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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521341051
ISBN-139780521341059
eBay Product ID (ePID)1181778
Product Key Features
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBach Studies
Publication Year1989
SubjectHistory & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Classical, General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMusic
AuthorDon O. Franklin
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight26.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN88-015961
Dewey Edition19
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal780/.92/4
Table Of ContentPart I. Magnificat, Cantata and Passion: 1. On the origin of Bach's Magnificat: a Lutheran composer's challenge Robert L. Marshall; 2. Expressivity in the accompanied recitatives of Bach's cantatas George J. Buelow; 3. Aria forms in the Cantatas from Bach's first Leipzig Jahrgang Stephen A. Criss; 4. The regulative and generative roles of verse in Bach's 'thematic' invention Paul Brainard; 5. The St John Passion: theology and musical stricture Eric T Chafe; Part II. Parody and genre: 6. Bach's parody technique and its frontiers Alfred Mann; 7. Three organ-trio transcriptions from the Bach circle: keys to a lost Bach chamber work Russell Stinson; 8. 'This fantasia... never had its like': on the enigma and chronology of Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903 George B. Stauffer; 9. French overture conventions in the hands of the young Bach and Handel Peter Williams; Part III. The Well-Tempered Clavier I and II: 10. The four conceptual stages of the Fugue in C Minor, WTC I Brick Siegele; 11. The genesis of the Prelude in C Major, BWV 870 James A. Brokaw II; 12. Reconstructing the Urpartitur for WTC II: a study of the "London autograph" (BL Add. MS 35021) Don O. Franklin; Part IV. Transmission and reception: Bach in the eighteenth century Ludwig Finscher; 13. Tradition as authority and provocation: Anton Weburn's confrontation with Johann Sebastian Bach Martin Zenck; 14. The human side of the American Bach sources Gerhard Herz.
SynopsisThis volume of essays reflects the increasing breadth and scope of Bach research. The fifteen essays by American and European scholars address a wide range of topics and issues: Magnificat, Cantata and Passion; Parody and Genre; The Well-Tempered Clavier; and Transmission and Reception., This volume of essays reflects the increasing breadth and scope of Bach research. The fifteen essays by American and European scholars address a wide range of topics and issues: Magnificat, Cantata, and Passion; Parody and Genre; The Well-Tempered Clavier; and Transmission and Reception. Many of the authors focus on works which due to the Bach chronology - can now be examined in a fresh light. Seen as a whole, the essays combine source - critical and analytic methods with historical and theological interpretation to consider problems of genesis and style, as well as questions of transmission and reception.