TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marissen,Michael
TI  - Bach & God
SN  - 9780190606961 (ebook)
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Bach, Johann Sebastian,
KW  - Church music
KW  - Lutheran Church
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Music
KW  - ukslc
KW  - thema
KW  - Art music, orchestral & formal music
KW  - Religion & beliefs
KW  - Christian life & practice
KW  - Musicians, singers, bands & groups
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Music reviews & criticism
KW  - Composers & songwriters
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9780190606954; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - 'Bach & God' explores the religious character of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen gives wide-ranging insights from detailed investigations of both words and music. Bach is inexhaustible, and this suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn; Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he also shows how Bach's pitches, rhythms, and tone colors can make contributions to a work's plausible meanings that go beyond setting texts in an aesthetically satisfying manner. In some of Bach's vocal repertory, the music puts a "spin " on the words in a way that turns out to be explainable as orthodox Lutheran in its orientation. In a few of Bach's vocal works, his otherwise puzzlingly fierce musical settings serve to underscore now unrecognized or unacknowledged verbal polemics, most unsettlingly so in the case of his church cantatas that express contempt for Jews and Judaism. Finally, even Bach's secular instrumental music, particularly the late collections of "abstract " learned counterpoint, can powerfully project certain elements of traditional Lutheran theology. Bach's music is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn
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