Varwig places the music of Sch tz in a richly detailed seventeenth-century context, comparing this to its later nineteenth- and twentieth-century reception.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. Trumpets and drums (Psalmen Davids, 1617); Paraphrase 1. Lutheran Schütz; 2. Echoes, mirrors and masks (Dafne, 1627); Paraphrase 2. Operatic Schütz; 3. Life, death and afterlife (Musikalische Exequien, 1636); Paraphrase 3. Monumental Schütz; 4. Old and new worlds (Geistliche Chormusik, 1648); Paraphrase 4. Rhetorical Schütz; Conclusion.