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Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio

Author : Markus Rathey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019027526X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio written by Markus Rathey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decades of the 17th century, the feast of Christmas in Lutheran Germany underwent a major transformation when theologians and local governments waged an early modern "war on Christmas," discouraging riotous pageants and carnivalesque rituals in favor of more personal and internalized expressions of piety. Christmas rituals, such as the "Heilig Christ" plays and the rocking of the child (Kindelwiegen) were abolished, and Christian devotion focused increasingly on the metaphor of a birth of Christ in the human heart. John Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio, composed in 1734, both reflects this new piety and conveys the composer's experience living through this tumult during his own childhood and early career. Markus Rathey's book is the first thorough study of this popular masterpiece in English. While giving a comprehensive overview of the Christmas Oratorio as a whole, the book focuses on two themes in particular: the cultural and theological understanding of Christmas in Bach's time and the compositional process that led Bach from the earliest concepts to the completed piece. The cultural and religious context of the oratorio provides the backdrop for Rathey's detailed analysis of the composition, in which he explores Bach's compositional practices, for example, his reuse and parodies of movements that had originally been composed for secular cantatas. The book analyzes Bach's original score and sheds new light on the way Bach wrote the piece, how he shaped musical themes, and how he revised his initial ideas into the final composition.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248)

Author : Ignace Bossuyt
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058674210
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Johann Sebastian Bach, Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) written by Ignace Bossuyt and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to provide the inquisitive listener with a guide to exploring the many layers of meaning found in Bach's Christmas Oratorio. The first section offers a general sketch of the specific context in which this composition was created at the end of 1734, shedding light on the work's liturgical function and taking a closer look at the biblical and broader religious themes. This first section will also focus on the contemporary textual and musical components of the oratorio genre, of which Bach's composition is a prime example. The second section is a detailed discussion of the 64 movements making up the work, with a focus on three aspects: the text, the music and the relation between the two. The nature of the musical setting and its structure depends on the nature of the text, be it prose (the Bible story) or poetry (the chorales and the inserted commentary), narrative or dramatic (indirect or direct speech). Moreover, the music was governed by the particular musical canons of the day, which largely determined and regulated the structure of each section and the coherence between successive sections or those at a greater remove from one another. In order to get to the essence of Bach's oeuvre, the reader-listener must be prepared to become immersed in the literary and musical idiom, the specific terminology and "grammar" of the day.

The Bible in Music

Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443868485
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Bible in Music written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between the Bible and the world of music, an association that is recorded from ancient times in the Old Testament, and one that has continued to characterize the cultural self-expression of Western Civilization ever since. The study surveys the emergence of this close relationship in the era following the end of the Roman Empire and through the Middle Ages, taking particular note of the role of Gregorian chant, folk music and the popularity of mystery, morality and passion plays in reflection of the Sacred Scripture and its themes during those times. With the emergence of polyphony and the advent of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, the interaction between the Bible and music increased dramatically, culminating in the evolution of opera and oratorio as specific genres during the Renaissance and the Early Baroque period. Both these genres have proved essential to the interplay between sacred revelation and the various types of music that have come to determine cultural expression in the history of Europe. The book initially provides an overview of how the various themes and types of Biblical literature have been explored in the story of Western music. It then looks closely at the role of oratorio and opera over four centuries, considering the most famous and striking examples and considering how the music has responded in different ages to the sacred text and narrative. The last chapter examines how biblical theology has been used to dramatic purpose in a particular operatic genre – that of French Grand Opera. The academic apparatus includes an iconography, a detailed bibliography and an index of biblical and musical references, themes and subjects.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1504 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of the Oratorio

Author : Howard E. Smither
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807837768
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Oratorio written by Howard E. Smither and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American musicological writing at its communicative best, A History of the Oratorio offers a synthesis and critical appraisal so exhaustive and reliable that the serious student of the oratorio will be compelled to look to these volumes as an indispensable source. No work on the history of the oratorio has yet appeared in the English language that is comparable in scope and treatment with Howard Smither's comprehensive four-volume work. The first part of volume 2 examines in depth the antecedents and origins of the oratorio in Protestant Germany in the seventeenth century. It includes discussions of the Lutheran Historia, sacred dramatic dialogues, and the Lubeck Abendmusiken of Buxtehude. The second part treats the oratorio in Protestant Germany in the early eighteenth century and examines Handel, Reinhard Keiser, and J.S. Bach. The third part considers primarily the English oratorios of Handel. In most sections of A History of the Oratorio, the author has selected for special attention a few oratorios that are representative of each geographical area and period. An exception to this procedure is in the section on Handel in this volume, where all of the composer's English oratorios are treated fully with particular reference to recent specialized Handel studies. Volume 1, The Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Italy, Vienna, Paris, and Volume 3, The Oratorio in the classical Era, expand and continue the study of oratorio history. Although this series was originally announced as a three-volume study, Smither will conclude with a fourth volume. Originally published in 1977. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Christmas Oratorio

Author : Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas Oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Sales America). For solo voices, SATB chorus and Orchestra Edited with a new English translation by Neil Jenkins.

