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Bach Perspectives, Volume 12:

Bach and the Counterpoint of Religion

ISBN-13: 9780252041983
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Edited by Robin A. Leaver
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Local release date: 14/12/2018
Format: Hardback 176 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Western "classical" music [AVGC]

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Johann Sebastian Bach was a Lutheran, and much of his music was for Lutheran liturgical worship. As these insightful essays in the twelfth volume of Bach Perspectives demonstrate, he was also influenced by--and in turn influenced--different expressions of religious belief. The vocal music, especially the Christmas Oratorio, owes much to medieval Catholic mysticism, and the evolution of the B minor Mass has strong Catholic connections. In Leipzig, Catholic and Lutheran congregations sang many of the same vernacular hymns. Internal squabbles were rarely missing within Lutheranism, for example, Pietists' dislike of concerted church music, especially if it employed specific dance forms. Also investigated here are broader issues such as the close affinity between Bach's cantata libretti and the hymns of Charles Wesley, and Bach's music in the context of the Jewish Enlightenment as shaped by Protestant Rationalism in Berlin.

Contributors: Rebecca Cypess, Joyce L. Irwin, Robin A. Leaver, Mark Noll, Markus Rathey, Derek Stauff, and Janice B. Stockigt.; "This volume is interesting and contains a wide variety of topics for the reader. . . .This serves as a very specialized collection of essays for the discerning scholar and student, regardless of his or her interest and association with Kantor Bach." --Concordia Theological Quarterly; Google Preview content

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Bach and the Counterpoint of Religion