Rethinking Bach

Buch | Hardcover

414 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-094389-9 (ISBN)

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This book a offers a multitude of provocative new perspectives on one of the most iconic composers in the Western classical tradition. Its collective rethinking of some of our most cherished narratives and deeply held beliefs about Johann Sebastian Bach will allow readers to see the man in a new light and to hear his music with new ears.

Johann Sebastian Bach has loomed large in the imagination of scholars, performers, and audiences since the late nineteenth century.This new book, edited by veteran Bach scholar Bettina Varwig, gathers a diverse group of leading and emerging Bach researchers as well as a number of contributors from beyond the core of Bach studies. The book's fourteen chapters engage in active 'rethinking' of different topics connected with Bach; the iconic name which broadly encompasses the historical individual, the sounds and afterlives of his music, as well as all that those four letters came to stand for in the later popular and scholarly imagination. In turn, challenging the fundamental assumptions about the nineteenth-century Bach revival, the rise of the modern work concept, Bach's music as a code, and about editions of his music as monuments. Collectively, these contributions thus take apart, scrutinize, dust off and reassemble some of our most cherished narratives and deeply held beliefs about Bach and his music. In doing so, they open multiple pathways towards exciting future modesof engagement with the composer and his legacy.

Bettina Varwig is Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College. She has published widely on music and cultural history in the early modern period.

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Abbreviations

Introduction: (Still) Talking about Bach
Bettina Varwig

I. Histories

Chapter 1
Bach and Material Culture
Stephen Rose

Chapter 2
Rethinking 1829
Ellen Exner

Chapter 3
Post/Colonial Bach
Yvonne Liao

II. Bodies

Chapter 4
Bach and the Soprano Voice
Wendy Heller

Chapter 5
Embodied Invention: Bach at the Keyboard
Bettina Varwig

Chapter 6
Rethinking Affect
Isabella van Elferen

III. Meanings

Chapter 7
Bach and Theology
Jeremy Begbie

Chapter 8
Bach the Humorist
David Yearsley

Chapter 9
Rethinking Bach Codes
Daniel R. Melamed

Chapter 10
Bach's Works and the Listener's Viewpoint
John Butt

IV. Currents

Chapter 11
Bach's Chorale Pedagogy
Derek Reme%s

Chapter 12
Rethinking Editions: Mass, Missa, and Monument Culture
Joshua Rifkin

Chapter 13
Bach Against Modernity
Michael Marissen

Chapter 14
Bach Anxiety: A Meditation on the Future of the Past
Michael Markham

Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.11.2021
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	239 x 163 mm
Gewicht	689 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10	0-19-094389-0 / 0190943890
ISBN-13	978-0-19-094389-9 / 9780190943899
Zustand	Neuware