Tag: countrpoint

• Variations on Choral Music

  Long has it been the tradition of Baroque composers to write variations or partitas over hymn melodies. I think (correct me if I’m wrong) that the idea was only large in Germany during the era, but I do not know why. Composers such as Buxtehude, Krebs, Böhm, Sweelinck(?) and others all experimented with the idea […]

  mitchbouchercomposer

  23rd Nov 2021

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  baroque music, composer, countrpoint, music, pipe organ, variations