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Bach's Passions

Door Paul Steinitz

Categorie
Componisten
Boeknummer
#414736-XY12
Titel
Bach's Passions
Auteur
Steinitz, Paul
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Paul Elek
Jaar van uitgave
1979
ISBN10
0236401327
ISBN13
9780236401321
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, musical scales, 8vo. Masterworks of Choral Music.
Samenvatting
"Despite--perhaps because of--the enormous popularity of Bach's St Matthew and St John Passions, much in them commonly goes unnoticed by the listener and even performer. Paul Steinitz, well known as founder and conductor of the London Bach Society and Steinitz Bach Players, here sets Bach's passions in the context of their time and explores each in detail, so that their true greatness may be appreciated as fully as possible. He outlines the German passion tradition, and Bach's use of that tradition; the musical conditions and religious situation in which Bach worked; the nature and origins of the texts and chorale tunes he employed. In two central chapters, the music of the St Matthew and St John Passions is considered number by number, and here Dr Steinitz brings out the close marria... (Lees verder)ge between words and music (often lost in English versions), the overall dramatic structure of each work, and links with other works by Bach. Also discussed are the changes Bach made in his own performances of the St Matthew and St John Passions, and the music of Bach's fragmentary St Mark Passion. The book ends with a fascinating account of the two-centuries-long emergence of the St Matthew and St John Passions--on the European continent, in Britain and America--towards the esteem in which they are held today, starting with the story, drawing on eye-witness material, of the 20-year-old Mendelssohn's 'resurrection' of the St Matthew in 1829, and ending with a comparison of 'national styles' of performance in the modern era."--Dust jacket.
Pagina's
137
Conditie
Goed — Dust jacket slightly worn along top edge.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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