The Music of Johann Rudolph Ahle

Jacob Gramit

Name: Jacob Gramit Main Subject: Early Music Singing Research Supervisor: Kathryn Cok Title of Research: The Music of Johann Rudolph Ahle: Editorial and Performance Issues Surrounding the 1658 Neu-Gepflanzter Thüringischer Lustgarten Research Question: How can creating a critical-performance edition of the music of Johann Rudolph Ahle impact my performance of his music? Summary of Results: Having always been drawn to German Music of the seventeenth century, I found a collection of music from Johann Rudolph Ahle (1623-1673) that was largely unknown and unperformed. This enabled me to start from nothing when creating an edition and researching Ahle's life and music; meaning I could see what effect the process would have on my performance. By doing detailed research into a specific collection, looking at both his compositional style and his use of pre-existing texts and music, I discovered Ahle's seeming fascination with personal spirituality, leading to new ideas for the performance of his music. Biography: Originally from Edmonton Canada, Jacob Gramit is currently living in the Netherlands, pursuing a Master’s Degree in The Hague, studying with Pascal Bertin, Peter Kooij, Dorothee Mields, Robin Blaze, and Lenie van den Heuvel. Recently, he both prepared the edition and performed in Michael Chance’s production of Cavalli’s Giasone, and upcoming projects include Handel’s Dixit Dominus with Holland Baroque and Cappella Amsterdam. Before moving abroad, Jacob lived in Vancouver, where he still performs - most recently he performed in the 2017 Vancouver Bach Festival, and coordinated the Summer Festival of Sacred Music at Christ Church Cathedral, which he will return to run in 2018. He attended the University of British Columbia (BMus, 2012), and sang for three seasons with musica intima, a professional and self-directed vocal ensemble.

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Music:

Fisher, Alexander J., ed. Rudolph di Lasso: Virginalia Eucharistica (1615). Middleton: A-R Editions, Inc., 2002.

Garri, Alejandro, ed. Ahle: Ich will singen von der Gnade des Herrn. Frankfurt: Garri Editions, 2006.

-. Ahle: Jesu dulcis memoria. Frankfurt: Garri Editions, 2005.

-. Ahle: Misericordias Domini. Frankfurt: Garri Editions, 2006.

Grüss, Hans, ed. Samuel Scheidts Werke. Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1971-1976.

Johnston, Gregory S., ed. “Wolfgang Briegel: Zwölff Madrigalische Trost=Gesänge” in Web Library of Seventeenth Century Music (Society for Seventeenth Century Music, March 2016). Accessed October 28, 2016, http://www.sscm-wlscm.org/main-catalogue/browse-by-composer/363-zwoelff-madrigalische-trost-gesaenge.

Kalisch, Volker, ed. Ahle: Fürchtet Euch Nicht. Neuhausen: Carus-Verlag Stuttgart, 1981.

Krämer, Martin, ed. Ahle: Ich hab’s gewagt. Leipzig: Musikverlag Martin Krämer, 1995.

Leonard, Carlotte A., ed. Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Church Music with Trombones. Middleton: A-R Editions, Inc., 2003.

Ruhland, Konrad, ed. Ahle: Tröstet, tröstet mein Volk. Niederaltaich: Edition Walhall, 2004.

Stolze, Wolfgang, ed. Ahle: Zwingt die Seiten in Cithara. Hamburg: GK-Edition, 1997.

-. Ahle: Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein. Hamburg: GK-Edition, 1997.

-. Ahle: Meister, wir haben die ganze Nacht. Hamburg: GK-Edition, 2000.

-. Ahle: Tröstet, tröstet mein Volk. Hamburg: GK-Edition, 2000.

-. Ahle: Ich will den Herren loben. Hamburg: GK-Edition, 2000.

-. Ahle: Unser Herr Jesus Christus. Hamburg: GK-Edition, 2000.

