See also:

• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL (1596-1645)
• MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

MICHAEL See also:

• MICHAEL PRAETORIUS (1571_1621)

PRAETORIUS (1571_1621)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German musical historian, theorist and composer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Kreuzberg, in Thuringia, on the 15th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1571 . His See also:

• FATHER

father's name was See also:

• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL (1596-1645)
• MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

Michael Schultheis.' While he was still quite See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young he visited the university of See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort on the See also:

• ODER (Lat. Viadua; Slavonic, Vjodr)

Oder for three years . Here he studied See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, and on the See also:

• DEATH

death of his See also:

• BROTHER

brother, on whose support he relied, he was given a See also:

• POST

post as organist in the See also:

• TOWN

town . He acted as kapellmeister at See also:

• LUNEBURG

Luneburg See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early in See also:

• LIFE

life, was engaged first as organist and later as kapellmeister and secretary to the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• BRUNSWICK
• BRUNSWICK (Ger. Braunschweig)
• BRUNSWICK, KARL WILHELM FERDINAND, DUKE OF (1735-18o6)

Brunswick-See also:

• WOLFENBUTTEL

Wolfenbuttel, and was eventually rewarded for his See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long services with the priory of Ringelheim, near See also:

• GOSLAR

Goslar . He died at Wolfenbuttel on the 15th of February 1621 . Of his very numerous compositions copies are now very scarce . The most important are : Polyhymnia (15 vols.), Musae Sioniae (16 vols.), and Musa See also:

• AONIA

Aonia (9 vols.), all written partly to Latin and partly to German words . But more See also:

• PRECIOUS (O. Fr. precios, mod. precieux, Lat. pretiosus, of high value or price, pretium)

precious than all these is the Syntagma musicum (3 vols. and a cahier of plates, 4to, See also:

• WITTENBERG

Wittenberg and Wolfenbuttel, 1615-162o) . In the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• PROSPECTUS (Lat. for view, look-out, prospect, from prospicere, to look forward)

prospectus of the See also:

• WORK

work four volumes were promised, but it is certain that no more than three were ever published . The See also:

• FOURTH

fourth See also:

• VOLUME

volume mentioned in See also:

• FORKEL, JOHANN NIKOLAUS (1749-1818)

Forkel's See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue is clearly nothing but the cahier of plates attached to vol. ii . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief value of this very remarkable work lies in the See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information it gives concerning the See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of instrumental See also:

• MUSIC

music in the early years of the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The plates include excellent representations of all the musical See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments in use at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time they were published, together with many forms even then treated only as See also:

• ANTIQUE (Lat. antiquus, old)

antique curiosities .

The work thus throws a See also:

• LIGHT

light upon the earlier forms of instrumental music which to the historian is invaluable . In fact, without the information bequeathed to us by See also:

• PRAETORIUS, MICHAEL (1571_1621)

Praetorius it would be impossible to reconstruct in theory the See also:

• ORCHESTRA (Fr. Orchestre; Ger. Kapelle, Orchester; Ital. Orchestra)

orchestra of the earlier See also:

• HALF

half of the 17th century, during which the See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera and the See also:

• ORATORIO

oratorio both sprang into existence, or even to understand the descriptions See also:

• LEFT

left us by other less careful writers .