An Outline of The History of Western Music Grout ... - The Reel Score

) Charles II particularly liked solo singing with orchestral accompaniment and so
influenced the production of many anthems of the verse type
c) Coronation ceremonies inspired especially elaborate works - with less
pretensious occasions producing "full" or "cathedral" anthems for chorus (without
soloists)
3. Lutheran Germany
a) Lutheran music enjoyed a golden age between 1650 & 1750
b) affected by two conflicting tendencies
(1) Orthodox Party - holding to established dogma & public institutional forms of
worship favored using all available resources of choral & instrumental music
in the services
(2) Pietism - emphasized the freedom of the individual believer & distrusted
formality and high art in worship, preferring music of simpler character that
expressed feelings of devotion
c) Concerted Church Music
(1) Sacred Concerto - developed in the Orthodox centers
i) with several musical & textural components of diverse origin
a- the backbone was the concerted chorus on a biblical text (established by
Schein, Scheidt, Schütz of the early/mid 17th century)
b- of more recent vintage was the solo aria on a strophic, non-biblical text
c- the choral was the most characteristic and traditional element
ii) developed into three types of Sacred Concerto
a- arias only or arias and choruses in the concertato medium
b- chorales only in the concertato medium
c- both arias & chorales with the chorales either in simple harmonic settings
or in the concertato medium
iii) now referred to as Contatas - can properly be called Sacred Concertos as
composers of the time did
iv) toward the end of the century, a somewhat standardized pattern of
concerted church music developed - motetlike opening chorus on a bible
verse, a solo movement (or movements) either aria or arioso, and a choral
setting of a chorale verse
(2) Lutheran Church Cantata
i) in 1700 Erdmann Neumeister (1671-1756) introduced a new kind of sacred
poetry intended for musical settings which he called "cantata"
a- intended these texts to be set as ariosos or arias - the arias usually in da
capo form & often including an introductory recitative
b- texts were were set "madrigal style" - lines of unequal length with
irregularly placed rhymes
c- Neumeister & later composers often wrote texts in cylcles intended to fit
each slot in the church calendar
ii) the widespread acceptance of this new type of cantata brought together the
Orthodox & Pietistic tendencies
a- poetry blended objective & subjective, formal & emotional elements
b- musical scheme brought together all the great traditions of the past
(chorale, solo song, concertated medium