An Introduction To Bach Studies

Author : Daniel R. Melamed,Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998-04-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780198028550

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An Introduction to Bach Studies by Daniel R. Melamed,Michael Marissen Pdf

This volume is a guide to the resources and materials of Bach scholarship, both for the non specialist wondering where to begin in the enormous literature on J. S. Bach, and for the Bach specialist looking for a convenient and up to date survey of the field. It describes the tools of Bach research and how to use them, and suggests how to get started in Bach research by describing the principal areas of research and citing the essential literature on each piece and topic. The authors emphasize the issues that have engaged Bach scholars for generations, focusing on particularly important writings; on recent literature; on overviews, collections of essays and handbooks; and on writings in English. Subjects covered include bibliographic tools of Bach research and sources of literature; Bach's family; Bach biographies; places Bach lived and worked; Bach's teaching; the liturgy; Bach source studies and the transmission of his music; repertory and editions; genres and individual vocal and instrumental works; performance practice; the reception and analysis of Bach's music; and many others. The book also offers explanations of important and potentially confusing topics in Bach research, such as the organization of the annual cantata cycles, pitch standards, the history of the Berlin libraries, the structure of the critical commentary volumes in the Neue Bach Ausgabe, and so on. This book opens up the rich world of Bach scholarship to students, teachers, performers, and listeners.

Author : Daniel R. Melamed,Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195122312

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An Introduction to Bach Studies by Daniel R. Melamed,Michael Marissen Pdf

Subjects covered include bibliographic tools of Bach research and sources of literature; Bach's family; Bach biographies; places Bach lived and worked; Bach's teaching; the liturgy; Bach source studies and the transmission of his music; repertory and editions; genres and individual vocal and instrumental works; performance practice; the reception and analysis of Bach's music; and many others.

Author : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0199865469

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An Introduction to Bach Studies by Daniel R. Melamed Pdf

Author : Don O. Franklin,Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521470676

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Bach Studies 2 by Don O. Franklin,Daniel R. Melamed Pdf

This 1995 volume presents twelve essays by internationally distinguished Bach scholars, covering a broad range of issues in this field.

Author : Don O. Franklin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521088321

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Bach Studies by Don O. Franklin Pdf

This volume of essays reflects the breadth and scope of Bach research.

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190606954

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Bach & God by Michael Marissen Pdf

Bach & God explores the religious character of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging insights from detailed investigations of both words and music. Bach is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.

Author : Robin A Leaver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315452791

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The Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach by Robin A Leaver Pdf

The Ashgate Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach provides an indispensable introduction to the Bach research of the past thirty-fifty years. It is not a lexicon providing information on all the major aspects of Bach's life and work, such as the Oxford Composer Companion: J. S. Bach. Nor is it an entry-level research tool aimed at those making a beginning of such studies. The valuable essays presented here are designed for the next level of Bach research and are aimed at masters and doctoral students, as well as others interested in coming to terms with the current state of Bach research. Each author covers three aspects within their specific subject area; firstly, to describe the results of research over the past thirty-fifty years, concentrating on the most significant and controversial, such as: the debate over Smend's NBA edition of the B minor Mass; Blume's conclusions with regard to Bach's religion in the wake of the 'new' chronology; Rifkin's one-to-a-vocal-part interpretation; the rediscovery of the Berlin Singakademie manuscripts in Kiev; the discovery of hitherto unknown manuscripts and documents and the re-evaluation of previously known sources. Secondly, each author provides a critical analysis of current research being undertaken that is exploring new aspects, reinterpreting earlier assumptions, and/or opening-up new methodologies. For example, Martin W. B. Jarvis has suggested that Anna Magdalena Bach composed the cello suites and contributed to other works of her husband - another controversial hypothesis, whose newly proposed forensic methodology requires investigation. On the other hand, research into Bach's knowledge of the Lutheran chorale tradition is currently underway, which is likely to shed more light on the composer's choices and usage of this tradition. Thirdly, each author identifies areas that are still in need of investigation and research.

