Praetorius
Americannoun
noun
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That Praetorius brought his own take to the technique was amply demonstrated with a performance of four fleet dances for instruments from his collection “Terpsichore,” his only surviving secular music.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2021
But in 1609, Praetorius wrote a tender, four-part setting that plumbed the melody for all its harmonic possibilities, and became the equivalent in its day of a hit tune.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2021
In truth, the upstage pit offers just a brief detour from the dancing, which unspools in fluid phrases and witty, freewheeling duets between Alex Kramer and Corey Landolt, and Maki Onuki and Tobias Praetorius.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2019
The early-music company presents "Bach — Angels and Shepherds: Cantatas for the Holiday Season," that also features carols arranged by Michael Praetorius and works by Johann Kuhnau and Philip Friedrich Boddeckers.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2012
Music, dancing, play-acting, suppers of the gods, "not done till four in the morning sometimes," these are the accounts Praetorius hears at Berlin.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
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