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PRAXIS PIETATIS MELICA

Volume I/1 marks the beginning of a hymnological edition and research project entitled »Johann Crüger: PRAXIS PIETATIS MELICA. Edition and Documentation of the History of the Work.« It offers a critically edited text of the last edition of the work compiled by Johann Crüger (1598–1662) himself, the »EDITIO X.« from 1661, which, with its 550 song texts, including 90 by Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676) as

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PRAXIS PIETATIS MELICA

In the accompanying apparatus (Volume I/2), distribution and variant lists for the individual songs provide information about their occurrence in previous editions of PRAXIS PIETATIS MELICA; where necessary and possible, other accompanying publications from Johann Crüger's circle are also listed. It also offers supplementary bibliographical information, source references, descriptions of the

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Gebätbüchlein (Berlin 1661)

The famous prayer book by Johann Habermann (1516–1590), first printed in 1567 and republished and revised many times since then, appears here as an appendix to Johann Crüger's PRAXIS PIETATIS MELICA as its last »EDITIO X.« published during Crüger's lifetime in 1661. The text is thus part of the edition project and contributes to the understanding of the influential hymnbook. Following an edition

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PRAXIS PIETATIS MELICA

Volume II/1.1 offers a bibliography of PRAXIS PIETATIS MELICA, expanded to include numerous image and text documents (e.g. illustrations, prefaces). The bibliography catalogues this song collection, considered one of the most successful works in the history of hymnals, for the first time in the multitude and diversity of its editions published in four series (Berlin, Frankfurt/Main, Stettin,

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PRAXIS PIETATIS MELICA

Volume II/2, presented in tabular form, contains evidence of the occurrence of more than 3,100 hymns in German and Latin in 56 editions of PRAXIS PIETATIS MELICA from 1640 to around 1737 and in its two accompanying publications from 1649 and 1670. It thus provides, for the first time in this form, the opportunity to trace the use or non-use of these hymns in one of the most important hymnals of

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PRAXIS PIETATIS MELICA. EDITIO XXIV. Berlin 1690

Almost three decades after Johann Crüger's (1598–1662) death, the »EDITIO XXIV.« of 1690 appeared, the only four-part edition of the many PRAXIS PIETATIS MELICA editions, edited by the Berlin city musician Jacob Hintze (1622–1702). The majority of the compositions are arrangements of older Crüger movements from other hymnbook prints, as undertaken by Hintze; and he apparently also had access to

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