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, the Mass in B Minor

Bach, the Mass in B Minor

Author: George B. Stauffer

Publisher: Schirmer G Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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Taking these issues into account, the present volume reevaluates the complex history of the B-Minor Mass and examines in depth its remarkable music. Chapter 1 surveys the roots of the Mass Ordinary text and its treatment in musical settings that were known to Bach. Chapter 2 examines the events that led to the writing of the B-Minor Mass. Chapter 3 to 5 are devoted to a detailed inspection of the music, incorporating the new knowledge of Bach's late compositional habits and Mass conventions in Dresden. Chapter 6 follows the performance history of the Mass to the present day.


Drunk on Genocide

Drunk on Genocide

Author: Edward B. Westermann

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1501754203

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In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated "performative masculinity," expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. Such inebriated exhibitions extended from meetings of top Nazi officials to the rank and file, celebrating at the grave sites of their victims. Westermann argues that, contrary to the common misconception of the SS and police as stone-cold killers, they were, in fact, intoxicated with the act of murder itself. Drunk on Genocide highlights the intersections of masculinity, drinking ritual, sexual violence, and mass murder to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset, motivation, and mentality of killers as they prepared for, and participated in, mass extermination. Published in Association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.


The Mass Marketing of Politics

The Mass Marketing of Politics

Author: Bruce I. Newman

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1999-07-02

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0761909591

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Bruce I. Newman reveals how the US public is being manipulated by marketing strategies and tactics taken directly from the most successful market-led companies. He uncovers the emphasis on style over substance and sound-bite over real dialogue.


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.


General Instruction of the Roman Missal

General Instruction of the Roman Missal

Author: Catholic Church

Publisher: USCCB Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781574555431

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From USCCB Publishing, this revision of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) seeks to promote more conscious, active, and full participation of the faithful in the mystery of the Eucharist. While the Missale Romanum contains the rite and prayers for Mass, the GIRM provides specific detail about each element of the Order of Mass as well as other information related to the Mass.


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.