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J.S. Bach : a life in music
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ISBN: 0521870747 0521306833 0828314667 1107171792 0511278403 0511279000 0511320205 0511481861 128085023X 0511277202 0511277792 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Peter Williams approaches afresh the life and music of arguably the most studied of all composers, interpreting both Bach's life by deconstructing his original obituary in the light of more recent information and his music by evaluating his priorities and irrepressible creative energy. How, even though belonging to musical families on both his parents' sides, did he come to possess so bewitching a sense of rhythm and melody and a mastery of harmony that established nothing less than a norm in Western culture? In considering that the works of a composer are his biography, the book's title A Life in Music means both a life spent making music and one revealed in the music as we know it. A distinguished scholar and performer, Williams re-examines Bach's life as an orphan and family man, as an extraordinarily gifted composer and player and as an ambitious artist who never suffered fools gladly.


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J.S. Bach and his German contemporaries
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ISBN: 0252095391 9780252095399 9780252038136 0252038134 Year: 2013 Publisher: Urbana

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In this volume, Wolfgang Hirschmann proposes an ethnographic approach that contextualizes Bach's works, addressing the aesthetic paths he took as well as those he did not pursue. Steven Zohn's essay considers Telemann's contribution to the orchestral Ouverture genre, observering how Telemann's approach to integrating the national styles of his time was quite different from, but no less rich than, Bach's Andrew Talle compares settings and strategies of Vergnüte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust by Bach and Graupner. Alison Dunlop presents valuable primary research on Muffat, the most commonly cited keyboard music composer in Vienna during Bach's lifetime. Finally, Michael Maul sheds new light on the Scheibe-Birnbaum controversy, contextualizing the most famous critique of J. S. Bach's compositional style by discussing the other composers that Scheibe critiqued.

Bach perspectives. : Bach in America
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ISBN: 0252050819 9780252050817 9780252027888 0252027884 Year: 2003 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : University of Illinois Press,

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In Bach in America, volume 5 of Bach Perspectives, nine scholars track Johann Sebastian Bach's reputation in America from an artist of relative obscurity to a cultural mainstay whose music has spread to all parts of the population, inspired a wealth of scholarship, captivated listeners, and inspired musicians. More than a hundred years passed after Bach's death in 1750 before his music began to be known and appreciated in the United States. Barbara Owen surveys Bach's early reception in America and Matthew Dirst focuses on John Sullivan Dwight's role in advocating Bach's work. Michael Broyles considers the ways Bach's music came to be known in Boston and Mary J. Greer offers a counterpoint in her study of Bach's reception in New York. The volume continues with Hans-Joachim Schulze's essay linking the American descendants of August Reinhold Bach to J.S. Bach through a common sixteenth-century ancestor. Christoph Wolff focuses on Bach's descendants in America, particularly Friederica Sophia Bach, the daughter of Bach's eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann. Peter Wollny evaluates several manuscripts not included in Gerhard Herz's study of Bach Sources in America.


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Sei solo
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ISBN: 1498239420 9781498239424 1498239439 9781498239431 9781498239417 1498239412 Year: 2016 Publisher: Eugene

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One of the jewels in the crown of Johann Sebastian Bach's sacred music is its use of astonishingly subtle and complex allegorical and representational devices. But when similar devices appear in the context of one of Bach's untexted, secular, instrumental collections such as the Six Solos (sonatas and partitas) for violin, the question arises whether he might be intending to embed discernible theological significances there as well, thus infusing the secular with the sacred. Such designs would be reasonably plausible within Bach's musical, cultural, and religious context. Shute carefully investigates the extent to which musical features of the Six Solos that seem to invite theological parallels might indeed have been intended to do so. Although the precise extent of Bach's intentions cannot be ascertained with certainty, the degree of correlation among strong potential signifiers would seem to suggest that they, and many other features of the Six Solos, are best explained as the product of extensive theological-allegorical designs on Bach's part, like those evident in his texted vocal music [Publisher description].


