Bach The Mass In B Minor

Author : Yo Tomita,Robin A. Leaver,Jan Smaczny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107469907

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Exploring Bach's B-minor Mass by Yo Tomita,Robin A. Leaver,Jan Smaczny Pdf

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.

Author : John Butt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991-06-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521387167

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Bach: Mass in B Minor by John Butt Pdf

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.

Author : George B. Stauffer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300099665

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Bach, the Mass in B Minor by George B. Stauffer Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190881054

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Listening to Bach by Daniel R. Melamed Pdf

This volume encourages eighteenth-century ways of listening to J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio. It explores the concept of musical style, suggests ways to listen to works created by the re-use of music for new words, and shows how modern performances are stamped with audible consequences of our place in the twenty-first century

Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199248842

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Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph Wolff Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel R. Melamed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190881061

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Listening to Bach by Daniel R. Melamed Pdf

Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can hear. Listening to Bach explores musical style as it was understood in the early eighteenth century. It encourages ways of listening that take eighteenth-century musical sensibilities into account and that recognize our place as inheritors of a long tradition of performance and interpretation. Daniel R. Melamed shows how to recognize old and new styles in sacred music of Bach's time, and how movements in these styles are constructed. This opens the possibility of listening to the Mass in B Minor as Bach's demonstration of the possibilities of contrasting, combining, and reconciling old and new styles. It also shows how to listen for elements that would have been heard as most significant in the early eighteenth century, including markers of sleep arias, love duets, secular choral arias, and other movement types. This offers a musical starting point for listening for the ways Bach put these types to use in the Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio. The book also offers ways to listen to and think about works created by parody, the re-use of music for new words and a new purpose, like almost all of the Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio. And it shows that modern performances of these works are stamped with audible consequences of our place in the twenty-first century. The ideological choices we make in performing the Mass and Oratorio, part of the legacy of their performance and interpretation, affect the way the work is understood and heard today. All these topics are illustrated with copious audio examples on a companion Web site, offering new ways of listening to some of Bach's greatest music.

Author : Yo Tomita,Robin A. Leaver,Jan Smaczny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107007901

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Exploring Bach's B-minor Mass by Yo Tomita,Robin A. Leaver,Jan Smaczny Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Helman
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457465795

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Five Trios from Bach's "Mass in B Minor" by Michael Helman Pdf

Noted composer/arranger Michael Helman has taken five settings from the magnificent Mass in B Minor by J.S. Bach and arranged them as organ trios. This collection will surely find favor among organists, and will make a great addition to training new organists in this form. Cleanly printed and with little editing, this set is a must! Titles: * Agnus Dei * Et in Spiritum Sanctum * Et in Unum Dominum * Qui Sedes * Qui Tollis

Author : John Eliot Gardiner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781846147210

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Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner Pdf

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents' house, where it hung for safety during the Second World War. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer's greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime's immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, which explains in wonderful detail 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. Gardiner's background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. This has entailed piecing together the few biographical shards, scrutinising the music, and watching for those instances when Bach's personality seems to penetrate the fabric of his notation. Gardiner's aim is 'to give the reader a sense of inhabiting the same experiences and sensations that Bach might have had in the act of music-making. This, I try to show, can help us arrive at a more human likeness discernible in the closely related processes of composing and performing his music.' It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach's works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists. SIR JOHN ELIOT GARDINER is one of the world's leading conductors, not only of Baroque music but across the whole repertoire. He founded the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, the English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. He has conducted most of the world's great orchestras and in many of the leading opera houses. He lives and farms in Dorset.

Author : Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300191363

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The Tchaikovsky Papers by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky Pdf

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

Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393651799

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Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work by Christoph Wolff Pdf

A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art. Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms; he was notoriously reluctant to write about his life and work. Instead, he methodically organized certain pieces into carefully designed collections. These benchmark works, all of them without parallel or equivalent, produced a steady stream of transformative ideas that stand as paradigms of Bach’s musical art. In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize–finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff takes his cue from his famous subject. Wolff delves deeply into the composer’s own rich selection of collected music, cutting across conventional boundaries of era, genre, and instrument. Emerging from a complex and massive oeuvre, Bach’s Musical Universe is a focused discussion of a meaningful selection of compositions—from the famous Well-Tempered Clavier, violin and cello solos, and Brandenburg Concertos to the St. Matthew Passion, Art of Fugue, and B-minor Mass. Unlike any study undertaken before, this book details Bach’s creative process across the various instrumental and vocal genres. This array of compositions illustrates the depth and variety at the essence of the composer’s musical art, as well as his unique approach to composition as a process of imaginative research into the innate potential of his chosen material. Tracing Bach’s evolution as a composer, Wolff compellingly illuminates the ideals and legacy of this giant of classical music in a new, refreshing light for everyone, from the amateur to the virtuoso.

Author : Michael Maul
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783271696

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Bach's Famous Choir by Michael Maul Pdf

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the cantors of the St. Thomas School and Church in Leipzig could be counted among the most significant German composers of their times. But what attracted these artists - from Seth Calvisius to J.S. Bach to Johann Adam Hiller - to the music school and choir and inspired them to explore new repertoire of the highest standing? And how did the cantors influence the musical profile of the school - a profile that often became a bone of contention between school and city hall? The success of the St. Thomas School was not a foregone conclusion; its history is replete with challenges and setbacks as well as triumphs. The school was caught between the conflicting interests of enthusiastic mayors and townspeople, who wanted to showcase the city's musical culture, and opposing parties, including jealous rectors and elitist sponsors, who argued for the traditional subordination of the cantorate to the school system. Drawing on many new, recently discovered sources, Michael Maul explores the phenomenon of the St Thomas School. He shows how cantors, local luminaries and municipal politicians overcame the School's detractors to make it a remarkable success, with a world-famous choir. Illuminating the social and political history of the cantorate and the musical life of an important German city, the book will be of interest to scholars of Baroque music and J.S. Bach, cultural historians, choral directors, and musicologists and performers studying historical performance practice. MICHAEL MAUL is Senior Scholar at the Bach-Archiv Leipzig and lecturer in musicology at the universities of Leipzig/Halle. He is also the artistic director of the annual Leipzig Bach Festival.

Author : Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486314440

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Mass in B Minor in Full Score by Johann Sebastian Bach Pdf

The crowning glory of Bach's lifework in the field of sacred music and a universal statement of Christian faith, reprinted from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Includes translation of text.

Author : Helmuth Rilling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008689353

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Johann Sebastian Bach's B-minor Mass by Helmuth Rilling Pdf

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 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.