Weiner, Howard, ed. Herr, nun läßt Du Deinen Diener. Gorxheim: Parow’sche Musikalien, 1992.

On Editing:

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Charles, Sydney Robinson, et al. "Editions, historical." in Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, accessed November 2017,

http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/subscriber/article/grove/music/08552.

Dumitrescu, Theodor, et al., ed. Early Music Editing: Principles, Historiography, Future Directions. Turnhout: Brepols publishers, 2013.

Grier, James. The Critical Editing of Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Rosand, Ellen, ed. Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage. Burlington: Ashgate, 2013.

Urchueguía, Cristina. "Editing Cristóbal de Morales's Masses Today," in Cristóbal de Morales: Sources, Influences Reception, ed. Owen Rees et al. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2007: 235 - 260.

Musical Scholarship:

Blackburn, Bonnie. "For Whom Do the Singers Sing," in Early Music Volume 25, No. 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997: 593-609.

Blume, Friedrich, et al., Protestant Church Music: A History. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1975.

Buelow, George J. "Ahle: (1) Johann Rudolf," in Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, accessed October 2017, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/subscriber/article/grove/music/00331.

Butt, John. Music education and the art of performance in the German Baroque. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Frandsen, Mary E. Crossing Confessional Boundaries: The Patronage of Italian Sacred Music in Seventeenth Century Dresden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Guion, David M. Trombone, Its History and Music, 1697-1811. New York: Gordon & Breach, 1988.

Haar, James, ed. European Music 1520 – 1640. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006.

Leaver, Robin A. “Lutheran Vespers as a Context for Music,” in Church, Stage, and Studio: Music and Its Contexts in Seventeenth-Century German, ed. Paul Walker. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1990: 143-161.

Leonard, Charlotte A. "The role of the trombone and its Affekt in the Lutheran church music of seventeenth-century Saxony and Thuringia: The mid- and late seventeenth century," in Historic Brass Society Journal 12. New York: Historic Brass Society, 2000: 161-209.

-. “The Role of the Trombone and Its Affekt in the Lutheran Church Music of the Seventeenth-century Saxony and Thuringia.” Dissertation, Duke University, 1997.

Leupold, Ulrich, ed. Luther's Works, 53: Liturgy and Hymns. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.

Rathey, Markus. Johann Rudolph Ahle, 1625-1673, Lebensweg und Schaffen. Eisenach: Verlag der Musikalienhandlung Karl Dieter Wagner, 1999.

Rose, Stephen. “The Mechanisms of the Music Trade in Central Germany, 1600-40,” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 130, no. 1. Taylor & Francis, 2005: 1-37.

-. “Music, Print and Presentation in Saxony During the Seventeenth Century,” Germany History 23, no. 1. Oxford, 2005: 1-19.

-. “The Composer as Self-Publisher in Seventeenth-Century Germany,” in Varia Musicologica: Dissemination of Music in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Celebrating the Düben Collection. Berne, Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2011: 239-260.

-. “Publication and the Anxiety of Judgement in German Musical Life of the Seventeenth Century,” in Music & Letters 85, No. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004: 22-40.

Snyder, Kerala J. "Text and Tone in Hassler's German Songs and Their Sacred Parodies" in Musical Humanism and its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Claude V. Palisca, ed. Nancy Baker and Barbara Hanning. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1992: 253-278.

Spitta, Philip. Johann Sebastian Bach: his work and influence on the music of Germany, 1685-1750. London: Novello, 1992.

van Elferen, Isabella. Mystical Love in the German Baroque. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Winterfeld, Carl v. Der evangelische Kirchengesang und sein Verhältnis zur Kunst des Tonsatzes, Zweiter Theil. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1845.

Wolf, Johannes, ed. Johann Rudolph Ahles ausgewählte gesangswerke mit und ohne begleitung von instrumenten. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1901.

Zahn, Johannes. Die Melodien der deutschen evangelischen Kirchenlieder. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann. 1889-1893.

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