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100	1		_aWolff, Christoph, _e1
245	1	0	_aBach : _bessays on his life and music / _cChristoph Wolff.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)1991.
300			_axiv, 461 pages : _bmusic ; _c26 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_a1 (pages 399-436) and indexes.
505	0	0	_a[Part 1. : Outlines of a musical portrait -- _tNew perspectives on Bach biography -- _tThe family -- _tDecisive career steps -- _tEmployers and patrons -- _tBuxtehude, Bach, and seventeenth-century music in retrospect -- _tBach and Johann Adam Reinken : a context for the early works -- _tVivaldi's compositional art, Bach, and the process of "musical thinking" -- _tBach and the tradition of the Palestrina style -- _t[Part 2. : New sources : broadened perspectives -- _tThe Neumeister collection of chorale preludes from the Bach circle -- _tBach's audition for the St. Thomas cantorate : the cantata "Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn" -- _tOrigins of the Kyrie of the B minor mass -- _tThe reformation cantata "Ein feste Burg" -- _tThe handexemplar of the Goldberg variations -- _tBach's personal copy of the Schubler chorales -- _tThe Clavier-Ubung series -- _tText-critical documents on the original print of the partitas -- _tBach's Leipzig chamber music -- _tNew research on the Musical offering -- _tBach's last fugue : unfinished? -- _tThe compositional history of the Art of fugue -- _tThe deathbed chorale : exposing a myth -- _t[Part 3. : Concepts, style, and chronology -- _tChronology and style in the early works : a background for the Orgel-Buchlein -- _tThe architecture of the passacaglia -- _tThe organ in Bach's cantatas -- _tApropos the Musical offering : the Thema Regium and the term ricercar -- _tThe Agnus Dei of the B minor mass : parody and new composition reconciled -- _tPrinciples of design and order in Bach's original editions -- _tToward a definition of the last period of Bach's work -- _t[Part 4. : Early reception and artistic legacy -- _tOn the original editions of Bach's works -- _tBach's vocal music and early music criticism -- _tOn the recognition of Bach and "the Bach chorale" : eighteenth-century perspectives -- _t"The extraordinary perfections of the hon. court composer" : an inquiry into the individuality of Bach's music.
520	0		_aThe noted Bach scholar Christoph Wolff offers in this book new perspectives on the composer's life and remarkable career. Uncovering important historical evidence, the author demonstrates significant influences on Bach's artistic development and brings insight on his work habits, compositional intent, and the musical traditions that shaped Bach's thought. Wolff reveals a composer devoted to an ambitious and highly individual creative approach, one characterized by constant self-criticism and self-challenge, the absorption of new skills and techniques, and the rethinking of riches from the musical past. Readers will find analyses of some of Bach's greatest music, including the B Minor Mass, important cantatas, keyboard and chamber compositions, the Musical Offering, and the Art of Fugue. Discussion of how these pieces "work" will be helpful to performers--singers, players, conductors--and to everyone interested in exploring the conceptual and contextual aspects of Bach's music. All readers will find especially interesting those essays in which Wolff elaborates on his celebrated discoveries of previously unknown works: notably the fourteen "Goldberg" canons and a collection of thirty-three chorale preludes. --From publisher's description.
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