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An edition of Johann Sebastian Bach (2006)

Johann Sebastian Bach

life and work

1st U.S. ed.
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Harcourt, Inc.
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English
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738

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Johann Sebastian Bach: life and work
2006, Harcourt, Inc.
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2006, Harcourt, Inc., Harcourt
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Table of Contents

Approaching Bach.
What do we know about Bach? ;
The grand old men of Bach biography : Forkel, Spitta, Schweitzer ;
Transmission of the works --
The stations of Bach's life.
From matins singer to Hofkapellmeister
(Eisenach ;
Ohrdruf ;
Lüneburg ;
Arnstadt ;
Mühlhausen ;
Weimar ;
Cöthen) ;
Cantor at St. Thomas and city music director in Leipzig
(The position and its new incumbent ;
The early years in Leipzig ;
The middle Leipzig period : "court composer") ;
Director of the Collegium Musicum and composer of secular music
(Aesthetic controversies, private initiatives ;
The later Leipzig years : the universalist ;
The Bach household) --
The vocal music.
The early and Weimar cantatas ;
The Leipzig cantatas ;
The passions ;
Secular cantatas and the Christmas oratorio ;
The Magnificat and the masses ;
The motets --
The instrumental works.
The art of the toccata ;
The organ chorales ;
The Cöthen demonstration cycles : inventions and sinfonias, The well-tempered clavier, six solos for violin ;
The concertos ;
The sonatas and suites ;
The late cycles
(The Goldberg variations ;
The art of fugue ;
The musical offering) --
Horizons.
Bach's art ;
Bach as a Christian ;
Rhetoric and symbolism ;
Proportion and numerical relations in Bach's music ;
Theological Bach research : between scholarship and faith-inspired learning.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 697-719) and index.

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Orlando

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Dewey Decimal Class
780.92, B
Library of Congress
ML410.B1 G36713 2006

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738 p. :
Number of pages
738

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OL24764752M
Internet Archive
johannsebastianb00geck
ISBN 10
0151006482
ISBN 13
9780151006489
LCCN
2006012390
OCLC/WorldCat
66463744

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