Within the new, three-volume edition of the Tabulatura nova, Part II is of particular interest: its introduction features Harald Vogel’s extensive essay “Keyboard Playing Techniques around 1600.” Whoever is familiar with Vogel’s outstanding accomplishments in the field of early 17th-century organ music will know that this text reflects the performer’s decade-long experience. Scheidt’s opus summum is thus not simply continued in Volume 2, but elucidated in an even more comprehensive manner than i...