Christmas 2021
Michael Praetorius on his 450th birthday
Many people know Michael Praetorius (1571-1621), especially "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen" ("It is a rose sprung up"), his most popular Christmas carol. He composed and edited entire chorale books and thus had a decisive influence on congregational singing in the Reformation era. He was extremely pragmatic and realized many songs in several variants and degrees of difficulty also picking up regional peculiarities. Examples of this work can be found here: "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" ("Savior of the nations, come") and "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" ("How lovely shines the morning star").
In addition, he also composed for professional bands and ensembles of his time and artistically set Latin texts to music. For example, the angel's proclamation to Maria "Ingressus Angelus" (part of the Ave Maria), which he wrote entirely in the style of vocal polyphony.
Harmonization style "Michael Praetorius"
Have you not found what you are looking for yet? Then let tonica fugata compose for you in the style of Michael Praetorius! Based on more than 30 Praetorius chorales, tonica fugata has learned to transfer his harmonization style to new melodies. You can download the completed composition style here and import it into tonica fugata. A quick guide shows how to do it. With just a few clicks of the mouse, you can make "Every year again" and "Silent Night" sound as if Michael Praetorius had set them to music.
