Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457483714
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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A Choral Worship Cantata in SATB with AT Soli voicing, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Author: Charles Francis Abdy Williams
Publisher: London : J.M. Dent ; New York : E.P. Dutton
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Author: Charles Sanford Terry
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Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Category : Audiotapes
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Author: Reginald Lane Poole
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Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 2038

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Author: John Eliot Gardiner
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385351984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque—and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer’s greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime’s immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, and explaining in wonderful detail the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects—and what it can tell us about Bach the man. Gardiner’s background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. This has entailed piecing together the few biographical shards, scrutinizing the music, and watching for those instances when Bach’s personality seems to penetrate the fabric of his notation. Gardiner’s aim is “to give the reader a sense of inhabiting the same experiences and sensations that Bach might have had in the act of music-making. This, I try to show, can help us arrive at a more human likeness discernible in the closely related processes of composing and performing his music.” It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach’s works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists.

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Category : Compact discs
Languages : en
Pages : 1354

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Author: Chester L. Alwes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199720975
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 505

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A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition. Author Chester L. Alwes divides this exploration into two volumes which move from Medieval music and the Renaissance era up to the 21st century. Volume I surveys the choral music of composers including Josquin, Palestrina, Purcell, Handel, and J.S. Bach while detailing the stylistic, textual, and extramusical considerations unique to the topics covered. Consideration of Renaissance music includes both sacred and secular works, specifically addressing the growth of sacred music, the rise of secular music, and the proliferation of sacred polyphony from Josquin to Palestrina. Discussion of the Baroque era is organized by geographic location, exploring the spread of Baroque style from Italy to German, France, and England. Volume I concludes by examining the aesthetic underpinnings of the early Classical and Romantic eras. Framing discussion within the political, religious, cultural, philosophical, aesthetic, and technological contexts of each era, A History of Western Choral Music offers readers specialized insight into major composers and works while providing a cohesive understanding of choral music's place in Western history.

Author: David Daniels
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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As with the previous edition, Daniels includes only compositions that he has personally examined. He gives information on the number and type of instruments needed to perform each piece as well as the approximate duration