Bach / edited by Yo Tomita.

Other author Tomita, Yo, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoFarnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2011.
Descriptionxxxvii, 574 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThe Baroque composers
Baroque composers. ^A1041461
Contents Part I. Life and context. Johann Christoph Bach (1671-1721), "organist und schul college in Ohrdruf", Johann Sebastian Bachs erster Lehrer / Hans-Joachim Schulze -- Johann Sebastian Bach als schuler der partikularschule zu St. Michaelis in Luneburg, oder Luneburg eine Pflegstatte kirchlicher music / Wilhelm C. Junghans -- The musician versus the grammarian: an early storm warning / Paul S. Minear -- In defense of J.A. Scheibe against J.S. Bach / George J. Buelow -- J.S. Bach: new light on his faith / Christoph Trautmann -- Motive and motif in the church music of Johann Sebastian Bach / Robin A. Leaver -- Part II. Source studies. Zum wandel des Bach-Bildes. Zu Friedrich Blumes Mainzer Vortag / Alfred Durr -- Antwort von Friedrich Blume / Friedrich Blume -- Personliches zur geschichte der jungeren Bach-Forschung ("a personal message concerning the history of recent Bach scholarship") / Arthur Mendel -- Yoshitake Kobayashi's article "On the chronology of the last phase of Bach's work - compositions and performances: 1736 to 1750" - an analysis with translated portions of the original text / Gerhard Herz -- Part III. Genre studies. Bach's chorale cantatas / Alfred Durr -- Neue "texte zur Leipziger kirchen-music" / Wolf Hobohm -- Der Picander-Jahrgang / Klaus Hafner -- Bach und der Picander-Jahrgang - eine erwiderung / William H. Scheide -- Picander, der textdichter von Bachs viertem Kantatenjahrgang. Ein neuer Hinweis / Klaus Hafner -- Eindeutigkeit und mehrdeutigkeit in Picanders Kantatenjahrgangs-Vorbemerkung und im Werkverzeichnis des Nekrologs auf Johann Sebastian Bach / William H. Scheide -- Traces of the pre-history of Bach's St John and St Matthew passions / Arthur Mendel -- "Et incarnates" and "crucifixus": the earliest and the latest settings of Bach's B-minor mass / Christoph Wolff -- Friedrich Smend's edition of the B-minor mass by J.S. Bach / Georg von Dadelsen -- Universality in Bach's B minor mass: a portrait of Bach in his final years / Yoshitake Kobayashi -- Zur parodiefrage in Bachs h-Moll-Messe: eine bestandsaufnahme / Alfred Durr -- The parody process in Bach's music: an old problem reconsidered / Has-Joachim Schulze -- Parody and theological consistency: notes on Bach's A-major mass / Robin A. Leaver -- Bach the progressive: observations on his later works / Robert L. Marshall -- Bach: Progressive or conservative and the authorship of the Goldberg aria / Frederick Neumann -- Postscript / Robert L. Marshall -- Psalm and the Well-Tempered Clavier II: revisiting the old question of Bach's source of inspiration / Yo Tomita -- Part IV. Performance practice. Performance practice of Bach's cantatas: original performance material; original rehearsals; original performance forces; original performance style; conclusions for modern performance / Alfred Durr -- Bach's chorus: a preliminary report / Joshua Rifkin -- Does "well-tempered" mean "equal-tempered"? / Rudolf Rasch -- Some performance problems of Bach's unaccompanied violin and cello works / Frederick Neumann.
Abstract The volume editor has chosen thirty-one published articles which, in his view, not only represent a broad spectrum of the scholarly discussions on Bach's life and works, but will also facilitate the on-going study of Bach's creative genius.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LanguageText in English and German.
LCCN 2010018689
ISBN9780754628910 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0754628914 (hardback : alk. paper)

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