Rethinking Bach /

"If Johann Sebastian Bach has loomed extra-large in the imagination of scholars, performers, and audiences since the late nineteenth century, this volume sets out to provocatively reshape that imagination from a multitude of present-day perspectives, both from within and outside of traditional...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Varwig, Bettina, 1978- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: (Still) talking about Bach / Bettina Varwig
  • Part I. Histories. Bach and material culture / Stephen Rose ; Rethinking 1829 / Ellen Exner ; Post/colonial Bach / Yvonne Liao
  • Part II. Bodies. Bach and the soprano voice / Wendy Heller ; Embodied invention : Bach at the keyboard / Bettina Varwig ; Rethinking affect / Isabella van Elferen
  • Part III. Meanings. Bach and theology / Jeremy Begbie ; Bach the humorist / David Yearsley ; Rethinking Bach codes / Daniel R. Melamed ; Bach's works and the listener's viewpoint / John Butt
  • Part IV. Currents. Bach's chorale pedagogy / Derek Remeš ; Rethinking editions : Mass, Missa, and monument culture / Joshua Rifkin ; Bach against modernity / Michael Marissen ; Bach anxiety : a meditation on the future of the past / Michael Markham.