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Bach Perspectives: VOL. 5: Bach in America [Hardcover]

Stephen A. Crist (Author)

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Publication Date: December 17, 2002

In "Bach in America", volume 5 of "Bach Perspectives", nine scholars track Johann Sebastian Bach's reputation in America from an artist of relative obscurity to a cultural mainstay whose music has spread to all parts of the population, inspired a wealth of scholarship, captivated listeners, and inspired musicians. More than a hundred years passed after Bach's death in 1750 before his music began to be known and appreciated in the United States. Barbara Owen surveys Bach's early reception in America and Matthew Dirst focuses on John Sullivan Dwight's role in advocating Bach's work. Michael Broyles considers the ways Bach's music came to be known in Boston and Mary J. Greer offers a counterpoint in her study of Bach's reception in New York. The volume continues with Hans-Joachim Schulze's essay linking the American descendants of August Reinhold Bach to J. S. Bach through a common sixteenth-century ancestor. Christoph Wolff focuses on Bach's descendants in America, particularly Friederica Sophia Bach, the daughter of Bach's eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann. Peter Wollny evaluates several manuscripts not included in Gerhard Herz's study of Bach Sources in America. "Bach in America" concludes with examinations of Bach's considerable influence on American composers. Carol K. Baron compares the music of Bach and Charles Ives and Stephen A. Crist measures Bach's influence on the jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck.

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Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (December 17, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252027884
ISBN-13: 978-0252027888
Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.9 x 1 inches
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The music of Johann Sebastian Bach became known in America much later than that of his contemporary, George Frideric Handel, or that of his sons and other relatives. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
principal thematic section, elementary rhythm, thirty minutes music, lasse dich nicht, chromatic fantasy, orchestral transcriptions, historical performance practice, organ sonata, chorale settings, keyboard concertos, sacred cantatas, soprano aria, chorale preludes

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New York, Theodore Thomas, Dave Brubeck, Matthew Passion, Johann Sebastian Bach, Oratorio Society, Charles Ives, Brooklyn Philharmonic, United States, Leopold Damrosch, Philharmonic Society, William Mason, Christmas Oratorio, Music Hall, New England, Bach Singers, Yale University, Walter Damrosch, Well-Tempered Clavier, Heinrich Esser, Frank Damrosch, Robert Franz, Symphony Society, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Derry Music Company

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This book cites 53 books:

Johann Sebastian Bach the Learned Musici by Christoph Wolff on 6 pages
Hundred Years of Music in America by William Smythe Babcock Mathews on 4 pages
Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue (Kalmus Edition) by Johann Sebastian Bach on page 62, page 71, and page 72
Bach Sources in America by Gerhard Herz in Front Matter, page 6, and page 131
The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents by Christoph Wolff in Front Matter, and Back Matter

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