Item Description: | Cantatas (dialogues); for 5-7 voices, with continuo (unrealized) and instruments; capella parts added by Michael Büttner and his copyists. Words also printed as texts with English translations on p. xxviii-xxx. Edited from partbooks published: Musicalische Gespräche über die Evangelia (Dresden : C. Bergen, 1655) (1st-6th works); Ander Theil geistlicher Gespräche über die Evangelia (Dresden : C. Bergen, 1656) (7th-8th works); in Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek--Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Musikabteilung (Mus Gri 39, 1-2; RISM H 1948-1949). The capella parts edited from the Bohn Collection, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Ms. mus. 150). Includes introd. and critical report. |