Research Catalog

Title

Music and theology : essays in honor of Robin A. Leaver / edited by Daniel Zager.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zager, Daniel.
• Leaver, Robin A.

Description

vii, 281 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm

Subject

• Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
• Leaver, Robin A
• Church music

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• "Robin A. Leaver: a bibliography of his writings": p. 229-273.

Contents

1. "The soul is symphonic" : meditation on Luke 15:25 and Hildegard of Bingen's letter 23 / William T. Flynn -- 2. Early Lutheran hymnals and other musical sources in the Kessler reformation collection at Emory University / Stephen A. Crist -- 3. Tradition with variations : chorale settings per omnes versus by Buxtehude and Bach / Kerala J. Snyder -- 4. Bach's preluding for a Leipzig academic ceremony / Gregory Butler -- 5. Bach's setting of the hymn tune "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" in his cantatas and organ works / Anne Leahy -- 6. Historically informed rendering of the librettos from Bach's church cantatas / Michael Marissen -- 7. The role of the "actus structure" in the libretto of J. S. Bach's Matthew passion / Don O. Franklin -- 8. Two unusual cues in J. S. Bach's performing parts / Daniel R. Melamed -- 9. Johann Sebastian Bach and the praise of God : some thoughts on the Canon Triplex (BWV 1076) / Albert Clement -- 10. Bach and Dresden : a new hypothesis on the origin of the Goldberg Variations (BWV 988) / Yo Tomita -- 11. A is for Apple : the search for an American church music; or the ABCs of American church music : A is for Apple, B is for Billings, and C is for Chapman / Steve Pilkington -- 12. Beauty and terror : what have we to sing; what has worship to pray? / D. E. Saliers -- 13. Robin A. Leaver : a bibliography of his writings / Sherry L. Vellucci.

ISBN

• 0810854147 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780810854147 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006021111
• 9780810854147

OCLC

• 70176924
• SCSB-14534325

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries