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Description for Bach & God
Hardback. Bach & God explores the religious character of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging insights from detailed investigations of both words and music. Bach is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2. BIC Classification: AVGC3; AVH; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 218 x 27. Weight in Grams: 422.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
422g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190606954
SKU
V9780190606954
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About Michael Marissen
Michael Marissen is Daniel Underhill Professor Emeritus of Music at Swarthmore College, where he taught from 1989 to 2014. He has also been a visiting professor on the graduate faculties at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (Princeton, 1995), Lutheranism, anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John ... Read more
Reviews for Bach & God
[A] splendid title ... It brings to mind two approximately equal figures engaged in a complicated dialogue, like Jefferson and Adams, or Siskel and Ebert.
Alex Ross, The New Yorker
Michael marissen sets out to be thorough and honest (p. xv) as he investigates religious meaning in Johann Sebastian Bachs music. His scholarship is scrupulous, and thus he ... Read more
Alex Ross, The New Yorker
Michael marissen sets out to be thorough and honest (p. xv) as he investigates religious meaning in Johann Sebastian Bachs music. His scholarship is scrupulous, and thus he ... Read more