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190606978

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Bach & God by Michael Marissen Pdf

Bach & 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 : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 019534703X

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Hearing Bach's Passions by Daniel R. Melamed Pdf

Johann Sebastian Bach's two surviving passions--St. John and St. Matthew--are an essential part of the modern repertory, performed regularly both by professional ensembles and amateur groups. These large, complex pieces are well loved, but due to our distance from the original context in which they were performed, questions and problems emerge. Bach scholar Daniel Melamed examines the issues we encounter when we hear the passions performed today, and offers unique insight into Bach's passion settings. Rather than providing a movement-by-movement analysis, Melamed uses the Bach repertory to introduce readers to some of the intriguing issues in the study and performance of older music, and explores what it means to listen to this music today. For instance, Bach wrote the passions for a particular liturgical event at a specific time and place; we hear them hundreds of years later, often a world away and usually in concert performances. They were performed with vocal and instrumental forces deployed according to early 18th-century conceptions; we usually hear them now as the pinnacle of the choral/orchestral repertory, adapted to modern forces and conventions. In Bach's time, passion settings were revised, altered, and tampered with both by their composers and by other musicians who used them; today we tend to regard them as having fixed texts to be treated mith respect. Their music was sometimes recycled from other compositions or reused itself for other purposes; we have trouble imagining the familiar material of Bach's passion settings in any other guise. Melamed takes on these issues, exploring everything from the sources that transmit Bach's passion settings today to the issues surrounding performance practice (including the question of the size of Bach's ensemble). He delves into the passions as dramatic music, examines the problem of multiple versions of a work and the reconstruction of lost pieces, explores the other passions in Bach's performing repertory, and sifts through the puzzle of authorship. Highly accessible to the non-specialist, the book assumes no technical musical knowledge and does not rely on printed musical examples. Based on the most recent scholarship and using lucid prose, the book opens up the debates surrounding this repertory to music lovers, choral singers, church musicians, and students of Bach's music.

Author : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190490126

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Hearing Bach's Passions by Daniel R. Melamed Pdf

Daniel Melamed offers a study of Bach's passion settings seeking to familiarise readers with some of the intriguing issues in the study & performance of older music. He explores what it means to listen to this music today.

Author : Doris Bosworth Powers
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9780815321798

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach by Doris Bosworth Powers Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Annette Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521836296

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Studies by Annette Richards Pdf

A collection of the latest work by distinguished scholars on C. P. E. Bach.

Author : Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197669495

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Bach Against Modernity by Marissen Pdf

Many scholars and music lovers hold that J.S. Bach is a modern figure, as his music seems to speak directly to the aesthetic, spiritual, or emotional concerns of today's listeners. But, by eighteenth-century standards, Bach and his music in fact reflected and forcefully promoted a premodern world and life view. In Bach against Modernity, author Michael Marissen offers a new look at Bach that considers problems of inattentiveness to historical considerations in academic and popular writing about Bach's relation to the present. He also puts forward interpretive reassessments of key individual works by Bach and examines problems in modern comprehension of the partly archaic German texts that Bach set to music. Lastly, he explores Bach's music in relation to premodern versus enlightened attitudes toward Jews and Judaism and enquires into the theological character of Bach's secular instrumental music. Throughout, the book provides overlooked or misunderstood evidence of Bach's private engagement with religious and social issues that he also addressed in his public vocal compositions. Marissen ultimately argues that, while we are free to make use of Bach and his music in whatever ways we find fitting, we ought also to guard against miscasting Bach in our own ideological image and proclaiming the authenticity of that image, and hence its prestige value, in support of our own agendas.

Author : Yo Tomita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351574907

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Bach by Yo Tomita Pdf

For nearly two centuries Johann Sebastian Bach has been regarded as a cornerstone of Western musical culture. His music inspired subsequent generations of composers and philosophers alike, and continues to capture our imaginations in many ways. Bach studies is part of this picture, often seen as providing excellent examples of musicological scholarship. The volume editor has chosen thirty-one published articles which, in his view, not only represent a broad spectrum of the scholarly discussions on Bach's life and works, but will also facilitate the on-going study of Bach's creative genius. The articles have been selected to ensure that this volume will be considered useful for not only those students who are currently engaging in Bach studies at universities but also for more seasoned Bach scholars as they consider the future direction of Bach studies.

Author : Andreas Werckmeister
Publisher : Contextual Bach Studies
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Composition (Music)
ISBN : 1498566340

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Andreas Werckmeister's Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse by Andreas Werckmeister Pdf

This book provides extensive commentary and an English translation of 17th-century German music theorist Andreas Werckmeister's final treatise, the Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse. Topics discussed include theological reflections on music, numerology in musical intervals, music notation and solmization, and tunings.