The cantatas of J.S. Bach are among the best known and most frequently performed musical works of the baroque period. However, when they are played and heard today, questions arise that are difficult to answer because the works are being experienced outside their historical context. Such questions concern the role of the cantatas in Bach's compositional development, musical models for the works, and performance practice during the composer's lifetime. In this book, Bach scholars place the works in their historical and biographical context, guiding the reader through their literary, musical, aesthetic and theological features. This volume - the first of three which complement a recording project by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and incorporating the complete Bach cantatas - covers the sacred cantatas he wrote during the first 28 years of his life, before his move to Leipzig in 1723.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Dutch
Original Language: Dutch
About the Author
Christoph Wolff, professor of music and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, ranks as one of the world's most respected and productive Bach scholars, having published more than fifty articles and several books on the composer. Ton Koopman, internationally acclaimed as a harpsichordist, organist, and conductor, has published books on the theory and practice of Baroque music and on the harpsichord in Dutch art. Contributing authors include Andreas Glckner, Ulrich Leisinger, Daniel R. Melamed, Claus Oefner, Martin Petzoldt, Hans-Joachim Schulze, George B. Stauffer, and Peter Wollny.
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This review is from: The World of the Bach Cantatas: Johann Sebastian Bach's Early Sacred Cantatas (v. 1) (Hardcover)
This book is a must for lovers of the cantatas, but I hope it's not whining to say that we deserve much better. The subjects of the various essays, by various scholars, are all exactly the ones I have been hoping for--most notably the chapters "Bible, hymnbook and worship service" by M. Petzoldt, and "Choruses and Chorales" by D. Melamed, but the book as a whole reads very much like a conference proceedings volume rather than an introduction to the "world of the cantatas." Some individual chapters are excellently written (esp. C. Wolff's, but that should go without saying), but many are at the very least poorly translated. What we really need is A. Duerr's magisterial introduction (available at fairly low cost from amazon.de, for the reader of German) in English translation (though I would hope not by those who translated this volume!).
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a must for all lovers of bach cantatas,
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This review is from: The World of the Bach Cantatas: Johann Sebastian Bach's Early Sacred Cantatas (v. 1) (Hardcover)
this clear account of the early cantatas is a must for all lovers of Bach and his choral music. Written by acknowledged authorities in the field, this book complements Koopmans on going CD cycle of the cantatas but can be used with great benefit with other cycles as well. If you love the cantatas this is a must have book
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Johann Sebastian Bach has left a body of work that is unequaled in its musical diversity, compositional quality, and aesthetic standards. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
choir pupils, chorale verse, permutation fugue, closing chorale, early cantatas, verlanget mich, cantata cycle, court ensemble, chorale settings, church cantatas, rufe ich, sacred cantatas, chorale text, chorale melody, cantata texts, sacred vocal music, concerted music, free poetry, chorale tune, solo cantatas, court organist, choral movements, court orchestra, secular cantatas, church pieces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Herr Jesu, Johann Mattheson, New Church, Johann Ernst, North German, Bach's Weimar, Ernst August, Mein Herze, Wilhelm Ernst, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Prince Leopold, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Erdmann Neumeister, Gisela Agnes, Johann Kuhnau, Sunday of Advent, Georg Christian Eilmar, Der Herr, Der Himmel, Gottes Zeit, Salomon Franck, Johann Gottfried Walther, Maria Barbara New!
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choir pupils, chorale verse, permutation fugue, closing chorale, early cantatas, verlanget mich, cantata cycle, court ensemble, chorale settings, church cantatas, rufe ich, sacred cantatas, chorale text, chorale melody, cantata texts, sacred vocal music, concerted music, free poetry, chorale tune, solo cantatas, court organist, choral movements, court orchestra, secular cantatas, church pieces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Herr Jesu, Johann Mattheson, New Church, Johann Ernst, North German, Bach's Weimar, Ernst August, Mein Herze, Wilhelm Ernst, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Prince Leopold, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Erdmann Neumeister, Gisela Agnes, Johann Kuhnau, Sunday of Advent, Georg Christian Eilmar, Der Herr, Der Himmel, Gottes Zeit, Salomon Franck, Johann Gottfried Walther, Maria Barbara New!
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- Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph Wolff on 6 pages
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Vol. 1 by Philipp Spitta in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents, Revised Edition by Hans T. David in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Bach Compendium by Hans-Joachim Schulze in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Bach: A Biography by Charles Sanford Terry in Back Matter
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- My Only Comfort: Death, Deliverance, and Discipleship in the Music of Bach (Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies Series) by Calvin R. Stapert in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Bach (Master Musicians) by Malcolm Boyd in Back Matter
- Oxford Composer Companion: J.S. Bach by Malcolm Boyd on page 87
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