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Mystical Love in the German Baroque
Isabella Van Elferen
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Hardback. Series: Contextual Bach Studies. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 28. Weight in Grams: 730.
Mystical Love in the German Baroque: Theology, Poetry, Music identifies the cultural and devotional conventions underlying expressions of mystical love in poetry and music of the German baroque. It sheds new light on the seemingly erotic overtones in settings of the Song of Songs and dialogues between Christ and the faithful soul in late 17th- and early 18th-century cantatas by Heinrich Schütz, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Johann Sebastian Bach. While these compositions have been interpreted solely as a secularizing tendency within devotional music of the baroque period, Isabella van Elferen demonstrates that they need to be viewed instead as intensifications of ... Read more
Mystical Love in the German Baroque: Theology, Poetry, Music identifies the cultural and devotional conventions underlying expressions of mystical love in poetry and music of the German baroque. It sheds new light on the seemingly erotic overtones in settings of the Song of Songs and dialogues between Christ and the faithful soul in late 17th- and early 18th-century cantatas by Heinrich Schütz, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Johann Sebastian Bach. While these compositions have been interpreted solely as a secularizing tendency within devotional music of the baroque period, Isabella van Elferen demonstrates that they need to be viewed instead as intensifications of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
Contextual Bach Studies
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810861367
SKU
V9780810861367
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About Isabella Van Elferen
Isabella van Elferen is assistant professor of Music and New Media at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies of Utrecht University. She is the editor of Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Eighteenth Century until the Present Day (2007).
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