Bach's Dialogue with Modernity
Perspectives on the Passions
Seiten
2010
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-88356-6 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-88356-6 (ISBN)
Why is Bach's music still valuable? Through detailed analysis of the Passions, this 2010 book balances the traditional concern of Bach scholarship - Bach's local creative context - with an analysis of much broader cultural developments. An important contribution to the debate about the culture of 'classical music', its origins, priorities and survival.
Providing a detailed analysis of Bach's Passions, this 2010 book represents an important contribution to the debate about the culture of 'classical music', its origins, priorities and survival. The angles from which each chapter proceeds differ from those of a traditional music guide, by examining the Passions in the light of the mindsets of modernity, and their interplay with earlier models of thought and belief. While the historical details of Bach's composition, performance and theological context remain crucial, the foremost concern of this study is to relate these works to a historical context that may, in some threads at least, still be relevant today. The central claim of the book is that the interplay of traditional imperatives and those of early modernity renders Bach's Passions particularly fascinating as artefacts that both reflect and constitute some of the priorities and conditions of the western world.
Providing a detailed analysis of Bach's Passions, this 2010 book represents an important contribution to the debate about the culture of 'classical music', its origins, priorities and survival. The angles from which each chapter proceeds differ from those of a traditional music guide, by examining the Passions in the light of the mindsets of modernity, and their interplay with earlier models of thought and belief. While the historical details of Bach's composition, performance and theological context remain crucial, the foremost concern of this study is to relate these works to a historical context that may, in some threads at least, still be relevant today. The central claim of the book is that the interplay of traditional imperatives and those of early modernity renders Bach's Passions particularly fascinating as artefacts that both reflect and constitute some of the priorities and conditions of the western world.
John Butt is Gardiner Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow.
Preface; Introduction; 1. Bach's Passions and the construction of early modern subjectivities; 2. Bach's Passions and the textures of time; 3. The hermeneutic perspective: negotiating the poles of faith and suspicion; 4. The voices we hear and the construction of narrative authority; 5. Between rhetoric and dialectic: Bach's inventive stance; Afterword.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.1.2010 |
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Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 180 x 255 mm |
Gewicht | 820 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre | |
ISBN-10 | 0-521-88356-3 / 0521883563 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-88356-6 / 9780521883566 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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