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Title: Analyzing Bach Cantatas by Eric Chafe ISBN: 0-19-516182-3 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The meaning of music
Comment: Far from being a mind unconscious that it is calculating, Chafe convincingly argues that Bach carefully set his canata texts to illuminate their theological meaning. Beginning with simple devices such as triads to represent the trinity, Chafe describes Bach's use of more subtle musical ideas such ascending or descending lines and harmonies to represent, for example, God's incarnation (descent to earth) and mankind's redemption (ascent to heaven). Bach's use of numerology, for example in his use of extended musical patterns repeated ten times to represent the Ten Commandments, strongly belies the notion that this composer was uncalculating. While the musical power of Bach's cantatas touch us even though we may not understand the significance -- or even the meaning -- of the text, Chafe's insights reveal for us the many ways in which Bach's music expresses Lutheran theological ideas, allowing us to appreciate Bach on an entirely different level. Highly recommended.
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Title: The World of the Bach Cantatas: Early Sacred Cantatas (Set) by Johann Sebastian Bach, Christoph Wolff ISBN: 0393041069 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Essential Bach Choir by Andrew Parrott ISBN: 0851157866 Publisher: Boydell Press Pub. Date: 09 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Sacred Choral Music of J. S. Bach: A Handbook by John Butt ISBN: 1557251975 Publisher: Paraclete Pr Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff ISBN: 0393322564 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The New Bach Reader by Hans T. David, Arthur Mendel, Chirstoph Wolff ISBN: 0393319563 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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