[PDF] Bach God eBook

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190606967

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Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he also shows how Bach's pitches, rhythms, and tone colors can make contributions to a work's plausible meanings that go beyond setting texts in an aesthetically satisfying manner. In some of Bach's vocal repertory, the music puts a "spin" on the words in a way that turns out to be explainable as orthodox Lutheran in its orientation. In a few of Bach's vocal works, his otherwise puzzlingly fierce musical settings serve to underscore now unrecognized or unacknowledged verbal polemics, most unsettlingly so in the case of his church cantatas that express contempt for Jews and Judaism. Finally, even Bach's secular instrumental music, particularly the late collections of "abstract" learned counterpoint, can powerfully project certain elements of traditional Lutheran theology. Bach's music is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.

Author : Wilfrid Mellers
Publisher : Travis and Emery Music Bookshop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781904331872

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Wilfrid Mellers is a composer, musician and author. Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. This is his classic book on Bach.

Author : Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0310208068

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This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.

Author : Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0393242080

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"A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work." —Nature How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind? In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent discoveries from biology and computer science to show, step by step, how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. A crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doing things not based in genetic instinct. Competition among memes produced thinking tools powerful enough that our minds don’t just perceive and react, they create and comprehend. An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers and scientists, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain all those curious about how the mind works.

Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher : Penguin Group(CA)
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art and music
ISBN : 9780140289206

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'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to impart his original and personal view on the core mystery of human existence - our intangible sensation of 'I'-ness - Hofstadter defines the playful yet seemingly paradoxical notion of 'strange loop', and explicates this idea using analogies from many disciplines.

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190606959

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Bach & God explores the religious character of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging insights from detailed investigations of both words and music. Bach is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.

Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199248841

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Now available in paperback, this landmark biography was first published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach's death. Written by a leading Bach scholar, this book presents a new picture of the composer. Christoph Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between Bach's life and his music, showing how the composer's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher.

Author : John Eliot Gardiner
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9780713996623

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Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the unfathomable composers in the history of music. This book explains the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects - and what it can tell us about Bach the man.

Author : Martin Geck
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780151006489

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Author : Hans T David
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 1999-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393319569

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'The New Bach Reader' contains a collection of documents intended to bring the composer to life.