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Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba

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author

Schütz, Heinrich

work information

«Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält», SWV 467 for 3 choirs and basso continuo:

Coro I for soprano and lutes

Coro II for soprano and violas da gamba (viole bastarde)

Coro III for soprano and trombones

manuscript

scoring

3 voxS + 3 vg + 3 trb + bc

where

source

D-Kl 2* Ms. Mus. 49m

online copy

https://orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image/1507628636889/1/LOG_0000/

modern edition(s)

Heinrich Schütz Sämtliche Werke, vol. 13, Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel, 1892 (Spitta), IMSLP

further information

notes

The Coro II is labelled, in the 4 separate parts, once “viole di gamba”, once “viole” and twice “viole bastarde”. The parts are normally polyphonic; they clearly have nothing in common with the Italian viola bastarda technic.

There is no special part for the lutes.

bibliography

Clytus Gottwald, Die Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Gesamthochschul-Bibliothek Kassel, vol. VI, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1997, p. 86

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