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- Title
LETTER CODES RELATING TO PITCH AND KEY FOR CHORALE MELODIES AND BACH'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SCHEMELLI GESANGBUCH.
- Authors
Leaver, Robin A.
- Abstract
The article examines some of the ways in which musical matters are addressed in text-only German hymnals and phenomenon of indicating pitch and key by letter codes. It mentions that the Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer and musician of the Baroque period, knowledge and use of such coding in the Schemelli Gesangbuch. It also mentions that use of hymnals by other churches and towns and melody was often known by many different names.
- Subjects
HYMNALS; BACH, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750; SCHEMELLIS Gesangbuch (Music); CHURCHES of Christ; MELODIES (Songs)
- Publication
Bach: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, 2014, Vol 45, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
0005-3600
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/bach.2014.a808494