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This edition (based on the famous "PARTITUR Buch", a collection of chamber music compiled by Jakob Ludwig, presented to his employer the Duke August of Brunswick and Lüneburg in 1662) was commissioned by Philip Thorby. It is written in the "patchwork" style in which the various sections contrast meter and character.

Edited by Brian Clark.
8pp, printed on quality paper and finished by DU Print.
Scoring: 2 violins, 3 violas (soprano, alto, tenor – all printed in viola clef!), violone & continuo.

Click HERE to see the first page of the score.

Copied in the early 18th century, this setting of the Kyrie and Gloria movements of the mass was originally conceived for 2 tenors, 2 violins and continuo. The copyist added an optional bass (essentially a texted version of the continuo line) and then a third violin part that can substitute for the upper tenor voice and octave higher.

Edited by Brian Clark.
20pp.
Scoring: 2 tenors and optional bass, 2 violins, continuo.

This is volume 15 of the series, The German Mass.

Click here to see the first two pages of the score.