and deployed, and which performance practices are acceptable and which are to be avoided. His stance varies from laudatory and supportive to censorious and disapproving. These and other issues are presented in both English and the original German, and offer suggestions on how to orchestrate a polychoral work today, including reference to recorded media.
期刊介绍:
De musica disserenda is an international journal of musical scholarship. It is published by the Institute of Musicology ZRC SAZU (Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) at the ZRC Publishing (Založba ZRC). The journal is publishing musicological as well as interdisciplinary articles regarding music, with a special attention given to the texts on history of music on the territory of today’s Slovenia in wider European context. Individual issues of the journal with various dissertations are published twice a year, while thematic double issues are published at the end an individual year. The articles are published in Slovenian, English, German, French or Italian languages, with keywords and abstracts in English and Slovenian. A longer summary in Slovenian or English is given at the end of each article.