A History of the Oratorio: The oratoria in the baroque era: Protestant Germany and England

Author : Howard E. Smither
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807812945
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Oratorio: The oratoria in the baroque era: Protestant Germany and England written by Howard E. Smither and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Oratorio: Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Protestant Germany and England

Listening to Bach

Author : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190881054
Total Pages : 177 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 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume encourages eighteenth-century ways of listening to J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio. It explores the concept of musical style, suggests ways to listen to works created by the re-use of music for new words, and shows how modern performances are stamped with audible consequences of our place in the twenty-first century

A History of the Oratorio: The oratorio in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Author : Howard E. Smither
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807825112
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Oratorio: The oratorio in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries written by Howard E. Smither and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored th

The Cambridge Companion to Bach

Author : John Butt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107493773
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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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.

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.

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

J.S. Bach: the Vocal Texts in English Translation with Commentary

Author : Z. Philip Ambrose
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664119841
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book J.S. Bach: the Vocal Texts in English Translation with Commentary written by Z. Philip Ambrose and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prof. Ambrose has revised and enlarged into one volume his 2006 two-volume English translations of virtually all the vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach. By preserving the meter and key-word placement of the original, J.S. Bach: The Vocal Texts in English Translation with Commentary is a good guide to the poetics of Bach's music and will help listeners and interpreters perceive more clearly Bach's own "translation" of text into music.

The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume II: 1717-1750

Author : Richard D. P. Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199696284
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach, Volume II: 1717-1750 written by Richard D. P. Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This last in a two-volume study examines Bach's musical compositional development in his later years, including his time at Cðthen and Leipzig.

The Christmas Oratorio

Author : Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021409003
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Christmas Oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic Christmas oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach has been delighting audiences for centuries. Featuring beautiful vocal solos and intricate choral arrangements, this piece is perfect for anyone looking to celebrate the holiday season in a truly memorable way. With clear notation and helpful performance notes, this edition will be a valuable addition to any musician's library. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach

Author : Mark A. Peters
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498554962
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach written by Mark A. Peters and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach’s vocal compositions—including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas—with particular attention to how such meaning arises out of the intentionality of Bach’s own compositional choices or (in Part IV in particular) how meaning is discovered, and created, through the reception of Bach’s vocal works. And the authors do not consider such compositional choices in a vacuum, but rather discuss Bach’s artistic intentions within the framework of broader cultural trends—social, historical, theological, musical, etc. Such questions of compositional choice and meaning frame the four primary approaches to Bach’s vocal music taken by the authors in this volume, as seen across the book’s four parts: Part I: How might the study of historical theology inform our understanding of Bach’s compositional choices in his music for the church (cantatas, Passions, masses)? Part II: How can we apply traditional analytical tools to understand better how Bach’s compositions were created and how they might have been heard by his contemporaries? Part III: What we can understand anew through the study of Bach’s self-borrowing (i.e., parody), which always changed the earlier meaning of a composition through changes in textual content, compositional characteristics, the work’s context within a larger composition, and often the performance context (from court to church, for example)? Part IV: What can the study of reception teach us about a work’s meaning(s) in Bach’s time, during the time of his immediate successors, and at various points since then (including our present)? The chapters in this volume thus reflect the breadth of current Bach research in its attention not only to source study and analysis, but also to meanings and contexts for understanding Bach’s compositions.

The Christmas Oratorio

Author : Göran Tunström
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567920086
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Christmas Oratorio written by Göran Tunström and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1995 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christmas Oratorio begins in the 1930s, when Solveig Nordensson (wife of Aron and mother of Sidner) is accidentally killed. The grieving family abandons its home and moves to another town, hoping to start afresh, but finds that its emotional burdens have emigrated with it. Aron, bereft by the loss of his wife, starts "seeing" her in capricious hallucinations, and tragically seeks her reincarnation in a love-starved woman half a world away. The introverted Sidner begins a quest for emotional maturity that leads him into odd friendships with a remarkably self-reliant street boy and a free-spirited older woman. And grandson Victor, heir to the tortured legacy left by Solveig's death, finds redemption for himself in a staging of Bach's Christmas Oratorio - a performance begun by Solveig half a century earlier and interrupted by her tragic death.