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The Cambridge companion to Bach
- Title
- The Cambridge companion to Bach / edited by John Butt.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | ML410.B13 C36 1997 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Butt, John.
- Description
- xv, 326 pages : illustrations, music; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge companions to music
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge companions to music.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-305) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction / John Butt -- Pt. I. The historical context: society, beliefs and world-view. 1. The Bach family / Malcolm Boyd. 2. Bach and the domestic politics of Electoral Saxony / Ulrich Siegele. 3. Music and Lutheranism / Robin A. Leaver. 4. Bach's metaphysics of music / John Butt. 5. 'A mind unconscious that it is calculating? Bach and the rationalist philosophy of Wolff, Leibniz and Spinoza / John Butt -- Pt. II. Profiles of the music. 6. The early works and the heritage of the seventeenth century / Stephen A. Crist. 7. The mature vocal works and their theological and liturgical context / Robin A. Leaver. 8. The instrumental music / Werner Breig. 9. The keyboard works: Bach as teacher and virtuoso / Richard D. P. Jones. 10. Composition as arrangement and adaptation / Werner Breig. 11. Bachian invention and its mechanisms / Laurence Dreyfus -- Pt. III. Influence and reception. 12. Bach as teacher and model / Stephen Daw.
- 13. Changing issues of performance practice / George B. Stauffer. 14. Bach reception: some concepts and parameters / Martin Zenck. 15. Reinterpreting Bach in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Martin Zenck.
- ISBN
- 052145350X
- 0521459621 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 96022581
- OCLC
- ocm34676056
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries