~ From the perspective of a Lutheran Baroque Composer in 1680
Dearest Friend, How curious is it, looking dimensionally, how retroactive we are as musicians. It seems as though the other forms of expression such as art, literature, philosophy, and architecture seem to predate all our efforts in the fine arts. I am thinking directly to the days of Martin Luther, that initial step into protestant reformation. Thus came from the manifested power of the Catholic Church the words of the Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences. Was this not the first act of philosophy to reconcile us with the true God-fearing self?
In comparison, the advent of Lutheran theology began to flourish out of the wounds of Catholicism. The art of the reformist …show more content…
This reactionary art is contained by those Florentines, from which came the evolution of the pastoral drama to the first operas . I am of course thinking of the drama contained in the operas created by none other than Jacopo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini, and Claudio Monteverdi with Alessandro Striggio . All of which are spoiled with the ideals of Florentine reform, like the Machiavellian machismo, which disseminates unabashed themes of nymphs, Roman and Greek tragedy, and gallantry lifestyles which demean the wholesome worship of our …show more content…
As compared to the transubstantiation of the Church, the music we are producing is easily on the verge of true devotional purpose . Of course, while this does include the plethora of work that Heinrich Schütz created, I am specifically referring to the unrivaled grandeur of Dieterich Buxtehude.
Membra Jesu Nostri, a work of eloquence and easily paralleled to the many Magnificat and Preludes for Organ which Buxtehude adapted from the work of Martin Luther, himself, was performed. From this, there are many of thoughts to be made. I do believe that this work is unreserved in the pietism that we so strongly adorn, as contrasted by the Catholic Church, which caused an unequaled travesty known as the Thirty-Years War . The edification of this work on the morality of the Lutheran observer is unquantifiable, and the quality of the work in the purely Danish-Germanic Musica Poetica is of notoriety
Dearest Friend, How curious is it, looking dimensionally, how retroactive we are as musicians. It seems as though the other forms of expression such as art, literature, philosophy, and architecture seem to predate all our efforts in the fine arts. I am thinking directly to the days of Martin Luther, that initial step into protestant reformation. Thus came from the manifested power of the Catholic Church the words of the Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences. Was this not the first act of philosophy to reconcile us with the true God-fearing self?
In comparison, the advent of Lutheran theology began to flourish out of the wounds of Catholicism. The art of the reformist …show more content…
This reactionary art is contained by those Florentines, from which came the evolution of the pastoral drama to the first operas . I am of course thinking of the drama contained in the operas created by none other than Jacopo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini, and Claudio Monteverdi with Alessandro Striggio . All of which are spoiled with the ideals of Florentine reform, like the Machiavellian machismo, which disseminates unabashed themes of nymphs, Roman and Greek tragedy, and gallantry lifestyles which demean the wholesome worship of our …show more content…
As compared to the transubstantiation of the Church, the music we are producing is easily on the verge of true devotional purpose . Of course, while this does include the plethora of work that Heinrich Schütz created, I am specifically referring to the unrivaled grandeur of Dieterich Buxtehude.
Membra Jesu Nostri, a work of eloquence and easily paralleled to the many Magnificat and Preludes for Organ which Buxtehude adapted from the work of Martin Luther, himself, was performed. From this, there are many of thoughts to be made. I do believe that this work is unreserved in the pietism that we so strongly adorn, as contrasted by the Catholic Church, which caused an unequaled travesty known as the Thirty-Years War . The edification of this work on the morality of the Lutheran observer is unquantifiable, and the quality of the work in the purely Danish-Germanic Musica Poetica is of notoriety