Musica Poetica

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The term musica poetica was used to describe the composition in music theory of the 16th and 17th centuries .

Based on Aristotle, a distinction was made between Musica theoretica , Musica practica and Musica poetica . The word poetica did not mean the art of poetry , but poiesis , the production. The term first appears in the Rudimenta Musicae Planae ( Wittenberg , 1533) by Nikolaus Listenius , then as a work title in Heinrich Faber (1548), Joachim Burmeister (1606), Johann Andreas Herbst (1643) and others. a.

The Musica Poetica is in turn divided into Sortisatio and Compositio . While there are various examples of sortisatio (Villanellen, Cantica Rustica, Bawrenlieder), Compositio is only listed as a counterpoint .

literature

  • Heinz von Loesch : The concept of work in Protestant music theory of the 16th and 17th centuries. A disproportion . Olms, Hildesheim 2001, ISBN 3-487-11446-1 .
  • Markus Bandur : Musica poetica [2000, 12 pages], in: Concise dictionary of musical terminology , ed. by HH Eggebrecht [loose-leaf edition], Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden, later Stuttgart, 1971–2006; CD-ROM, Stuttgart 2012
  • Heinrich Faber: Musica Poetica , Hof 1548.
  • Ludger Stühlmeyer : The new conception of Protestant church music. Henricus Faber: Musica Practica and Musica Poetica . In: Curia sonans. The music history of the city of Hof. Phil.Diss., Bayerische Verlagsanstalt Bamberg 2010. ISBN 978-3-89889-155-4 .
  • Some important figures are: suspirato sigh; second fall

Individual evidence

  1. Cf. Eggebrecht: Terminology of musical composition. P. 26.