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An Introduction to Bach Studies

Author : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195122313
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Bach Studies written by Daniel R. Melamed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subjects covered include bibliographic tools of Bach research and sources of literature; Bach's family; Bach biographies; places Bach lived and worked; Bach's teaching; the liturgy; Bach source studies and the transmission of his music; repertory and editions; genres and individual vocal and instrumental works; performance practice; the reception and analysis of Bach's music; and many others.

An Introduction to Bach Studies

Author : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198028555
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Bach Studies written by Daniel R. Melamed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a guide to the resources and materials of Bach scholarship, both for the non specialist wondering where to begin in the enormous literature on J. S. Bach, and for the Bach specialist looking for a convenient and up to date survey of the field. It describes the tools of Bach research and how to use them, and suggests how to get started in Bach research by describing the principal areas of research and citing the essential literature on each piece and topic. The authors emphasize the issues that have engaged Bach scholars for generations, focusing on particularly important writings; on recent literature; on overviews, collections of essays and handbooks; and on writings in English. Subjects covered include bibliographic tools of Bach research and sources of literature; Bach's family; Bach biographies; places Bach lived and worked; Bach's teaching; the liturgy; Bach source studies and the transmission of his music; repertory and editions; genres and individual vocal and instrumental works; performance practice; the reception and analysis of Bach's music; and many others. The book also offers explanations of important and potentially confusing topics in Bach research, such as the organization of the annual cantata cycles, pitch standards, the history of the Berlin libraries, the structure of the critical commentary volumes in the Neue Bach Ausgabe, and so on. This book opens up the rich world of Bach scholarship to students, teachers, performers, and listeners.

An Introduction to Bach Studies

Author : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199865468
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Bach Studies written by Daniel R. Melamed and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bach Studies 2

Author : Don O. Franklin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521470674
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Bach Studies 2 written by Don O. Franklin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1995 volume presents twelve essays by internationally distinguished Bach scholars, covering a broad range of issues in this field.

The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach

Author : Robin Leaver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315452790
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach written by Robin Leaver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ashgate Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach provides an indispensable introduction to the Bach research of the past thirty-fifty years. It is not a lexicon providing information on all the major aspects of Bach's life and work, such as the Oxford Composer Companion: J. S. Bach. Nor is it an entry-level research tool aimed at those making a beginning of such studies. The valuable essays presented here are designed for the next level of Bach research and are aimed at masters and doctoral students, as well as others interested in coming to terms with the current state of Bach research. Each author covers three aspects within their specific subject area; firstly, to describe the results of research over the past thirty-fifty years, concentrating on the most significant and controversial, such as: the debate over Smend's NBA edition of the B minor Mass; Blume's conclusions with regard to Bach's religion in the wake of the 'new' chronology; Rifkin's one-to-a-vocal-part interpretation; the rediscovery of the Berlin Singakademie manuscripts in Kiev; the discovery of hitherto unknown manuscripts and documents and the re-evaluation of previously known sources. Secondly, each author provides a critical analysis of current research being undertaken that is exploring new aspects, reinterpreting earlier assumptions, and/or opening-up new methodologies. For example, Martin W. B. Jarvis has suggested that Anna Magdalena Bach composed the cello suites and contributed to other works of her husband - another controversial hypothesis, whose newly proposed forensic methodology requires investigation. On the other hand, research into Bach's knowledge of the Lutheran chorale tradition is currently underway, which is likely to shed more light on the composer's choices and usage of this tradition. Thirdly, each author identifies areas that are still in need of investigation and research.

Bach & God

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190606967
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Bach & God written by Michael Marissen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he also shows how Bach's pitches, rhythms, and tone colors can make contributions to a work's plausible meanings that go beyond setting texts in an aesthetically satisfying manner. In some of Bach's vocal repertory, the music puts a "spin" on the words in a way that turns out to be explainable as orthodox Lutheran in its orientation. In a few of Bach's vocal works, his otherwise puzzlingly fierce musical settings serve to underscore now unrecognized or unacknowledged verbal polemics, most unsettlingly so in the case of his church cantatas that express contempt for Jews and Judaism. Finally, even Bach's secular instrumental music, particularly the late collections of "abstract" learned counterpoint, can powerfully project certain elements of traditional Lutheran theology. Bach's music is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.

Hearing Bach's Passions

Author : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190490128
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Hearing Bach's Passions written by Daniel R. Melamed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Melamed offers a study of Bach's passion settings seeking to familiarise readers with some of the intriguing issues in the study & performance of older music. He explores what it means to listen to this music today.

Bach & God

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190606959
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Bach & God written by Michael Marissen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bach & God explores the religious character of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging insights from detailed investigations of both words and music. Bach is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.

Bach Studies

Author : Don O. Franklin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521088329
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Bach Studies written by Don O. Franklin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays reflects the breadth and scope of Bach research.

Hearing Bach's Passions

Author : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199865376
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Hearing Bach's Passions written by Daniel R. Melamed and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bach against Modernity

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197669514
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Bach against Modernity written by Michael Marissen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars and music lovers hold that J.S. Bach is a modern figure, as his music seems to speak directly to the aesthetic, spiritual, or emotional concerns of today's listeners. But, by eighteenth-century standards, Bach and his music in fact reflected and forcefully promoted a premodern world and life view. In Bach against Modernity, author Michael Marissen offers a new look at Bach that considers problems of inattentiveness to historical considerations in academic and popular writing about Bach's relation to the present. He also puts forward interpretive reassessments of key individual works by Bach and examines problems in modern comprehension of the partly archaic German texts that Bach set to music. Lastly, he explores Bach's music in relation to premodern versus enlightened attitudes toward Jews and Judaism and enquires into the theological character of Bach's secular instrumental music. Throughout, the book provides overlooked or misunderstood evidence of Bach's private engagement with religious and social issues that he also addressed in his public vocal compositions. Marissen ultimately argues that, while we are free to make use of Bach and his music in whatever ways we find fitting, we ought also to guard against miscasting Bach in our own ideological image and proclaiming the authenticity of that image, and hence its prestige value, in support of our own agendas.

About Bach

Author : Gregory G. Butler
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252090691
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book About Bach written by Gregory G. Butler and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Johann Sebastian Bach is a pivotal figure in the history of Western music is hardly news, and the magnitude of his achievement is so immense that it can be difficult to grasp. In About Bach, fifteen scholars show that Bach's importance extends from choral to orchestral music, from sacred music to musical parodies, and also to his scribes and students, his predecessors and successors. Further, the contributors demonstrate a diversity of musicological approaches, ranging from close studies of Bach's choices of musical form and libretto to wider analyses of the historical and cultural backgrounds that impinged upon his creations and their lasting influence. This volume makes significant contributions to Bach biography, interpretation, pedagogy, and performance. Contributors are Gregory G. Butler, Jen-Yen Chen, Alexander J. Fisher, Mary Dalton Greer, Robert Hill, Ton Koopman, Daniel R. Melamed, Michael Ochs, Mark Risinger, William H. Scheide, Hans-Joachim Schulze, Douglass Seaton, George B. Stauffer, Andrew Talle, and Kathryn Welter.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Studies

Author : Annette Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521836298
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Studies written by Annette Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the latest work by distinguished scholars on C. P. E. Bach.

Andreas Werckmeister's Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse

Author : Andreas Werckmeister
Publisher : Contextual Bach Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781498566346
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Andreas Werckmeister's Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse written by Andreas Werckmeister and published by Contextual Bach Studies. This book was released on 2017 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides extensive commentary and an English translation of 17th-century German music theorist Andreas Werckmeister's final treatise, the Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse. Topics discussed include theological reflections on music, numerology in musical intervals, music notation and solmization, and tunings.

Bach Studies

Author : Robin A. Leaver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000343537
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Bach Studies written by Robin A. Leaver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together a collection of Robin A. Leaver’s essays on Bach’s sacred music, exploring the religious aspects of this repertoire through consideration of three core themes: liturgy, hymnology, and theology. Rooted in a rich understanding of the historical sources, the book illuminates the varied ways in which Bach’s sacred music was informed and shaped by the religious, ritual, and intellectual contexts of his time, placing these works in the wider history of Protestant church music during the Baroque era. Including research from across a span of forty years, the chapters in this volume have been significantly revised and expanded for this publication, with several pieces appearing in English for the first time. Together, they offer an essential compendium of the work of a leading scholar of theological Bach studies.

Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195344340
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion written by Michael Marissen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bach's St. John Passion is surely one of the monuments of Western music, yet performances of it are inevitably controversial. In large part, this is because of the combination of the powerful and highly emotional music and a text that includes passages from a gospel marked by vehement anti-Judaic sentiments. What did this masterpiece mean in Bach's day and what does it mean today? Although bibliographies on Bach and Judaism have grown enormously since World War II, there has been very little work on the relationship between the two areas. This is hardly surprising; Judaica scholars and culture critics focusing on issues of anti-Semitism commonly lack musical training and are, in any event, quite reasonably interested in even more pressing social and political issues. Bach scholars, on the other hand, have mostly concentrated on narrowly defined musical topics. Strangely, therefore, almost no scholarly attention has been given to relationships between Lutheranism and the religion of Judaism as they affect Bach's most controversial work, the St. John Passion. Through a reappraisal of Bach's work and its contexts, Marissen confronts Bach and Judaism directly, providing interpretive commentary that could serve as a basis for a more informed and sensitive discussion of this troubling work. Consisting of a long interpretive essay, followed by an annotated literal translation of the libretto, a guide to recorded examples, and a detailed bibliography, this concise text provides the reader with the tools to assess the work on its own terms and in the appropriate context.

Listening to Bach

Author : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190881070
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Listening to Bach written by Daniel R. Melamed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can hear. Listening to Bach explores musical style as it was understood in the early eighteenth century. It encourages ways of listening that take eighteenth-century musical sensibilities into account and that recognize our place as inheritors of a long tradition of performance and interpretation. Daniel R. Melamed shows how to recognize old and new styles in sacred music of Bach's time, and how movements in these styles are constructed. This opens the possibility of listening to the Mass in B Minor as Bach's demonstration of the possibilities of contrasting, combining, and reconciling old and new styles. It also shows how to listen for elements that would have been heard as most significant in the early eighteenth century, including markers of sleep arias, love duets, secular choral arias, and other movement types. This offers a musical starting point for listening for the ways Bach put these types to use in the Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio. The book also offers ways to listen to and think about works created by parody, the re-use of music for new words and a new purpose, like almost all of the Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio. And it shows that modern performances of these works are stamped with audible consequences of our place in the twenty-first century. The ideological choices we make in performing the Mass and Oratorio, part of the legacy of their performance and interpretation, affect the way the work is understood and heard today. All these topics are illustrated with copious audio examples on a companion Web site, offering new ways of listening to some of Bach's greatest music.