[PDF] Bachs Major Vocal Works eBook

Author : Markus Rathey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300219512

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Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach’s major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this concise and accessible book provides an introduction to the music and cultural contexts of the composer’s most beloved masterpieces, including the Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, and St. John Passion. In addition to providing historical information, each chapter highlights significant aspects—such as the theology of love—of a particular piece. This penetrating volume is the first to treat the vocal works as a whole, showing how the compositions were embedded in their original performative context within the liturgy as well as discussing Bach’s musical style, from the detailed level of individual movements to the overarching aspects of each work. Published in the approach to Easter when many of these vocal works are performed, this outstanding volume will appeal to casual concertgoers and scholars alike.

Author : Markus Rathey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 030021720X

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"Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach's major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this concise and accessible book provides an introduction to the music and cultural contexts of the composer's most beloved masterpieces, including the Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, and St. John Passion. In addition to providing historical information, each chapter highlights significant aspects--such as the theology of love--of a particular piece. This penetrating volume is the first to treat the vocal works as a whole, showing how the compositions were embedded in their original performative context within the liturgy as well as discussing Bach's musical style, from the detailed level of individual movements to the overarching aspects of each work. Published in the approach to Easter when many of these vocal works are performed, this outstanding volume will appeal to casual concertgoers and scholars alike." -- Publisher's description

Author : Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2006-06
Category : Cantatas, Sacred
ISBN : 9781423427926

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Printable scanned images of more than 2500 pages of Bach's most significant choral works, including: Mass in B minor, St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, Christmas oratorio, Easter oratorio, and Cantatas 201-205.

Author : Melvin P. Unger
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810852983

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This book explores the dramatic thrust of each of Bach's four major works for choir and orchestra: Christmas Oratorio, St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, and Mass in B Minor. It guides the reader, movement by movement, through each work with an integrated presentation of commentary and text translation that pays particular attention to the interaction of text and music, suggesting reasons for Bach's musical choices.

Author : Mark A. Peters
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1498554962

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Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach’s vocal compositions—including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas—with particular attention to how such meaning arises out of the intentionality of Bach’s own compositional choices or (in Part IV in particular) how meaning is discovered, and created, through the reception of Bach’s vocal works. And the authors do not consider such compositional choices in a vacuum, but rather discuss Bach’s artistic intentions within the framework of broader cultural trends—social, historical, theological, musical, etc. Such questions of compositional choice and meaning frame the four primary approaches to Bach’s vocal music taken by the authors in this volume, as seen across the book’s four parts: Part I: How might the study of historical theology inform our understanding of Bach’s compositional choices in his music for the church (cantatas, Passions, masses)? Part II: How can we apply traditional analytical tools to understand better how Bach’s compositions were created and how they might have been heard by his contemporaries? Part III: What we can understand anew through the study of Bach’s self-borrowing (i.e., parody), which always changed the earlier meaning of a composition through changes in textual content, compositional characteristics, the work’s context within a larger composition, and often the performance context (from court to church, for example)? Part IV: What can the study of reception teach us about a work’s meaning(s) in Bach’s time, during the time of his immediate successors, and at various points since then (including our present)? The chapters in this volume thus reflect the breadth of current Bach research in its attention not only to source study and analysis, but also to meanings and contexts for understanding Bach’s compositions.

Author : J.S. Bach
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 1619115034

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Johann Sebastian Bach is recognized as one of the world's supremely great musicians. Known primarily as an organist and then only later recognized as a composer, Bach transformed the conventional structures of preludes and fugues. J.S. Bach for Bass will open up a whole new world of phrasing for the aspiring bassist. Selections include: Prelude #1 in C Major; Suite #1 in G Major; Suite #2 in D Minor; Suite #3 in C Major; Partita #1 in B Minor; Partita #2 in D; Partita #3 in E Major; Sonata #1 in G Minor; and Sonata #3 in C Major. This book is written in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio

Author : J.S. Bach
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 1619110156

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A masterful collection of 15 Bach Inventions transcribed for classic guitar solo performance. Each invention is preceded by an optional prelude. the original score is also shown for each invention. A companion recording is available online. A wonderful addition to the performance library of any guitarist!

Author : Christoph Wolff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674059269

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More than two centuries after his lifetime, J. S. Bach's work continues to set musical standards. Noted Bach scholar Christoph Wolff offers new perspectives on the composer's life and remarkable career.

Author : J.S. Bach
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2011-01-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 161065482X

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This edition contains 10 of J.S. Bach's finest compositions scored in notation and tablature. Works include: Two Part Invention in C Major; Gavotte, from the 3rd Lute Suite; Prelude in D Minor; Bouree in E Minor, from the 1st Lute Suite; and others. the CD is a stereo listening CD and on it each selection is played at both a slow and performance tempo. All songs from the book are on the CD.

Author : Robert Bancalari
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 1610655575

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These arrangements of many pieces by J.S. Bach make a great composer's works accessible to the mandolinist. Since the bulk of the music has been adapted from various suites, sonatas, and partitas, the authors provides an explanation of each dance form and other similar pieces. Includes: 'Bauree Angloise' from Partita in A Minor for solo flute; 'Marche' from Anna Magdalena Back Book; 'Fantasie' from Partita No. 3 in A Minor; and more. In notation and tablature. Includes a CD which contains 13 of the 26 solos.