Exploring Bach's B-minor mass /edited by Yo Tomita, Robin A. Leaver, and Jan Smaczny.
Exploring Bach's B-minor mass /edited by Yo Tomita, Robin A. Leaver, and Jan Smaczny.
- New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xxix, 314 pages) : illustrations, music.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Past, present and future perspectives on Bach's B-minor Mass / Bach's Mass: 'Catholic' or 'Lutheran'? / Bach's Missa BWV 232ยน in the context of Catholic Mass settings in Dresden, 1729-1733 / The role and significance of the polonaise in the 'Quoniam' of the B-minor Mass / 'The Great Catholic Mass': Bach, Count Questenberg and the Musicalische congregation in Vienna / Some observations on the formal design of Bach's B-minor Mass / Chiastic reflection in the B-minor Mass: lament's paradoxical mirror / Parallel proportions, numerical structures and Harmonie in Bach's autograph score / Many problems, various solutions: editing Bach's B-minor Mass / Manuscript score No. 4500 in St. Petersburg: a new source of the B-minor Mass / Haydn's copy of the B-minor Mass and Mozart's Mass in C Minor: Viennese traditions of the B-minor Mass / 'A really correct copy of the mass'?: Mendelssohn's score of the B-minor Mass as a document of the Romantics' view on matters of performance practice and source criticism / The B-minor Mass in nineteenth-century England / Bach's B-minor Mass: an incarnation in Prague in the 1860s and its consequences / Christoph Wolff -- Robin A. Leaver -- Janice B. Stockigt -- Szymon Paczkowski -- Michael Maul -- Ulrich Siegele -- Melvin P. Unger -- Ruth Tatlow -- Uwe Wolf -- Tatiana Shabalina -- Ulrich Leisinger -- Anselm Hartinger -- Katharine Pardee -- Jan Smaczny.
"The B-minor Mass has always represented a fascinating challenge to musical scholarship. Composed over the course of the composer's life, it is considered by many to be Johann Sebastian Bach's greatest and most complex work. The fourteen essays assembled in this volume originate from the International Symposium 'Understanding Bach's B-minor mass' in 2007 at which seventy scholars from eighteen countries gathered to debate the latest topics in the field. In revised and updated form, they form a through and systematic study of Bach's Opus Ultimum, including a wide range of discussions relating to the Mass's historical background and contexts, structure and proportion, sources and editions, and the reception of the work in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the light of important new developments in the study of the piece, this collection demonstrates the innovation and rigor for which Bach scholarship has become known."--
9781107464735 9781139047661 9781461950592
Electronic Books.
ML410 / .E975 2013
Includes bibliographies and index.
Past, present and future perspectives on Bach's B-minor Mass / Bach's Mass: 'Catholic' or 'Lutheran'? / Bach's Missa BWV 232ยน in the context of Catholic Mass settings in Dresden, 1729-1733 / The role and significance of the polonaise in the 'Quoniam' of the B-minor Mass / 'The Great Catholic Mass': Bach, Count Questenberg and the Musicalische congregation in Vienna / Some observations on the formal design of Bach's B-minor Mass / Chiastic reflection in the B-minor Mass: lament's paradoxical mirror / Parallel proportions, numerical structures and Harmonie in Bach's autograph score / Many problems, various solutions: editing Bach's B-minor Mass / Manuscript score No. 4500 in St. Petersburg: a new source of the B-minor Mass / Haydn's copy of the B-minor Mass and Mozart's Mass in C Minor: Viennese traditions of the B-minor Mass / 'A really correct copy of the mass'?: Mendelssohn's score of the B-minor Mass as a document of the Romantics' view on matters of performance practice and source criticism / The B-minor Mass in nineteenth-century England / Bach's B-minor Mass: an incarnation in Prague in the 1860s and its consequences / Christoph Wolff -- Robin A. Leaver -- Janice B. Stockigt -- Szymon Paczkowski -- Michael Maul -- Ulrich Siegele -- Melvin P. Unger -- Ruth Tatlow -- Uwe Wolf -- Tatiana Shabalina -- Ulrich Leisinger -- Anselm Hartinger -- Katharine Pardee -- Jan Smaczny.
"The B-minor Mass has always represented a fascinating challenge to musical scholarship. Composed over the course of the composer's life, it is considered by many to be Johann Sebastian Bach's greatest and most complex work. The fourteen essays assembled in this volume originate from the International Symposium 'Understanding Bach's B-minor mass' in 2007 at which seventy scholars from eighteen countries gathered to debate the latest topics in the field. In revised and updated form, they form a through and systematic study of Bach's Opus Ultimum, including a wide range of discussions relating to the Mass's historical background and contexts, structure and proportion, sources and editions, and the reception of the work in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the light of important new developments in the study of the piece, this collection demonstrates the innovation and rigor for which Bach scholarship has become known."--
9781107464735 9781139047661 9781461950592
Electronic Books.
ML410 / .E975 2013