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The Crucifixion in Music. An Analytical Survey of Settings of the Crucifixus Between 1680 and 1800.
Jasmin Melissa Cameron
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Description for The Crucifixion in Music. An Analytical Survey of Settings of the Crucifixus Between 1680 and 1800.
Hardback. The Crucifixion in Music studies the musical representation of words and the concepts and contexts to which words refer, examining the way the treatment of a literary text, namely the Crucifixus, coalesces into a recognizable musical tradition that individual composers follow, develop, modify, or ignore. Series: Contextual Bach Studies. Num Pages: 396 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 758.
Unique yet diverse in its approach, The Crucifixion in Music examines how text is set in music through the specific musicological period from 1680 to 1800. The treatise focuses specifically on the literary text of the Crucifixus from the Credo of the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass. Combining analytical theory and method to address musical rhetoric, semiotics, and theory, author Jasmin Cameron follows the Crucifixion through many settings in Baroque and Classical music. In this first title in Scarecrow Press's new series, Contextual Bach Studies, Cameron studies musical representations of the text, first through a discussion that establishes ... Read more
Unique yet diverse in its approach, The Crucifixion in Music examines how text is set in music through the specific musicological period from 1680 to 1800. The treatise focuses specifically on the literary text of the Crucifixus from the Credo of the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass. Combining analytical theory and method to address musical rhetoric, semiotics, and theory, author Jasmin Cameron follows the Crucifixion through many settings in Baroque and Classical music. In this first title in Scarecrow Press's new series, Contextual Bach Studies, Cameron studies musical representations of the text, first through a discussion that establishes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
Series
Contextual Bach Studies
Number of Pages
396
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810852754
SKU
V9780810852754
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About Jasmin Melissa Cameron
Jasmin Melissa Cameron is lecturer in Music at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. She has published articles on texted music in the late Baroque and Classical periods, and produced the recent edition of Vivaldi's Gloria RV 589 for the New Novello Choral Series.
Reviews for The Crucifixion in Music. An Analytical Survey of Settings of the Crucifixus Between 1680 and 1800.
A fascinating account of Bach's musical interpretation of the crucifixion...This unique study of musical settings of the Crucifixus is believed to be the first of its kind in the world...
Deeside Piper
...offers many fresh insights....opens our horizon to see a wider range of issues in perspective...
Bach Bibliography
Cameron (music, U. of Aberdeen, Scotland) analyzes ... Read more
Deeside Piper
...offers many fresh insights....opens our horizon to see a wider range of issues in perspective...
Bach Bibliography
Cameron (music, U. of Aberdeen, Scotland) analyzes ... Read more