Bach: Mass in B Minor

Bach: Mass in B Minor

Author: John Butt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991-06-24

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780521387163

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The Mass in B Minor is arguably Bach's greatest single work. John Butt gives an absorbing account of the work's genesis, its historical context, and its reception by later generations.


Exploring Bach's B-minor Mass

Exploring Bach's B-minor Mass

Author: Yo Tomita

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-10-17

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1107469902

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The B-minor Mass has always represented a fascinating challenge to musical scholarship. Composed over the course of Johann Sebastian Bach's life, it is considered by many to be the composer's greatest and most complex work. The fourteen essays assembled in this volume originate from the International Symposium 'Understanding Bach's B-minor mass' at which scholars from eighteen countries gathered to debate the latest topics in the field. In revised and updated form, they comprise a thorough and systematic study of Bach's Opus Ultimum, including a wide range of discussions relating to the Mass's historical background and contexts, structure and proportion, sources and editions, and the reception of the work in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the light of important new developments in the study of the piece, this collection demonstrates the innovation and rigour for which Bach scholarship has become known.


Drawing Dynamic Hands

Drawing Dynamic Hands

Author: Burne Hogarth

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 1988-04-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0823013685

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The most comprehensive book ever published on drawing hands uses a revolutionary system for visualizing the hand in an almost infinite number of positions.


Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Author: Christoph Wolff

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780199248841

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Now available in paperback, this landmark biography was first published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach's death. Written by a leading Bach scholar, this book presents a new picture of the composer. Christoph Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between Bach's life and his music, showing how the composer's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher.


Bach

Bach

Author: Christoph Wolff

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780674059269

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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.


The Tchaikovsky Papers

The Tchaikovsky Papers

Author: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0300191367

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A wealth of previously unpublished letters and personal documents drawn from the family archives of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky


Bach, the Mass in B Minor

Bach, the Mass in B Minor

Author: George B. Stauffer

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780300099669

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In this book George B. Stauffer explores the music and complex history of Bach's last and possibly greatest masterpiece. Stauffer examines the B-Minor Mass in greater detail than ever before, demonstrating for the first time Bach's reliance on contemporary models from the Dresden Mass repertory and his brilliantly innovative methods of unifying his immense composition. Musicians, music scholars, students, and music lovers will find in this engagingly written book a wealth of information about Bach's extraordinary choral work. Stauffer surveys the roots of the Mass Ordinary text and its treatment in settings known to Bach. He looks at the events that led to the writing of the B-Minor Mass and places the work within the context of the composer's late style. In three deeply informed chapters, Stauffer considers the individual sections of the Mass--the Kyrie and Gloria, the Credo, and the Sanctus and Agnus Dei. The book also traces the history of the work after Bach's death, addresses specific issues of performance practice, and investigates the qualities that give the B-Minor Mass its universal appeal.


Music in the Castle of Heaven

Music in the Castle of Heaven

Author: John Eliot Gardiner

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780713996623

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Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the unfathomable composers in the history of music. This book explains the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects - and what it can tell us about Bach the man.


Exploring Bach's B-minor Mass

Exploring Bach's B-minor Mass

Author: Yo Tomita

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-10-17

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1107007909

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The collection of essays represents a through and systematic study of Bach's B-minor Mass by leading scholars in the field and includes a range of discussions relating to the Mass's historical background and contexts, structure, sources and editions, and its reception in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.