Some Notes on Bach's Church-cantatas
Author: Ebenezer Prout
Publisher: London : Breitkopf & Härtel
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 64
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Publisher: London : Breitkopf & Härtel
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Simpson Hannam
Publisher: London, Oxford U. P
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eric Chafe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-03-27
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0199882975
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bach's cantatas are among the highest achievements of Western musical art, yet studies of the individual cantatas that are both illuminating and detailed are few. In this book, noted Bach expert Eric Chafe combines theological, historical, analytical, and interpretive approaches to the cantatas to offer readers and listeners alike the richest possible experience of these works. A respected theorist of seventeenth-century music, Chafe is sensitive to the composer's intentions and to the enduring and universal qualities of the music itself. Concentrating on a small number of representative cantatas, mostly from the Leipzig cycles of 1723-24 and 1724-25, and in particular on Cantata 77, Chafe shows how Bach strove to mirror both the dogma and the mystery of religious experience in musical allegory. Analyzing Bach Cantatas offers valuable information on the theological relevance of the structure of the liturgical year for the design and content of these works, as well as a survey of the theories of modality that inform Bach's compositional style. Chafe demonstrates that, while Bach certainly employed "pictorialism" and word-painting in his compositions, his method of writing music was a more complex amalgam of theological concepts and music theory. Regarding the cantatas as musical allegories that reflect the fundamental tenets of Lutheran theology as established during Bach's lifetime, Chafe synthesizes a number of key musical and theological ideas to illuminate the essential character of these great works. This unique and insightful book offers an essential methodology for understanding one of the central bodies of work in the Western musical canon. It will prove indispensable for all students and scholars of Bach's work, musicology, and theological studies.
Author: William Gillies Whittaker
Publisher: London, Oxford U. P
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alec Robertson
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christoph Wolff
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780393041064
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach are among the best known and most frequently performed musical works of the Baroque period. In an illuminating discussion of the musical, literary, aesthetic, and theological aspects of the composers early cantatas, leading Bach scholars place the works in their historical and biographical context. 85 photos.
Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2007-10-16
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 1429932880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Author: Colleen Joan Magee Snyder
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 192
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Publisher: London : British Broadcasting Corporation
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 72
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