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Bach
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ISBN: 1316532100 1316532348 1316488586 1316532585 1316533786 1316532828 1107139252 1316504867 1316530663 9781316533789 9781316488584 9781316532829 9781107139251 9781316533543 1316533549 9781316504864 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge

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J. S. Bach composed some of the best-loved and most moving music in Western culture. Surviving mostly in manuscript collections, his music also exists in special and unique publications that reveal much about his life and thoughts as a composer. In this book, Peter Williams, author of the acclaimed J. S. Bach: A Life in Music, revisits Bach's biography through the lens of his music. Reviewing all of Bach's music chronologically, Williams discusses the music collection by collection to reveal the development of Bach's interests and priorities. While a great deal has been written about the composer's vocal works, Williams gives the keyboard music its proper emphasis, revealing it as crucial to Bach's biography, as a young organist and a mature composer, as a performer in public and teacher in private, and as a profound thinker in the language of music.


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Bach's numbers
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ISBN: 1316355349 1316361748 1316362744 1316358348 1316364747 1316105067 1107088607 1107459699 1316349349 9781316364741 9781316105061 9781316358344 1316357341 9781316357347 9781107088603 9781107459694 9781316355343 9781316361740 9781316362747 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge

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In eighteenth-century Germany the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of its proportions still held philosophical, moral and devotional significance. Reproducing proportions close to the unity (1:1) across compositions could render them beautiful, perfect and even eternal. Using the principles of her groundbreaking theory of proportional parallelism and the latest source study research, Ruth Tatlow reveals how Bach used the number of bars to create numerical perfection across his published collections, and explains why he did so. The first part of the book illustrates the wide-ranging application of belief in the unity, showing how planning a well-proportioned structure was a normal compositional procedure in Bach's time. In the second part Tatlow presents practical demonstrations of this in Bach's works, illustrating the layers of proportion that appear within a movement, a work, between two works in a collection, across a collection and between collections.


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Let's calculate Bach : applying information theory and statistics to numbers in music
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ISBN: 3030637697 3030637689 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,


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Engaging Bach
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ISBN: 9780521651608 0521651603 9781139027908 9781139336413 113933641X 1139027905 9781139338158 1139338153 1107224438 1139333925 1280393815 9786613571731 1139337289 1139339737 1139341316 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Cambridge University Press

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More than any other part of Bach's output, his keyboard works conveyed the essence of his inimitable art to generations of admirers. The varied responses to this repertory - in scholarly and popular writing, public lectures, musical composition and transcription, performances and editions - ensured its place in the canon and broadened its creator's appeal. The early reception of Bach's keyboard music also continues to affect how we understand and value it, though we rarely recognize that historical continuity. Here, Matthew Dirst investigates how Bach's music intersects with cultural, social and music history, focusing on a repertory which is often overshadowed in scholarly and popular literature on Bach reception. Organized around the most productive ideas generated by Bach's keyboard works from his own day to the middle of the nineteenth century, this study shows how Bach's remarkable and long-lasting legacy took shape amid critical changes in European musical thought and practice.

The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
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ISBN: 0691006865 0691037396 9786612752209 1282752200 1400821657 1400812607 9781400821655 1400805104 9781400812608 9780691037394 9781282752207 6612752203 1400805090 Year: 1999 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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This new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies. By reference to contemporary music theory, to alternate notions of the meaning of "concerto," and to various eighteenth-century conventions of form and instrumentation, the book argues that the Brandenburg Concertos are better understood not as an arbitrary collection of unrelated examples of "pure" instrumental music, but rather as a carefully compiled and meaningfully organized set. It shows how Bach's concertos challenge (as opposed to reflect) existing musical and social hierarchies. Careful consideration of Lutheran theology and Bach's documented understanding of it reveals, however, that his music should not be understood to call for progressive political action. One important message of Lutheranism, and, in this interpretation, of Bach's concertos, is that in the next world, the heavenly one, the hierarchies of the present world will no longer be necessary. Bach's music more likely instructs its listeners how to think about and spiritually cope with contemporary hierarchies than how to act upon them. In this sense, contrary to currently accepted views, Bach's concertos share with his extensive output of vocal music for the Lutheran liturgy an essentially religious character.

The creative development of Johann Sebastian Bach. music to delight the spirit / Volume II, 1717-1750
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ISBN: 9780199696284 0199696284 9780198164401 0198164408 0198739273 0191503843 0191713783 0198739265 1280753420 0191513245 1306046378 0191761109 9780191503849 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Oxford University Press

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Jones gives an account of the individual works of J.S. Bach. Divided into two parts, this volume takes account of the remarkable advances in Bach scholarship. Each part deals with four categories of composition: large-scale keyboard works preludes, fantasias, and fugues; organ chorales; and cantatas.

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