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Bach's Passion

Author : RuthAnn Ridley
Publisher : Winepress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781579211707
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Bach's Passion written by RuthAnn Ridley and published by Winepress Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach worked late into the night. The notes in front of him sang. Little did he know that he was preparing to make history. This is the untold story of the man whom many consider the greatest composer who ever lived, the story of Bach's love for his family, his battles with fools and his passion for God.Bach's Passion transports you into the world of 18th century Germany. It places you at the scene of the creation of musical masterpieces. It inspires you with the assurance that perseverance will be rewarded.

Bach's St. Matthew Passion

Author : Victor Lederer
Publisher : Continuum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bach's St. Matthew Passion written by Victor Lederer and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Sebastian Bach's the "St Matthew Passion" stands as a singular expression of religious sensibility. Highlighting the inspiration Bach drew from opera, this book illuminates the hybrid forms that comprise the work, thereby clarifying many of the composer's dramatic strategies.

Hearing Bach's Passions

Author : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195347036
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 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 2005-03-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Sebastian Bach's two surviving passions--St. John and St. Matthew--are an essential part of the modern repertory, performed regularly both by professional ensembles and amateur groups. These large, complex pieces are well loved, but due to our distance from the original context in which they were performed, questions and problems emerge. Bach scholar Daniel Melamed examines the issues we encounter when we hear the passions performed today, and offers unique insight into Bach's passion settings. Rather than providing a movement-by-movement analysis, Melamed uses the Bach repertory to introduce readers to some of the intriguing issues in the study and performance of older music, and explores what it means to listen to this music today. For instance, Bach wrote the passions for a particular liturgical event at a specific time and place; we hear them hundreds of years later, often a world away and usually in concert performances. They were performed with vocal and instrumental forces deployed according to early 18th-century conceptions; we usually hear them now as the pinnacle of the choral/orchestral repertory, adapted to modern forces and conventions. In Bach's time, passion settings were revised, altered, and tampered with both by their composers and by other musicians who used them; today we tend to regard them as having fixed texts to be treated mith respect. Their music was sometimes recycled from other compositions or reused itself for other purposes; we have trouble imagining the familiar material of Bach's passion settings in any other guise. Melamed takes on these issues, exploring everything from the sources that transmit Bach's passion settings today to the issues surrounding performance practice (including the question of the size of Bach's ensemble). He delves into the passions as dramatic music, examines the problem of multiple versions of a work and the reconstruction of lost pieces, explores the other passions in Bach's performing repertory, and sifts through the puzzle of authorship. Highly accessible to the non-specialist, the book assumes no technical musical knowledge and does not rely on printed musical examples. Based on the most recent scholarship and using lucid prose, the book opens up the debates surrounding this repertory to music lovers, choral singers, church musicians, and students of Bach's music.

The Great Passion

Author : James Runcie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635570697
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Great Passion written by James Runcie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew Passion. In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a school in distant Leipzig. Despite his father's insistence that he try not to think of his mother too much, Stefan is haunted by her absence, and, to make matters worse, he's bullied by his new classmates. But when the school's cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach, takes notice of his new pupil's beautiful singing voice and draws him from the choir to be a soloist, Stefan's life is permanently changed. Over the course of the next several months, and under Bach's careful tutelage, Stefan's musical skill progresses, and he is allowed to work as a copyist for Bach's many musical works. But mainly, drawn into Bach's family life and away from the cruelty in the dorms and the lonely hours of his mourning, Stefan begins to feel at home. When another tragedy strikes, this time in the Bach family, Stefan bears witness to the depths of grief, the horrors of death, the solace of religion, and the beauty that can spring from even the most profound losses. Joyous, revelatory, and deeply moving, The Great Passion is an imaginative tour de force that tells the story of what it was like to sing, play, and hear Bach's music for the very first time.

St. Matthew Passion

Author : Hans Blumenberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150175906X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book St. Matthew Passion written by Hans Blumenberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Matthew Passion is Hans Blumenberg's sustained and devastating meditation on Jesus's anguished cry on the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Why did this abandonment happen, what does it mean within the logic of the Gospels, how have believers and nonbelievers understood it, and how does it live on in art? With rare philological acuity and vast historical learning, Blumenberg unfolds context upon context in which this cry has reverberated, from early Christian apologetics and heretics to twentieth-century literature and philosophy. Blumenberg's guide through this unending story of divine abandonment is Johann Sebastian Bach's monumental Matthäuspassion, the parabolic mirror that bundled eighteen hundred years of reflection on the fate of the crucified and the only available medium that allows us post-Christian listeners to feel the anguish of those who witnessed the events of the Passion. With interspersed references to writers such as Goethe, Rilke, Kafka, Freud, and Benjamin, Blumenberg gathers evidence to raise the singular question that, in his view, Christian theology has not been able to answer: How can an omnipotent God be so offended by his creatures that he must sacrifice and abandon his own Son?

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

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019511471X
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 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 on Demand. This book was released on 1998 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And strangely, almost no scholarly attention has been given to the relationships between Lutheranism and Judaism as they affect the St. John Passion. Through a reappraisal of Bach's work and its contexts, Michael Marissen confronts Bach and Judaism directly, providing interpretive commentary that could serve as a basis for more informed and sensitive discussions of this troubling work.

Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion (BWV 245): A Theological Commentary

Author : Andreas Loewe
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004272364
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion (BWV 245): A Theological Commentary written by Andreas Loewe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Theological Commentary is the first full-length work in English to consider Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion in its entirety, both the words and the music. Bach’s oratorio is a globally popular musical work, and a significant expression of Lutheran theology. The commentary explains the Biblical and poetic text, and its musical setting, line by line. Bach’s Passion is shown to be the work of a master craftsman and trained theologian, in the collaborative and cultural milieu of eighteenth-century, Lutheran Leipzig. For the first time, this work makes much German scholarship available in English, including archival sources, and includes a new scholarly translation of the libretto. The musical and theological terms are explained, to enable an interdisciplinary understanding of the Passion’s meaning and continued significance.

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's St. John Passion for the Twenty-First Century

Author : Michael Fuchs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538179970
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Bach's St. John Passion for the Twenty-First Century written by Michael Fuchs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using a contemporary lens, this book focuses on how J.S. Bach used his compositional creativity to interpret the message of the Johannine passion narrative from a Lutheran perspective and provides a new translation of the libretto. It provides a brief historical context, important points of theological scholarship, and performance history"--

Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion : Genesis, Transmission, and Meaning

Author : Alfred Dürr
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191588717
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion : Genesis, Transmission, and Meaning written by Alfred Dürr and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book (published in German by B--auml--;renreiter in 1988 and now available in English translation for the first time) is a comprehensive guide to the genesis, transmission, structure, meaning, and performance considerations of Bach's St John Passion. The St John Passion is one of Bach's most fascinating works. Its text demonstrates a profound understanding of St John's Gospel. The musical design of the choruses with their numerous interrelationships is quite unique and requires some explanation. The fact that the Passion exists in four different versions leads D--uuml--;rr to ask which changes were intentional and which were the result of practical constraints or of orders issued by church authorities. The introduction to the work is preceded by a detailed account of its genesis and transmission, and the uniquely complicated nature of the sources. The discussion of the Passion itself is based on the assumption that what Bach wanted to say to the Leipzig congregation on Good Friday was designed to be understood in verbal and musical terms. Number symbolism, 'eye music', and encrypted information do not form the essence of what Bach was trying to communicate to us.

Bach's Dialogue with Modernity

Author : John Butt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521883563
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Bach's Dialogue with Modernity written by John Butt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed 2010 analysis of Bach's Passions which demonstrates how they reflect and constitute priorities and conditions of the western world.

Bach

Author : Charles Sanford Terry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bach written by Charles Sanford Terry and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244)

Author : Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244) written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bach in Berlin

Author : Celia Applegate
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455820
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Bach in Berlin written by Celia Applegate and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the work before a glittering audience of Berlin artists and intellectuals, Prussian royals, and civic notables. The concert soon became the stuff of legend, sparking a revival of interest in and performance of Bach that has continued to this day. Mendelssohn's performance gave rise to the notion that recovering and performing Bach's music was somehow "national work." In 1865 Wagner would claim that Bach embodied "the history of the German spirit's inmost life." That the man most responsible for the revival of a masterwork of German Protestant culture was himself a converted Jew struck contemporaries as less remarkable than it does us today—a statement that embraces both the great achievements and the disasters of 150 years of German history. In this book, Celia Applegate asks why this particular performance crystallized the hitherto inchoate notion that music was central to Germans' collective identity. She begins with a wonderfully readable reconstruction of the performance itself and then moves back in time to pull apart the various cultural strands that would come together that afternoon in the Singakademie. The author investigates the role played by intellectuals, journalists, and amateur musicians (she is one herself) in developing the notion that Germans were "the people of music." Applegate assesses the impact on music's cultural place of the renewal of German Protestantism, historicism, the mania for collecting and restoring, and romanticism. In her conclusion, she looks at the subsequent careers of her protagonists and the lasting reverberations of the 1829 performance itself.

Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow

Author : Karol Berger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520933699
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow written by Karol Berger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously; second, that this change in the structure of musical time was an aspect of a larger transformation in the way educated Europeans began to imagine and think about time with the onset of modernity, a part of a shift from the premodern Christian outlook to the modern post-Christian worldview. Until this historical moment, as Berger illustrates in his analysis of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, music was simply "in time." Its successive events unfolded one after another, but the distinction between past and future, earlier and later, was not central to the way the music was experienced and understood. But after the shift, as he finds in looking at Mozart's Don Giovanni, the experience of linear time is transformed into music's essential subject matter; the cycle of time unbends and becomes an arrow. Berger complements these musical case studies with a rich survey of the philosophical, theological, and literary trends influencing artists during this period.

Bach's Major Vocal Works

Author : Markus Rathey
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030021720X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Bach's Major Vocal Works written by Markus Rathey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach's major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this concise and accessible book provides an introduction to the music and cultural contexts of the composer's most beloved masterpieces, including the Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, and St. John Passion. In addition to providing historical information, each chapter highlights significant aspects--such as the theology of love--of a particular piece. This penetrating volume is the first to treat the vocal works as a whole, showing how the compositions were embedded in their original performative context within the liturgy as well as discussing Bach's musical style, from the detailed level of individual movements to the overarching aspects of each work. Published in the approach to Easter when many of these vocal works are performed, this outstanding volume will appeal to casual concertgoers and scholars alike." -- Publisher's description