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Author : Nathan Broder
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Collector's Bach written by Nathan Broder and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1978-04-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discography with brief biographical sketch.
Author : Jeanette Winter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152006297
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Sebastian written by Jeanette Winter and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how Johann Sebastian Bach survived the sorrows of his childhood and composed the music the world has come to love.
Author : John Butt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521587808
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (878 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Bach written by John Butt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Bach, first published in 1997, goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and composer. The book is divided into three parts. Part One is concerned with the historical context, the society, beliefs and the world-view of Bach's age. The second part discusses the music and Bach's compositional style, while Part Three considers Bach's influence and the performance and reception of his music through the succeeding generations. This Companion benefits from the insights and research of some of the most distinguished Bach scholars, and from it the reader will gain a notion of the diversity of current thought on this great composer.
Author : Paul Elie
Publisher : Union Books
ISBN 13 : 1908526416
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Reinventing Bach written by Paul Elie and published by Union Books. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Sebastian Bach – celebrated pipe organist, court composer and master of sacred music – was also a technical pioneer. Working in Germany in the early eighteenth century, he invented new instruments and carried out experiments in tuning, the effects of which are still with us today. Two hundred years later, a number of extraordinary musicians have utilised the music of Bach to thrilling effect through the art of recording, furthering their own virtuosity and reinventing the composer for our time. In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie brilliantly blends the stories of modern musicians with a polyphonic account of our most celebrated composer’ s life to create a spellbinding narrative of the changing place of music in our lives. We see the sainted organist Albert Schweitzer playing to a mobile recording unit set up at London’ s Church of All Hallows in order to spread Bach’ s organ works to the world beyond the churches, and Pablo Casals’ s Abbey Road recordings of Bach’ s cello suites transform the middle-class sitting room into a hotbed of existentialism; we watch Leopold Stokowski persuade Walt Disney to feature his own grand orchestrations of Bach in the animated classical-music movie Fantasia – which made Bach the sound of children’ s playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike – and we witness how Glenn Gould’ s Goldberg Variations made Bach the byword for postwar cool. Through the Beatles and Switched-on Bach and Gö del, Escher, Bach – through film, rock music, the Walkman, the CD and up to Yo-Yo Ma and the iPod – Elie shows us how dozens of gifted musicians searched, experimented and collaborated with one another in the service of a composer who emerged as the prototype of the spiritualised, technically savvy artist.
Author : Markus Zepf
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252078454
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Organs of J.S. Bach written by Markus Zepf and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in cooperation with the American Bach Society."
Author : Helen Garner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593470761
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)
Download or read book The Children's Bach written by Helen Garner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Now in a new edition with a foreword by Rumaan Alam, a modern classic from one of Australia’s greatest writers • "It’s high time American readers knew her generous, category-defying imagination."—New York Times "The Children’s Bach is [Garner’s] masterpiece."—Public Books Set in suburban Melbourne in the early 1980s, The Children’s Bach centers on Dexter and Athena Fox, their two sons, and the insulated world they’ve built together. Despite the routine challenges of domestic life, they are largely happy. But when a friend from Dexter’s past resurfaces and introduces the couple to the city’s bohemian underground—unbound by routine and driven by desire—Athena begins to wonder if life might hold more for her, and the tenuous bonds that tie the Foxes together start to fray. A literary institution in Australia, Helen Garner’s perfectly formed novels embody the tumultuous 1970s and 1980s. Drawn on a small canvas and with a subtle musical backdrop, The Children’s Bach is “a jewel” (Ben Lerner) within Garner’s revered catalogue, a beloved work that solidified her place among the masters of modern letters, a finely etched masterpiece that weighs the burdens of commitment against the costs of liberation.
Author : Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457471896
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (718 download)
Download or read book First Lessons in Bach written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 28 short, melodious pieces by J. S. Bach was compiled and edited by Walter Carroll in order to provide a varied set of easier compositions for study by pianists first being introduced to Bach's work. Includes 11 Minuets, 4 Polonaises, 3 Marches, 2 Musettes, a Bourree, 4 Gavottes, a Scherzo, a Sarabande, and a Prelude.
Author : Ruth Tatlow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131635234X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Bach's Numbers written by Ruth Tatlow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century Germany the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of its proportions still held philosophical, moral and devotional significance. Reproducing proportions close to the unity (1:1) across compositions could render them beautiful, perfect and even eternal. Using the principles of her groundbreaking theory of proportional parallelism and the latest source study research, Ruth Tatlow reveals how Bach used the number of bars to create numerical perfection across his published collections, and explains why he did so. The first part of the book illustrates the wide-ranging application of belief in the unity, showing how planning a well-proportioned structure was a normal compositional procedure in Bach's time. In the second part Tatlow presents practical demonstrations of this in Bach's works, illustrating the layers of proportion that appear within a movement, a work, between two works in a collection, across a collection and between collections.
Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674059269
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Bach written by Christoph Wolff and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two centuries after his lifetime, J. S. Bach's work continues to set musical standards. Noted Bach scholar Christoph Wolff offers new perspectives on the composer's life and remarkable career.
