| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 286 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""ONE THE HERMENEUTIC MATRIX""; ""TWO THE LUTHERAN METAPHYSICAL TRADITION IN MUSIC AND MUSIC THEORY""; ""THREE CANTATA 21, ICH HATTE VIEL BEKÜMMERNIS""; ""FOUR MODAL QUESTIONS""; ""FIVE BACH'S REFLECTION ON THE PAST: MODAL CHORALES IN CANTATA DESIGNS""; ""SIX TWO CHORALE CANTATAS""; ""SEVEN CANTATA 77: THE THEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND""; ""EIGHT DU SOLLT GOTT, DEINEN HERREN, LIEBEN: AN ANALYSIS OF CANTATA 77""; ""NINE CANTATA 60: O EWIGKEIT, DU DONNERWORT""; ""Notes"" |
| Summary |
Bach's cantatas are among the highest achievements of Western musical art, yet studies of the individual cantatas that are both illuminating and detailed are few. In this book, noted Bach expert Eric Chafe combines theological, historical, analytical, and interpretive approaches to the cantatas to offer readers and listeners alike the richest possible experience of these works. A respected theorist of seventeenth-century music, Chafe is sensitive to the composer's intentions and to the enduring and universal qualities of the music itself. Concentrating on a small number of representative canta |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Cantatas.
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Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 -- Harmony
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Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 -- Religion
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| SUBJECT |
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 fast |
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Cantatas (Bach, Johann Sebastian) fast |
| Subject |
Cantatas, Sacred -- Analysis, appreciation
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Piano-Vocal-Guitar.
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Cantatas, Sacred -- Analysis, appreciation
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Harmony
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Religion
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98015109 |
| ISBN |
9780198028291 |
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0198028296 |
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1423761642 |
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9781423761648 |
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9780195347555 |
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0195347552 |
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