Bach's World
The author achieves a dual purpose in this volume: "To portray the mind of the master, his peculiarly anachronistic culture in an epoch of change," and "to trace Bach's application of venerable philosophies—musical as well as theological—to a musical equipment technically so much...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington,
Indiana University Press
1969
[1968] |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009598315806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : A world without change : Luther to Bach
- Nuture of the spiritual man
- Early years (1684-1703)
- Theology in the classroom
- A Lutheran sense of history
- Music in the schools
- The education of an organist
- Growth of a master of music
- Beginning a music career (1703-1706)
- Bach and Buxtehude
- Ornamentation
- The organ
- Bach in Mühlhausen : encounter with pietism
- The Weimar years (1708-1717)
- Music speculation : Kircher and Werckmeister
- Bach in Köthen (1717-1723)
- Worldly music of the spirit
- Compositions for the keyboard
- Call to Leipzig
- Bach's liturgical art work
- Fulfillment of Lutheran reform
- The chorale
- The contata
- The passions and oratorios
- The culmination of a dying age
- Signs of change
- Enlightenment darkens Bach's horizon
- Wolffian philosophy
- Conflict with an "enlightened" rector
- Musical discipline : And act of worship
- Epilogue.
