This volume brings together essays on J. S. Bach and members of his family by a distinguished group of scholars. The essays address Bach's compositions, his knowledge of the musical past, his study of contemporaries, and the cultivation of his own music by later generations. The studies draw on source-critical scholarship, musical analysis, religious and social context, performance practice, and reception history--a broad range of techniques and issues in modern Bach scholarship.
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'Daniel Melamed has brought together essays by 12 internationally distinguished Bach scholars. Established authorities and younger contributors are represented in a rich and readable compilation of some of the latest findings in the enormous field of Bach scholarship. It will be invaluable to students, teachers, those preparing performances of the works discussed, and those who simply wish to know more about Bach.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
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This volume brings together essays on J. S. Bach and members of his family by a distinguished group of scholars. The essays address Bach's compositions, his knowledge of the musical past, his study of contemporaries, and the cultivation of his own music by later generations. The studies draw on source-critical scholarship, musical analysis, religious and social context, performance practice, and reception history SH a broad range of techniques and issues in modern Bach scholarship.
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In 1969, the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut in Gottingen acquired a collection containing approximately ninety manuscripts from the music dealer Hans Schneider in Tutzing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
untransposed continuo parts, solo motto, untransposed parts, dual accompaniment, word ricercar, preludial function, imitative ricercar, continuo group, obbligato organ, second ritornello, third ritornello, estate catalogue, mature concertos, opening ritornello, imitative type, rhetorical analogy, ostinato theme, ritornello form, canonic variations, obbligato parts, continuo line, oratorio passion, learned counterpoint, concerted music, chorale settings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Matthew Passion, Hans-Joachim Schulze, Christoph Wolff, Harmonische Seelenlust, Neue Kirche, Carl Philipp Emanuel, New York, John Passion, Leipziger Neukirche, Albinoni's Opus, Die Musikpflege, Michael Marissen, Leonhard Scholz, Musikgeschichte Leipzigs, Three-Part Fugue, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Gottfried Walther, Georg Philipp Telemann, Joshua Rifkin, Good Friday, New Grove, Werner Neumann, Frederick the Great, Klaus Hofmann New!
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In 1969, the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut in Gottingen acquired a collection containing approximately ninety manuscripts from the music dealer Hans Schneider in Tutzing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
untransposed continuo parts, solo motto, untransposed parts, dual accompaniment, word ricercar, preludial function, imitative ricercar, continuo group, obbligato organ, second ritornello, third ritornello, estate catalogue, mature concertos, opening ritornello, imitative type, rhetorical analogy, ostinato theme, ritornello form, canonic variations, obbligato parts, continuo line, oratorio passion, learned counterpoint, concerted music, chorale settings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Matthew Passion, Hans-Joachim Schulze, Christoph Wolff, Harmonische Seelenlust, Neue Kirche, Carl Philipp Emanuel, New York, John Passion, Leipziger Neukirche, Albinoni's Opus, Die Musikpflege, Michael Marissen, Leonhard Scholz, Musikgeschichte Leipzigs, Three-Part Fugue, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Gottfried Walther, Georg Philipp Telemann, Joshua Rifkin, Good Friday, New Grove, Werner Neumann, Frederick the Great, Klaus Hofmann New!
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- Johann Sebastian Bach the Learned Musici by Christoph Wolff on 12 pages
- Goldberg Variations: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics) by Ralph Kirkpatrick on 5 pages
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Vol. 1 by Philipp Spitta on 5 pages
- Johann Sebastian Bach by Paul Lang on page 120, and page 192
- The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents, Revised Edition by Hans T. David in Front Matter
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- Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism) by David Yearsley on 7 pages
- J.S. Bach's Great Eighteen Organ Chorales by Russell Stinson in Back Matter
- 18th-Century Keyboard Music (Routledge Studies in Musical Genre) by Robert Marshall on page 121
- Bach (Master Musicians) by Malcolm Boyd in Back Matter
- An Introduction to Bach Studies by Daniel R. Melamed in Back Flap
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