Bach against modernity /
In Bach against Modernity, author Michael Marissen contests the common perception that J.S. Bach is a modern figure and instead suggests that, by eighteenth-century standards, Bach and his music in fact reflected and forcefully promoted a premodern world and life view. He provides overlooked or misu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English German |
| Language Notes: | Chiefly in English, with some passages in German. |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In Bach against Modernity, author Michael Marissen contests the common perception that J.S. Bach is a modern figure and instead suggests that, by eighteenth-century standards, Bach and his music in fact reflected and forcefully promoted a premodern world and life view. He provides overlooked or misunderstood evidence of Bach's private engagement with religious and social issues that the composer also addressed in his public vocal compositions, and exposes intellectual and ethical problems with prevalent anachronistic views of Bach. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 184 pages) : illustrations, music, facsimiles. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780197669501 0197669506 9780197669525 0197669522 9780197669518 0197669514 |