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Bach / Malcolm Boyd.

By: Boyd, Malcolm [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Master musicians series: Publisher: London :. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., [1983]Copyright date: ©1983Description: xiv, 290 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music, portraits ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0460044664 .Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 | Composers -- Germany -- BiographyDDC classification: 780.92
Contents:
Background and early years (1685-1703) -- Arnstadt, Muhlhausen (1703-8) -- Weimar (1708-17) -- Organ music -- Cothen (1717-23) -- Orchestral, instrumental and keyboard music -- Leipzig (1723-30) -- Music for the Leipzig liturgy -- Leipzig (1730-41) -- Parodies and publications -- Leipzig (1742-50) -- Canons and counterpoints -- The Bach heritage -- A note on numerology.
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Bibliography: (pages 264-267) and index.

Background and early years (1685-1703) -- Arnstadt, Muhlhausen (1703-8) -- Weimar (1708-17) -- Organ music -- Cothen (1717-23) -- Orchestral, instrumental and keyboard music -- Leipzig (1723-30) -- Music for the Leipzig liturgy -- Leipzig (1730-41) -- Parodies and publications -- Leipzig (1742-50) -- Canons and counterpoints -- The Bach heritage -- A note on numerology.

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Forty pages longer than its predecessor, this edition of a standard work on J.S. Bach, first published in England in 1983, includes information obtained from Eastern European sources inaccessible to scholars a decade ago. In some cases, whole chapters have been recast, and Bach scholar Boyd (The Oxford Composer's Companion: Johann Sebastian Bach) embraces the current emphasis in Bach scholarship on the interplay between Bach's social setting and his music. This 250th-anniversary year of Bach's death is producing many Bach works, including Christoph Wolff"s singular Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (LJ 3/15/00). Boyd's work is authoritative and provides commentary on a wide body of Bach scholarship. This edition supersedes the other editions, though libraries owning the 1997 American second edition may cringe at having to replace it so soon.DBonnie Jo Dopp, Univ. of Maryland Libs. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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