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Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes SWV 386 By the time Dowland arrived in Rome, Marenzio was at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pljHSnNzygg the Polish court, where he died in 1599.
Basil Smallman, “Schütz,” Grove Master Musician Series, ed.
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Das ist je gewisslich wahr SWV 388 Stanley Sadie (London and New York: Oxford University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvpfQaDrGos Press © Basil Smallman 2000), 14. (Hereafter, Smallman).
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It was Gabrieli’s practice to require his foreign students
Symphoniae sacrae III, op. 12 to compose a book of madrigals to “graduate” from
“Gabrieli U.” The exercise was less a demonstration of
Vater unser, der du bist in Himmel fluency in Italian than their ability to compose music that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIcUmI3UdPw was in every aspect derived solely from the words—their
assonance, speech rhythm, and the opportunities the

Opus Ultimum words afforded to use pictorialism. Madrigals by three
such Gabrieli pupils—Johann Grabbe, Hans Nielsen,
Deutsches Magnifi cat, SWV 494 and Mogens Pedersøn—appear in Das Chorwerk, 35, ed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaIcbcDGUMw R. Gerber (Wolfenbüttel: Möseler Verlag).
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“Von Haus aus,” lit. “from outside the house,” i.e., a visiting
musician.
NOTES 8
Smallman, 28.
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Ibid.
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Sagittarius is the Latinized version of his German name, For an excellent recounting of this confl ict, see C. V.
Schütz, derived from the association of his name Wedgewood’s comprehensive book, The Thirty Years War
(Schütz) with the constellation of Sagittarius (in German, (London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1938; repr. Anchor Books
Schütz comes from the noun Schützer, which means 1961). (Hereafter, Wedgewood).
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one who protects; Schützer was the German name for Neue Schütz Ausgabe (hereafter NSA), vols. 23–26, ed. Wilhelm
the constellation of Sagittarius [the archer]). Similarly, Ehmann (Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag). A second critical
Michael Praetorius adopted a Latinized, humanist name, edition, the Stuttgart Schütz Edition, was taken over by Carus
Praetorius being the Latin equivalent of a town offi cial Verlag (Stuttgart) in 1992.
Schütz’s departure for Venice coincided with Elector Johann
(Schultheiss), which was Praetorius’s family name. 12
2 Georg’s decision that Saxony would no longer attempt to
Günther Grass, The Meeting at Telgte © 1979, Hermann

Luchterhand Verlag, Darmstadt; English translation remain neutral. Saxony’s entry into the conflict led to a
(Ralph Mannheim) © 1981 by Harcourt Brace severe decline in the court’s support of music.
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Jovanovich, Inc., 41. (Here, Grass projects an actual For an excellent discussion of this major event in the
meeting of German artists in 1947 [with the same composer’s life, see Mara R. Wade, “Heinrich Schütz
agenda!] three centuries back in time.) and ‘det Store Bilager’ (“The Great Wedding”) in
3 Copenhagen (1634)” in Schütz Jahrbuch 11 (1989): 32–52.
Joshua Rifkin, Eva Linfield, Derek McCulloch, and Stephen
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Baron, “Schütz, Heinrich”: “Grove Music Online 2001, May Smallman, 87.
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8, 2022. Hans Joachim Moser, Heinrich Schütz, Life and Ibid., 79. Another trip to Copenhagen took place in 1642–
Works (St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, ca. 44, which the composer referenced in his dedication of
1959); Allen B. Skei, Heinrich Schütz: A Guide to Research his Symphoniae sacrae II to the King of Denmark (1647).
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(New York: Garland Press, 1981); Gina Spagnoli, Letters In the same year, Schütz published his op. 11, Geistliche
and Documents of Heinrich Schütz, 1656–1672: An Annotated Chor-Music, dedicated to the Thomanerchor and the city of
Translation (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, ca. Leipzig.
Smallman, 142.
1990.) 17
When John Dowland visited Hesse Kassel in 1594–95, While rhetoric monody dominates, these collections include
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Moritz recommended that he study with Luca Marenzio. music for vocal ensembles (with and without obbligato

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