Record details

• ISBN: 9780151006489
• ISBN: 0151006482
• Physical Description: 738 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: First United States edition
• Publisher: Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, [2006]
• Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 697-719) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface: Approaching Bach -- What Do We Know about Bach? 3 -- Grand Old Men of Bach Biography: Forkel, Spitta, Schweitzer 9 -- Transmission of the Works 23 -- Part 1 Stations of Bach's Life -- From Matins Singer to Hofkapellmeister 35 -- Cantor at St. Thomas and City Music Director in Leipzig 115 -- Director of the Collegium Musicum and Composer of Secular Music 189 -- Part 2 Vocal Music -- Early and Weimar Cantatas 277 -- Leipzig Cantatas 326 -- Passions 385 -- Secular Cantatas and the Christmas Oratorio 415 -- Magnificat and the Masses 436 -- Motets 453 -- Part 3 Instrumental Works -- Art of the Toccata 471 -- Organ Chorales 498 -- Cothen Demonstration Cycles: Inventions and Sinfonias, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Six Solos for Violin 525 -- Concertos 550 -- Sonatas and Suites 579 -- Late Cycles 608 -- Part 4 Horizons -- Bach's Art 643 -- Bach as a Christian 653 -- Rhetoric and Symbolism 660 -- Proportion and Numerical Relations in Bach's Music 670 -- Theological Bach Research: Between Scholarship and Faith-Inspired Learning 675.

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Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 > Criticism and interpretation.