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Cantatas for festive occasions
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ISBN: 1443825999 9781443825993 Year: 2010 Publisher: [Newcastle upon Tyne] : Cambridge Scholars,

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The cantatas of Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), spanning his middle and late life, were written in response to royal and civic commissions to celebrate dynastic events and to praise the deeds of famous men. Their festive nature is indicated in the titles: festival song, festival greeting, festival hymn, homage. Like a continuation of the 18th-century tradition of patronage, the more famous Meyerbeer became, the more his services were required by public authorities. Although a burden to him, a...


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The Italian cantata in Vienna : entertainment in the age of absolutism
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ISBN: 0253010349 9780253010346 1299924328 9781299924321 9780253010186 0253010187 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press,

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Lawrence Bennett provides a comprehensive study of the rich repertoire of accompanied vocal chamber music that entertained the imperial family in Vienna and their guests throughout the 17th and early 18th centuries. The cantata became a form of elite entertainment composed to amuse listeners during banquets or pay homage to members of the royal family during special occasions. Concentrating on Baroque cantatas composed in the Habsburg court, Bennett draws extensively on primary source material to explore the stylistic changes that occurred within the genre in the generations before Haydn an

Johann Sebastian Bach's early sacred cantatas
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ISBN: 0393041069 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Norton

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Die Kantaten von Johann Sebastian Bach mit ihren Texten
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ISBN: 3423044314 376184431X Year: 1985 Publisher: München Kassel Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag Bärenreiter-Verlag

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Guide pratique des cantates de Bach
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ISBN: 2221007492 9782221007495 Year: 1982 Publisher: Paris Laffont

The cantatas of J.S. Bach : with their librettos in German-English parallel text
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ISBN: 9786611155193 1281155195 0191541753 0191538183 1435609336 9780191541759 9780191538186 6611155198 0198167075 0199297762 9780199297764 9780198167075 9781281155191 9781435609334 9780191058134 0191058130 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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A work-by-work commentary on the Bach cantatas by the world's most famous Bach scholar, now available in English and in paperback for the first time. It includes all the cantata librettos in German-English parallel text. An indispensable reference book for anyone listening to, performing in, or studying any of the Bach cantatas. - ;This is the only English translation of this important book by the world's most distinguished Bach scholar. This work is widely regarded as the most authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the Bach cantatas. It begins with a historical survey of the seventeenth

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