SKU: GI.G-9799
Composed by Heinrich
Schutz. Edited by Alice
Parker. Sacred. 64 pages.
GIA Publications #9799.
Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-9799).
UPC: 785147979913.
English. Text Source: 32
selected Psalms, tr.
Gracia Grindal and Jean
Janzen. Text by Gracia
Grindal.
Intended
for use in churches and
classrooms, Alice Parker
has gleaned 32 of
Schütz’s psalm
settings from the
seventeenth-century
Becker Psalter. The new
texts of Gracia Grindal
are lyrical English
versions based on the
Psalms themselves, rather
than literal translations
of Becker’s German
text. The indexes and
Parker’s
commentary for each
setting make this a
useful resource for
singers, directors, and
accompanists. The
collection epitomizes
hymn singing of the
seventeenth century, just
as Bach’s chorales
would come to exemplify
the tradition 100 years
later. For today’s
audience, steeped in the
patterns of tonal music,
these pieces—with
their Renaissance
freshness of mode and
meter—come as a
welcome tonic.
Allemagne
heinrich-schutz