Description
| Product ID: | 9780190606954 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Bach & God |
| Authors: | Author: Michael Marissen |
| Page Count: | 282 |
| Subjects: | Art music, orchestral and formal music, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750), Composers and songwriters, Christianity, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Christianity |
| Description: | Bach & God explores the religious character of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging insights from detailed investigations of both words and music. Bach is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn. Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach''s vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he also shows how Bach''s pitches, rhythms, and tone colors can make contributions to a work''s plausible meanings that go beyond setting texts in an aesthetically satisfying manner. In some of Bach''s vocal repertory, the music puts a "spin " on the words in a way that turns out to be explainable as orthodox Lutheran in its orientation. In a few of Bach''s vocal works, his otherwise puzzlingly fierce musical settings serve to underscore now unrecognized or unacknowledged verbal polemics, most unsettlingly so in the case of his church cantatas that express contempt for Jews and Judaism. Finally, even Bach''s secular instrumental music, particularly the late collections of "abstract " learned counterpoint, can powerfully project certain elements of traditional Lutheran theology. Bach''s music is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-06-16 |
