St. Matthew Passion

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

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Book Synopsis St. Matthew Passion by : Hans Blumenberg

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?

Bach's St. Matthew Passion

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

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Book Synopsis Bach's St. Matthew Passion by : Victor Lederer

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.

The Gospel According to Matthew

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Publisher : Canongate U.S.
ISBN 13 : 9780802136169
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book The Gospel According to Matthew written by and published by Canongate U.S.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the book of the King James Bible in a series of beautifully designed, small-format volumes. The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with the spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.

Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Book Synopsis Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244) by : Johann Sebastian Bach

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Bach in Berlin

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455820
Total Pages : 303 pages
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Book Synopsis Bach in Berlin by : Celia Applegate

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.

The Great Passion

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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

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501759078
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis St. Matthew Passion by : Hans Blumenberg

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 257 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?

Bach's Major Vocal Works

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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

Hearing Bach's Passions

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195347036
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Hearing Bach's Passions by : Daniel R. Melamed

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.

Another Beauty

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820324108
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Another Beauty by : Adam Zagajewski

Download or read book Another Beauty written by Adam Zagajewski and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant memoir is Adam Zagajewski's recollection of 1960s and 1970s communist Poland, where he was a fledgling writer, student of philosophy, and vocal dissident at the university in Krakow, Poland's most beautiful and ancient city.

Holy Bible (NIV)

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Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310294142
Total Pages : 6637 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Holy Bible (NIV) written by Various Authors, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 6637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.

St Matthew Passion

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540337580
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book St Matthew Passion written by J. S. Bach and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vocal score for J.S. Bach's great St Matthew Passion (BMW 244) in the original German, for solo voices, two choirs and keyboard reduction.

Bach & God

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190606975
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis Bach & God by : Michael Marissen

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 288 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.

The St. Matthew Passion

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
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Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion (BWV 245): A Theological Commentary

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

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Book Synopsis Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion (BWV 245): A Theological Commentary by : Andreas Loewe

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 on Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion explains the historical context of Lutheran church music, and then explains the Biblical and poetic text, and its musical setting, line by line.

St. Matthew Passion in Full Score

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486172538
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book St. Matthew Passion in Full Score written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great choral masterpiece long considered the noblest, most inspired musical treatment of the crucifixion of Christ. Reprinted from the definitive Breitkopf & Härtel edition.

The St. Matthew Passion

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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780802839008
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The St. Matthew Passion written by John Reeves and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twenty-one verse meditations on Johann Sebastian Bach's musical setting of St. Matthew's account of Christ's Passion.