Edited by Margaret Williams. From the series: Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era. Preface, xv p. This volume contains a selection of the music he composed for the office of Vespers in the court church during the 1720s. Second only to the Mass in importance in Catholic liturgy, the different components of the Vespers service - the psalms, Marian antiphons, hymns, and Magnificat - afforded composers great opportunity for a variety of dramatic expression, an opportunity that Heinichen fully exploited. Heinichen's settings use a mixture of chorus and vocal solos and are all with instrumental accompaniment. 352 p.