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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| 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 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Constraints of history on interpretation. Bach against modernity ; Bach's handwritten entries in his Bible
- Part II. Brief commentaries. Fractal gavottes and the ephemeral world in Bach's Cantata 64 ; Time and eternities in Bach's Cantata 23 ; Bach's Christmas oratorio and a blessed end ; Bach and art and mammon
- Part III. Texts. Historically informed renderings of the librettos from Bach's cantatas / (with coauthor Daniel R. Melamed)
- Part IV. Jews and Judaism ; On the Jews and their so-called lies in the Fourth gospel and Bach's St. John passion ; Bach and sons in the Jewish salon culture of nineteenth-century Berlin
- Part V. Theological character of secular instrumental music ; Bach's sacred Brandenburg concertos ; The serious nature of the quodlibet in Bach's Goldberg variations.