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Author: John Butt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-06-24
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780521387163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Burne Hogarth
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Published: 1988-04-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0823013685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive book ever published on drawing hands uses a revolutionary system for visualizing the hand in an almost infinite number of positions.
Author: Yo Tomita
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-10-17
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1107469902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780199248841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow 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.
Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780674059269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore 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: Lewis Lockwood
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2005-01-04
Total Pages: 621
ISBN-13: 0393326381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten for the general reader, this book reveals how Beethoven's great works reflect both his artistic individuality and the deepest philosophical and political currents of his age.
Author: Michael Marissen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-04-20
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0190606967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBach & 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.
Author: John Eliot Gardiner
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780713996623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohann 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.
Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
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Published: 1912
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