Bach & God

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvMichael Marissen,Swarthmore College) Marissen, Michael (Professor of Music, Emeritus, Professor of Music, Emeritus

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-06-16
Mått145 x 211 x 27 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor282
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190606954

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Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur
Biblar inom Filosofi och religion
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Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Michael Marissen is Daniel Underhill Professor Emeritus of Music at Swarthmore College, where he taught from 1989 to 2014. He has also been a visiting professor on the graduate faculties at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (Princeton, 1995), Lutheranism, anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion (Oxford, 1998), An Introduction to Bach Studies (co-author Daniel Melamed; Oxford, 1998), Bach's Oratorios (Oxford, 2008), Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah (Yale, 2014), and essays in Lutheran Quarterly, Harvard Theological Review, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times.

Preface 000Credits 000Acknowledgments 000Introduction 000Part I: Basic Lutheranism in Cantatas1. "On the Musically Theological" in Bach's Cantatas 0002. Historically Informed Readings of the Librettos from Bach's Cantatas 000Part II: Taking Up Anti-Judaism in Cantatas3. Bach's Cantata on the Destruction of Jerusalem 0004. Bach's Cantatas and "the Jews" in the Gospel of John 000Part III: Not Taking Up Anti-Judaism in Passion Settings5. Bach's St. John Passion and "the Jews" 0006. Blood, People, and Crowds in Bach's St. Matthew Passion 000Part IV: Religious Expression in Secular Chamber Music7. The Theological Character of Bach's Musical Offering 000Works Cited 000Index 000

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