"By the 1780's the Bethlehem
Collegium musicum was playing the music of the best composers of the day--Bach's sons, Hasse, Stamitz, Haydn, and many others, now lesser known.
The singers and instrumentalists were members of the Michigan Bach Collegium and the Western Michigan
Collegium Musicum, with which Audrey, and sometimes the Society for Old Music, had collaborated in her final years of teaching.
Thomas Church in Leipzig and director of the
collegium musicum. He then reserves half of the volume for an examination of Bach's music by genre, analyzing individual pieces and groups of vocal and instrumental works, and ends with brief discussions of specific topics such as Bach as a Christian, rhetoric and symbolism, proportion and numerical relations in his music, and theological research.
The recital was simply one of a half-dozen or so sponsored by the University's
Collegium Musicum. And I recall that my date for that afternoon was a young woman named McCollough whom I had dated because we shared a passion for classical music.
He turned his attention to the local
Collegium Musicum (roughly equivalent to a music club for university students), which met and performed weekly.
Like choir II, choir III usually sang with organ accompaniment, being accompanied on feast days by the
Collegium Musicum, a separate orchestra that did not include Bach's Stadtpfeifer and Kunstgeiger.
A
Collegium Musicum for the performance of the chamber music and symphonies of Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Johann Stamitz, and other European composers was established at Bethlehem, Pa., by the Moravians, the most musical of the dissenting religious sects in America.
Leafblad); "The
Collegium Musicum as a Viable Performing Group on the Technological Campus" (J.
By 1738, after repeated attempts to improve conditions for the church music, Bach essentially gave up composing cantatas (although he continued to direct the performance of earlier compositions) and turned to other musical outlets, such as the university students '
Collegium Musicum, for which he composed some of his best - known secular cantatas (e.g., the Coffee Cantata ).
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Collegium Musicum Yale University, second series, volume 20.) Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2014.
