Right you are! Gunther Hans Fritz! Known primarily as the Guntherian Hand, a few documents actually refer to this as the Fritzian Hand, and at least one source calls it the Hansian Hand.
Gunther Hans Fritz, like his cousin Guido, was a scholarly musician, but was more inclined toward secular music. He believed that producing a diagram similar to Guido's would help validate his cause of bringing a more popular, secular, and entertaining sound to liturgical music. His efforts were thwarted, however, by a strong clergy, who supported the musical tradition of the Church.
Fritz then turned his attention to building the first school of liturgical dance, but is perhaps best known for his pioneering research in textiles that ultimately resulted in the now-popular spandex chasuble.
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Would this be, perhaps, the oft-rumored but elusive Guntherian Hand then? This is a marvelous day for early music scholarship!
Right you are! Gunther Hans Fritz! Known primarily as the Guntherian Hand, a few documents actually refer to this as the Fritzian Hand, and at least one source calls it the Hansian Hand.
Gunther Hans Fritz, like his cousin Guido, was a scholarly musician, but was more inclined toward secular music. He believed that producing a diagram similar to Guido's would help validate his cause of bringing a more popular, secular, and entertaining sound to liturgical music. His efforts were thwarted, however, by a strong clergy, who supported the musical tradition of the Church.
Fritz then turned his attention to building the first school of liturgical dance, but is perhaps best known for his pioneering research in textiles that ultimately resulted in the now-popular spandex chasuble.
Any relation to P.D.Q. Bach ?
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