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Johann Hermann Schein

Johann Hermann Schein

Johann Schein
Johann Schein

Schein was one of the first to absorb the innovations of the Italian Baroque—monody, the concertato style figured bass and use them effectively in a German Lutheran context.  While his friend  Heinrich Schütz made more than one trip to Italy, Schein appears to have spent his entire life in Germany, making his grasp of the Italianate style all the more remarkable.  His early concertato music seems to have been modeled on Lodovico Grossi da Viadana’s Cento concerti ecclesiastici.

Possibly his most famous collection was his only collection of instrumental music, the Banchetto musicale (Musical banquet) (1617) which contains twenty separate variation suites; they are among the earliest, and most perfect, representatives of the form. Most likely they were composed as dinner music for the courts of Weissenfels and Weimar, and were intended to be performed on viols. They consist of dances: a pavan-galliard (a normal early Baroque pair), a courante, and then an allemande-tripla. Each suite in the Banchetto is unified by mode as well as by theme.

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Johann Schein
Johann Schein

Schein was one of the first to absorb the innovations of the Italian Baroque—monody, the concertato style figured bass and use them effectively in a German Lutheran context.  While his friend  Heinrich Schütz made more than one trip to Italy, Schein appears to have spent his entire life in Germany, making his grasp of the Italianate style all the more remarkable.  His early concertato music seems to have been modeled on Lodovico Grossi da Viadana’s Cento concerti ecclesiastici.

Possibly his most famous collection was his only collection of instrumental music, the Banchetto musicale (Musical banquet) (1617) which contains twenty separate variation suites; they are among the earliest, and most perfect, representatives of the form. Most likely they were composed as dinner music for the courts of Weissenfels and Weimar, and were intended to be performed on viols. They consist of dances: a pavan-galliard (a normal early Baroque pair), a courante, and then an allemande-tripla. Each suite in the Banchetto is unified by mode as well as by theme.

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  • Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (4 settings à5) £2.25 – £4.50Price range: £2.25 through £4.50

    Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (4 settings à5)

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  • Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (4 settings à5) £2.25 – £4.50Price range: £2.25 through £4.50

    Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (4 settings à5) (viols)

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  • Banchetto Musicale (complete set of parts): Johann Hermann Schein £12.00 – £24.00Price range: £12.00 through £24.00

    Schein: Banchetto Musicale (1617) (complete set of parts)

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  • Banchetto Musicale (set of recorder parts): Johann Hermann Schein £10.00 – £20.00Price range: £10.00 through £20.00

    Schein: Banchetto Musicale (1617) (set of recorder parts)

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  • Banchetto Musicale (set of string parts): Johann Hermann Schein £10.00 – £20.00Price range: £10.00 through £20.00

    Schein: Banchetto Musicale (1617) (set of string parts)

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  • Banchetto Musicale (score): Johann Hermann Schein £9.50 – £19.00Price range: £9.50 through £19.00

    Schein: Banchetto Musicale (score)

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  • Johann Hermann Schein - Canzon à5 £3.00 – £6.00Price range: £3.00 through £6.00

    Schein: Canzon à5

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  • Johann Hermann Schein - Canzon à6 £3.00 – £6.00Price range: £3.00 through £6.00

    Schein: Canzon à6

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  • Johann Hermann Schein - Intradas & Lieder (1609) £3.50 – £7.00Price range: £3.50 through £7.00

    Schein: Intradas & Lieder (1609)

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  • O Amarilli zart : Johann Hermann Schein £2.50 – £5.00Price range: £2.50 through £5.00

    Schein: O Amarilli zart

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  • Suite 15 : Johann Hermann Schein £2.00 – £4.00Price range: £2.00 through £4.00

    Schein: Suite 15

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  • Suite 15 (viols) : Johann Hermann Schein £2.00 – £4.00Price range: £2.00 through £4.00

    Schein: Suite 15 (viols)

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  • Johann Hermann Schein - Suites 9 and 12 £3.50 – £7.00Price range: £3.50 through £7.00

    Schein: Suites 9 and 12

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