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Bach Perspectives, Vol. 7:

J. S. Bach's Concerted Ensemble Music, The Concerto

ISBN-13: 9780252031656
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Edited by Gregory Butler
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Local release date: 13/09/2007
Format: Hardback 136 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Music [AV]

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Google Preview: The creativity of J. S. Bach is so overwhelming that his compositions in some genres can risk eclipsing his work in others; his glorious choral works, profound organ compositions, and exquisite solo compositions for violin and cello have historically attracted the most attention. Volume 7 of Bach Perspectives aims to restore Bach's concertos to their rightful place of honor. Continuing the reevaluation of these musical compositions, Gregory Butler focuses on Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in E Major (BWV 1053) as a pastiche created by a process of assemblage of three earlier heterogeneous movements. Pieter Dirksen, on the basis of his study of the source history of the Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in F Minor (BWV 1056), concludes that it represents a transcription of an earlier violin concerto in G minor. David Schulenberg investigates the generic ambiguity of the concerto at the beginning of the eighteenth century and how it gradually diverges from the sonata as a distinct genre. Completing the volume is Christoph Wolff's general examination of the siciliano as a slow movement in Bach's concertos and its implications for the source history of his Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in E Major (BWV 1053).; ''Donald Pizer's new book proves he is among the best, if not the best, editor and compiler working the field of American literature. Combining an impressive command of the era with an unmatched knowledge of Dreiser's life, Pizer has brought the letters to life, filling in both the foreground and background of the letters and bringing continuity to what easily could have become a series of disparate documents.''--Richard Lehan, editor of ''Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men''; Google Preview content

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Bach Perspectives, Vol. 7:

J. S. Bach's Concerted Ensemble Music, The Concerto