Bach Perspectives
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Bach Perspectives

J.S. Bach and the Oratorio Tradition

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Bach Perspectives

J.S. Bach and the Oratorio Tradition

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As the official publication of the American Bach Society, Bach Perspectives has pioneered new areas of research in the life, times, and music of Bach since its first appearance in 1995. Volume 8 of Bach Perspectives emphasizes the place of Bach's oratorios in their repertorial context. These essays consider Bach's oratorios from a variety of perspectives: in relation to models, antecedents, and contemporary trends; from the point of view of musical and textual types; and from analytical vantage points including links with instrumental music and theology. Christoph Wolff suggests the possibility that Bach's three festive works for Christmas, Easter, and Ascension Day form a coherent group linked by liturgy, chronology, and genre. Daniel R. Melamed considers the many ways in which Bach's passion music was influenced by the famous poetic passion of Barthold Heinrich Brockes. Markus Rathey examines the construction and role of oratorio movements that combine chorales and poetic texts (chorale tropes). Kerala Snyder shows the connections between Bach's Christmas Oratorio and one of its models, Buxtehude's Abendmusiken spread over many evenings. Laurence Dreyfus argues that Bach thought instrumentally in the composition of his passions at the expense of certain aspects of the text. And Eric Chafe demonstrates the contemporary theological background of Bach's Ascension Oratorio and its musical realization

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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780252090219
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Under the Spell of Opera? Bach’s Oratorio Trilogy
  8. Johann Sebastian Bach and Barthold Heinrich Brockes
  9. Drama and Discourse: The Form and Function of Chorale Tropes in Bach’s Oratorios
  10. Oratorio on Five Afternoons: From the Lübeck Abendmusiken to Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
  11. The Triumph of “Instrumental Melody”: Aspects of Musical Poetics in Bach’s St. John Passion
  12. Bach’s Ascension Oratorio: God’s Kingdoms and Their Representation
  13. Contributors
  14. General Index
  15. Index of Bach’s Compositions
  16. Index of Other Compositions