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Einführung in Bachs h-moll-Messe : BWV 232
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ISBN: 3761804466 9783761804469 Year: 1974 Publisher: Kassel ; Basel ; Tours ; London : Bärenreiter,


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The Spirituality of Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Bach's Mass in B Minor, and Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time
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ISBN: 0773411704 9780773411708 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lewiston Edwin Mellen Press

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This book is based around reports from people who have listened to certain pieces of sacred music (that is, pieces with a liturgical text or biblical allusions) and have said that hearing the music is itself an encounter with the divine. While relating to the music, these people find that relating to the music is a relation to God. The music as such becomes inaudible, and disappears into an encounter in which they address and are addressed by God, or the Risen Christ, or the Eternal Infinite. The book's project is to elaborate on these reports, first by dwelling on the meaning of "relation" th

Bach, Mass in B minor
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ISBN: 0521387167 0521382807 1139166379 9781139166379 9780521382809 9780521387163 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The Mass in B Minor is arguably Bach's greatest single work. In this short guide John Butt considers the work from many angles offering the reader basic information in a concise and accessible form. The Mass in B Minor is fraught with difficulties regarding its origin, and ambiguities concerning its function. John Butt looks again at the historical sources and provides an up-to-date summary of existing research and opinions together with new insights of his own. He gives a vivid account of the work's genesis, its historical context, and its reception by later generations. One chapter considers the work movement by movement providing the text in both Latin and English. The final group of chapters on the music itself suggests some new approaches to the work - its forms, style and overall structure - which are both critically and historically based. This is an informative and lucid guide, valuable for student and music lover alike.

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