Author : Annette Richards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022680626X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Temple of Fame and Friendship written by Annette Richards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the renowned portrait collection assembled by C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach's second son. Containing nearly 400 objects from oil paintings to engraved prints, Bach's collection is a remarkable artifact of eighteenth-century music culture. Taken together, the portraits provide a vivid panorama of music history and culture as well as the sensibility and humor of the time in which they were made. Most importantly, Richards argues, the collection sought to establish music as an object of aesthetic, philosophical, and historiographical value-as an art with a history. Richards makes the collection come alive, showing readers what it was like to tour the portrait gallery and to experience music in a room whose walls were packed with art. She uses the collection to analyzes the "portraitive" aspect of Bach's music, engaging with the influential theories of Swiss physiognomist Johann Caspar Lavater. She also explores the collection as a way to cultivating and preserving friendship, connecting this to the culture of remembrance that resonates in Bach's domestic music. Richards shows how the new music historiography of the late eighteenth century, rich in anecdote, memoir, and verbal portrait, was deeply indebted to portrait collecting and its negotiation between presence and detachment, fact and feeling"--
Author : Anne Leahy
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810881810
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book J. S. Bach's "Leipzig" Chorale Preludes written by Anne Leahy and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, the great Bach scholar Anne Leahy died at the age of 46. She was a leading light in Bach studies and lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) Conservatory of Music and Drama. Posthumously edited by renowned Bach scholar Robin A. Leaver, Leahy's dissertation research forms the basis for this original study of the preludes to Bach's Leipzig chorales. Originally composed in Weimar and later revised in Leipzig, Bach's compositions have been a source of some puzzlement. As Leahy notes, "the original intentions of Bach and the possible purpose of this collection might be regarded as speculative." Working from available sources, however, she argues that through the careful examination of the links among the music, hymn texts, and theological sources some answers may be had. From Bach's personal and deep interest in Lutheran theology to his enormous musical passion, Leahy considers closely a series of critical questions: does the original manuscript for the chorales simply reflect a randomgathering of compositions or is there a common theme in setting? How critical is the order of the chorales and what is the theological significance of that order? Were the chorales a unified collection, and if so, which parts were to be included and whichnot? Indeed, were the chorales themselves part of a possibly larger corpus? As Leahy makes evident, there are no simple answers, which is why she considers critical the relationship the texts of the hymns to the chorales and to one another, outlining atheological pattern that is vital to fully grasping the guiding philosophy of these compositions. J. S. Bach's "Leipzig" Chorale Preludes: Music, Text, Theology is ideally suited for Bach scholars and those with a general interest in the intricateconnections between text and music in the composition of religious music.
Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393651797
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work written by Christoph Wolff and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art. Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms; he was notoriously reluctant to write about his life and work. Instead, he methodically organized certain pieces into carefully designed collections. These benchmark works, all of them without parallel or equivalent, produced a steady stream of transformative ideas that stand as paradigms of Bach’s musical art. In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize–finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff takes his cue from his famous subject. Wolff delves deeply into the composer’s own rich selection of collected music, cutting across conventional boundaries of era, genre, and instrument. Emerging from a complex and massive oeuvre, Bach’s Musical Universe is a focused discussion of a meaningful selection of compositions—from the famous Well-Tempered Clavier, violin and cello solos, and Brandenburg Concertos to the St. Matthew Passion, Art of Fugue, and B-minor Mass. Unlike any study undertaken before, this book details Bach’s creative process across the various instrumental and vocal genres. This array of compositions illustrates the depth and variety at the essence of the composer’s musical art, as well as his unique approach to composition as a process of imaginative research into the innate potential of his chosen material. Tracing Bach’s evolution as a composer, Wolff compellingly illuminates the ideals and legacy of this giant of classical music in a new, refreshing light for everyone, from the amateur to the virtuoso.
Author : Russell Stinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190091223
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Bach's Legacy written by Russell Stinson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bach's Legacy: The Music as Heard by Later Masters, renowned Bach scholar Russell Stinson examines how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - Mendelssohn, Schumann, Wagner, and Elgar - engaged with the musical legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821657
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos written by Michael Marissen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies. By reference to contemporary music theory, to alternate notions of the meaning of "concerto," and to various eighteenth-century conventions of form and instrumentation, the book argues that the Brandenburg Concertos are better understood not as an arbitrary collection of unrelated examples of "pure" instrumental music, but rather as a carefully compiled and meaningfully organized set. It shows how Bach's concertos challenge (as opposed to reflect) existing musical and social hierarchies. Careful consideration of Lutheran theology and Bach's documented understanding of it reveals, however, that his music should not be understood to call for progressive political action. One important message of Lutheranism, and, in this interpretation, of Bach's concertos, is that in the next world, the heavenly one, the hierarchies of the present world will no longer be necessary. Bach's music more likely instructs its listeners how to think about and spiritually cope with contemporary hierarchies than how to act upon them. In this sense, contrary to currently accepted views, Bach's concertos share with his extensive output of vocal music for the Lutheran liturgy an essentially religious character.
Author : Robin Leaver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315452790
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
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.
Author : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521418645
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (186 download)
Download or read book J. S. Bach and the German Motet written by Daniel R. Melamed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Bach's motets in the context of the German motet tradition.
Author : David Yearsley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521199018
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Bach's Feet written by David Yearsley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yearsley explores the cultural significance of making music with hands and feet, a mode of performance unique to the organ.
