Banquet Music Suite

Composer: SCHEIN, Johann Hermann
  • Schein’s Banchetto musicale is a collection of secular instrumental music which Schein published in Leipzig in 1617. This is one of twenty suites which appear in that collection. 
  • In Banchetto musicale, Schein indicates that the suites can be played “on any instruments but preferably on viols.” 
  • The suites in Banchetto musicale were probably intended as dinner music.1

Sources

  1. Kerala J. Snyder and Gregory S. Johnston, “Schein, Johann Hermann,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 22, 2020, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000024787

Cut IDs

19255