Praetorius, Michael
(†1621)
MICHAEL PRAETORIUSPRAETORIUS, MICHAELMICHAEL PRAETORIUS [* ca. 1569-73-† 1621] The state of music in Germany soon after the turn of the seventeenth century is well documented in the mammoth yet incomplete Syntagma musicum (1614-20) of Michael Praetorius. BARYPHONUS was to have supplied material for a fourth volume on composition, but Praetorius's death intervened. What survives are three rich volumes which treat, respectively, the music of the ancients and of the church; the musical instruments…