Analyzing Bach Cantatas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Analyzing Bach Cantatas write by Eric Chafe. This book was released on 2003-03-27. Analyzing Bach Cantatas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 cantatas, mostly from the Leipzig cycles of 1723-24 and 1724-25, and in particular on Cantata 77, Chafe shows how Bach strove to mirror both the dogma and the mystery of religious experience in musical allegory. Analyzing Bach Cantatas offers valuable information on the theological relevance of the structure of the liturgical year for the design and content of these works, as well as a survey of the theories of modality that inform Bach's compositional style. Chafe demonstrates that, while Bach certainly employed "pictorialism" and word-painting in his compositions, his method of writing music was a more complex amalgam of theological concepts and music theory. Regarding the cantatas as musical allegories that reflect the fundamental tenets of Lutheran theology as established during Bach's lifetime, Chafe synthesizes a number of key musical and theological ideas to illuminate the essential character of these great works. This unique and insightful book offers an essential methodology for understanding one of the central bodies of work in the Western musical canon. It will prove indispensable for all students and scholars of Bach's work, musicology, and theological studies.
Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts
Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts write by Melvin P. Unger. This book was released on 1996-04-16. Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The German church cantata of the eighteenth century was the culmination of a long tradition of Lutheran "sermon music" that used the proclamation, amplification, and interpretation of scripture to teach and persuade the listener. Bach's cantatas also served this didactic purpose and typically incorporate numerous allusions to scriptural passages or themes in their librettos. Unfortunately, many of these passages remain obscure to the twentieth-century musician because they demand a much closer familiarity with the Bible than is common today. The Handbook to Bach's Sacred Cantata Texts identifies scriptural references for the wording, imagery, and themes that Bach's listeners would have known. In addition, the religious or literary theme of each text is summarized within the specific context of the cantata as a whole. With interlinear translations and a full complement of indexes.
The Cantatas of J.S. Bach
The Cantatas of J.S. Bach - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cantatas of J.S. Bach write by Alfred Dürr. This book was released on 2005. The Cantatas of J.S. Bach available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the only English translation of this important book by the world's most distinguished Bach scholar.
The Complete Church and Secular Cantatas
The Complete Church and Secular Cantatas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complete Church and Secular Cantatas write by Johann Sebastian Bach. This book was released on 2000. The Complete Church and Secular Cantatas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume contains parallel texts and translations of all Bach's church and secular cantatas that have come down to us complete. The volume also includes a short glossary of geographical and mythological names, a list of dedicatees of the secular cantatas, a list of the poets with their dates, and an introduction to the cantatas by Martin Neary, formerly organist of Winchester Cathedral and Westminster Abbey.
Bach's Operas of the Soul
Bach's Operas of the Soul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bach's Operas of the Soul write by Mark Ringer. This book was released on 2021-04-15. Bach's Operas of the Soul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bach’s Operas of the Soul is the first introduction to Bach’s sacred cantatas for the general music lover. In clear and accessible language, Mark Ringer examines this vast output of masterpieces as the great musical dramatic creations that they. Bach’s sacred cantatas represent an almost superhuman artistic and spiritual achievement, arguably the richest investment by a great composer within a single genre. But outside of a handful of pieces, they remain a closed book to a majority of serious listeners already familiar with Bach’s large-scale religious works. Nevertheless, the same musical-dramatic genius of Bach’s Passions is fully evident in virtually all of the composer's sacred cantatas. Ringer approaches the sacred cantatas as sermons in musical-dramatic form, un-staged operas, planned for each occasion of the church year. Bach’s era relished dramatic contrast, and his use of the human voice offers a constantly changing pallet of vocal colors. The singers play ‘roles’ throughout the cantatas from penitent sinner, to ardent believer, to Christ himself. This book is accompanied by online audio tracks of select Bach canatatas from the Naxos music library. It will be of use to readers interested in opera and vocal music who have already come to love Bach’s Passions and who want to familiarize themselves with this wide array of masterpieces.
