'Mutato semper habitu': Heinrich Schutz and the Culture of Rhetoric

Emotion in the German Lutheran Baroque and the Development of Subjective Time Consciousness

“…As Bettina Varwig (2009) has recently shown, it is entirely appropriate to relate Schütz's activity as a composer to rhetoric, but traditional scholarship has been too narrow in its concentration on the individual, localised figures and their possible meanings. By acknowledging the rhetorical tradition stemming from Erasmus, Varwig suggests a much broader and more powerful conception by which the meaning of a text is amplified through repetition, rearrangement and formal patterning.…”