University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Johann Adam Reincken's Erste Unterrichtung Zur Compesition: Translation and critical commentary

Turner, Theodore Armstrong

Content Files
Theodore Turner_thesis.pdf

Permalink

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/117511

Description

Title
Johann Adam Reincken's Erste Unterrichtung Zur Compesition: Translation and critical commentary
Author(s)
Turner, Theodore Armstrong
Issue Date
2023
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Carrillo, Carlos
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Robinson, Dana
Committee Member(s)
  • Mattax, Charlotte
  • Solya, Andrea
Department of Study
School of Music
Discipline
Music
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
A.Mus.D. (doctoral)
Keyword(s)
  • Johann Adam Reincken
  • Baroque
  • organ
  • composition
  • An Wasserflüssen Babylon
  • fugue
  • Sweelinck
Language
en
Abstract
This project aims to provide greater access to, and garner greater scholarship for, important primary sources of seventeenth-century North German organists by examining a theoretical treatise, Erste Unterrichtung zur Compesition, by esteemed Hamburg organist Johann Adam Reincken. Erste Unterrichtung zur Compesition belongs to a larger compilation of five theoretical treatises, which are themselves organized into two books commonly known as the “Sweelinck Manuscripts.” The Sweelinck Manuscripts, deemed lost during World War Two, were rediscovered and returned to Hamburg Staats -und Universitätsbibliothek almost thirty years ago, yet little scholarship has been devoted to these texts, and most of this research is written in German. This thesis seeks to create a modern, critical edition of Reincken’s Erste Unterrichtung zur Compesition, arguably the most intriguing treatise of the collection, and this scholarship aims to encourage additional translations of Reincken’s treatises and scholarship on the significance of the Sweelinck Manuscripts.
Graduation Semester
2023-05-02T14:24:29-05:00
Type of Resource
  • text
  • still image
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2023 Theodore Armstrong Turner

Owning Collections

Doctoral Project Theses [Option 2] - Music PRIMARY