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ANTHONY J. HARPER: German Secular Song-Books of the Mid-Seventeenth Century: An Examination of the Texts in Collections of Songs Published in the German-Language Area between 1624 and 1660. Aldershot: Ashgate 2003. 345 pp. "Die Lyrica oder getichte die man zur Music sonderlich gebrauchen kan/ erfodern zueföderst ein freyes lustiges gemüte" so begins the genre definition for secular vernacular lyrics offered by Martin Opitz in his Buch von der Deutschen Poeterey. These worldly "song" texts and their publication in more-or-less structured collections ("Song-Books") in the middle of the seventeenth century in German-speaking areas are the focus of Harper's very welcome study. What makes this book particularly valuable is its attention to the published collections as a sort of genre in their own right. Literary and musicological scholars who seek treatments of German secular song of the seventeenth century have for many decades had to rely on the detailed study of 1911 by Hermann Kretzschmar (the continued high estimation of which emerges from its republication in 1966)1 and the elegantly written English-language study of 1963 by musicologist R. Hinton Thomas.2 Each of these studies deserves enormous respect, but each has flaws and lacunae, and neither can, of course, have benefited
Daphnis – Brill
Published: May 1, 2004
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