Andreas Werckmeister (1645 - 1706), a late seventeenth-century
German Lutheran organist, composer, and music theorist, is the last
great advocate and defender of the Great Tradition in music, with
its assumptions that music is a divine gift to humanity,
spiritually charged yet rationally accessible, the key being a
complex of mathematical proportions which govern and are at the
root of the entire universe and all which that embraces. Thus
understood, music is the audible manifestation of the order of the
universe, allowing glimpses, sound-bites of the very Creator of a
well-tempered universe, and of our relationship to each other, our
environment, and the divine powers which placed us here. This is
the subject matter of the conversation which Werckmeister wishes to
have with us, his readers, particularly in his last treatise, the
Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse. But he does not make it easy for
today's readers. He assumes certain proficiencies from his readers,
including detailed biblical knowledge, a fluency in Latin, and a
familiarity with treatises and publications concerning music,
theology, and a number of related disciplines. He writes in a
rather archaic German, riddled with obscure references which
require a thorough explanation. With its extensive commentary and
translation of the treatise, this book seeks to bridge
Werckmeister's world with that of the twenty-first century.
Werckmeister wrote for novice and professional musicians alike, an
author who wanted to consider with his readers the basic and
existential questions and issues regarding the wondrous art of
music, questions as relevant then as they are now.
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