Christoph Bernhard

A German composer, singer, theoretician and instructor who kept positions in Dresden and Hamburg. Bernhard’s styles of composition consist of many sacred functions, people, motets, and concertos. A assortment of his concertos was “Geistliche Harmoniem,” mainly biblical texts created in German for you to four vocal parts with two violins and a continuing accompanying line. It really is interesting that lots of of his functions were gathered throughout Germany. Like a theorist his discourse “Tractatus compositionis augmentatus” categorizes music into three designs: based on the interrelatedness of text message and notation; the location of overall performance; and, the harmonic assonances or dissonances (the later on being more particular). His main distinctive emphasis considered the thought bass. The “stylus gravis” was used in cathedral music, “stylus luxurians communis” handled text message and music and put on many different forms, and “stylus luxurians theatralis” was utilized primarily for theater music. His various other treatises were therefore influential on various other theoreticians that they proceeded to go as far as to plagiarise Bernhard. The foundation of several of his tips originated from the Italian design.