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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Complete Keyboard Works, Volume 4:
Variations on Songs and Dances

Sweelinck Clavierwerke IV

edited by Pieter Dirksen

Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 2004

102 pages


This is one of the two volumes of a new Sweelinck edition (the other being Volume I – Toccatas, ed. Harald Vogel) which Harald Vogel and I have been working on for quite some time. We follow the sources as closely as possible, making a clear editorial differentiation between works preserved principally in staff notation (which was Sweelinck’s notation) and those preserved solely in tablature notation (which was the principal notation of his German pupils). Thus vital information for the player such as brevis bars, irregular beaming and hand division (Lynar A1!) is made accessible for the first time. As a rule, only one primary source is used for each piece, the text of which is amended as little as possible. An extensive preface provides a short biography of Sweelinck, an introduction to his keyboard music, a discussion of the source situation, matters notation and editioral principles, an overview of the publication history, as well as, for each volume seperately, an introduction to the music contained in that particular volume.


Inhalt / Contents

Einleitung (Zur Biographie Sweelincks – Zur Claviermusik – Qellenlage und Notation – Editionsprinzipien – Die weltliche Variationswerke)
Introduction (Sweelinck – The Keyboard Music – Source Situation and Notation – Editioral Principles – The Secular Variations)
Facsimile [from Lynar A1]

1. In Liniennotation überlieferte Werke / Works preserved in staff notation
1. Esce mars
2. Ich fuhr mich uber Rheine [Ick voer al over Rhijn]
3. Mein junges Leben hat ein Endt
4. Pavan Philippi
5. Puer nobis nascitur
6. Soll es sein [Poolse almande]
7. Unter der linden grune [Onder een linde groen]
anonym überliefert / anonymously preserved:
8. Allemand [Gratie]
9. Die Flichtige Nimphae [Vluchtige nimph]

2. (Ausschließlich) in Tabulatur überlieferte Werke / Works preserved (solely) in tablature notation
10. Pavana Hispanica
11. Paduana Lachrymae
12. Von der Fortuna werde ich getrieben [Engelse Fortuijn]

3. Zweifelhafte Werke / Doubtful works
13. Alemande de chapelle
14. Balleth del granduca
15. Malle Sijmen
16. Passomeza

Kritische Bemerkungen / Critical Notes


From the Reviews:

"Alles in allem scheint hier eine Edition zu entstehen, die in Bezug auf Sweelincks Werken füber Tasteninstrumente wohl so etwas wie das letzte Wort sprechen wird."
(Gregor Willmes in Fono Forum)

" ... engrossing preface ... impressive knowledge of source material is at once evident here ... the edition ... throughout reflects impressive resources of scholarship, practical knowledge, and experience."
(Gerald Gifford in The Consort)

" ... ganz hervorragende Edition. ... Pieter Dirksen hat berzeugende Arbeit geleistet, das Notenbild ist erfreulich bersichtlich und so düberfte dieses Ausgabe bis auf Weiteres zum Mass aller Dinge in Sachen Sweelinck werden. Sehr empfehlenswert!"
("FS" in Musica Sacra)

The edition, and indeed each page layout, is the product of great care. ... The editing is very reliable ... the new edition deserves a prominent place amongst the more valuable products of our period.
(Peter Williams in The Organ Yearbook)

Order at: Breitkopf & Härtel (€ 51,12)