The Cambridge companion to Bach / edited by John Butt.
Contributor(s): Butt, John [editor]
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BookSeries: Cambridge companions to music: Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©1997Description: xv, 326 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521587808 (paperback) ; 9780521587808 (paperback) .Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750DDC classification: 780.92 BAC | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 780.92 BAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00205741 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Cambridge Companion to Bach, first published in 1997, goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and composer. The book is divided into three parts. Part One is concerned with the historical context, the society, beliefs and the world-view of Bach's age. The second part discusses the music and Bach's compositional style, while Part Three considers Bach's influence and the performance and reception of his music through the succeeding generations. This Companion benefits from the insights and research of some of the most distinguished Bach scholars, and from it the reader will gain a notion of the diversity of current thought on this great composer.
Bibliography: (pages 294-305) and indexes.
The historical context: society, beliefs and world-view: The Bach family / Malcolm Boyd -- Bach and the domestic politics of electoral Saxony / Ulrich Siegele -- Music and Lutheranism / Robin A. Leaver -- Bach's metaphysics of music ; 'A mind unconscious that it is calculating'? Bach and the rationalist philosophy of Wolff, Leibniz and Spinoza / John Butt -- Profiles of the music: The early works and the heritage of the seventeenth century / Stephen A. Crist -- The mature vocal works and their theological and liturgical context / Robin A. Leaver -- The instrumental music / Werner Breig -- The keyboard works: Bach as teacher and virtuoso / Richard D.P. Jones -- Composition as arrangement and adaptation / Werner Breig -- Bachian invention and its mechanisms / Laurence Dreyfus -- Influence and reception: Bach as teacher and model / Stephen Daw -- Changing issues of performance practice / George B. Stauffer -- Bach reception: some concepts and parameters ; Reinterpreting Bach in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Martin Zenck.
"The Cambridge Companion to Bach goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late twentieth-century perspective on J.S. Bach the man and composer. Benefiting from the insights and research of some of the most distinguished Bach scholars, this Companion covers cultural, social and religious contexts, surveys and analyses Bach's compositional style, traces his influence, and considers the performance and reception of his music through the succeeding generations"-- Publisher.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part I The Historical Context: Society Beliefs and World-View
- 1 The Bach family
- 2 Johann Sebastian Bach in the context of domestic politics in Electoral
- 3 Music and Lutheranism
- 4 Bach's metaphysics of music
- 5 'A mind unconscious that it is calculating'? Bach and the rationalist philosophy of Wolff, Leibniz and Spinoza
- Part II Profiles of the Music
- 6 The early works and the heritage of the seventeenth century
- 7 The mature vocal works and their theological and liturgical context
- 8 The instrumental music
- 9 The keyboard works: Bach as teacher and virtuoso
- 10 Composition as arrangement and adaptation
- 11 Bachian invention and its mechanisms
- Part III Influence and Reception
- 12 Bach as teacher and model
- 13 Changing issues of performance practice
- 14 Bach reception: some concepts and parameters
- 15 Reinterpreting Bach in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries