| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
738 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 697-719) and index. |
| Contents |
Approaching Bach. What do we know about Bach? ; The grand old men of Bach biography : Forkel, Spitta, Schweitzer ; Transmission of the works -- The stations of Bach's life. From matins singer to Hofkapellmeister (Eisenach ; Ohrdruf ; Lüneburg ; Arnstadt ; Mühlhausen ; Weimar ; Cöthen) ; Cantor at St. Thomas and city music director in Leipzig (The position and its new incumbent ; The early years in Leipzig ; The middle Leipzig period : "court composer") ; Director of the Collegium Musicum and composer of secular music (Aesthetic controversies, private initiatives ; The later Leipzig years : the universalist ; The Bach household) -- The vocal music. The early and Weimar cantatas ; The Leipzig cantatas ; The passions ; Secular cantatas and the Christmas oratorio ; The Magnificat and the masses ; The motets -- The instrumental works. The art of the toccata ; The organ chorales ; The Cöthen demonstration cycles : inventions and sinfonias, The well-tempered clavier, six solos for violin ; The concertos ; The sonatas and suites ; The late cycles (The Goldberg variations ; The art of fugue ; The musical offering) -- Horizons. Bach's art ; Bach as a Christian ; Rhetoric and symbolism ; Proportion and numerical relations in Bach's music ; Theological Bach research : between scholarship and faith-inspired learning. |
| Subject |
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Hargraves, John.
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| Added Title |
Bach. English
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| ISBN |
0151006482 |
| Standard No. |
9780151006489 |
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