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The Cambridge Companion to Bach

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John Butt
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Cambridge University Press, Jun 26, 1997 - Music - 326 pages
The Cambridge Companion to Bach goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and composer. Benefiting from the insights and research of some of the most distinguished Bach scholars, this Companion covers cultural, social and religious contexts, surveys and analyses Bach's compositional style, traces his influence, and considers the performance and reception of his music through the succeeding generations. - Publisher.
  

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Contents

Introduction
1
The historical context society beliefs and worldview
7
The Bach family
9
Bach and the domestic politics of Electoral Saxony
17
Music and Lutheranism
35
Bachs metaphysics of music
46
A mind unconscious that it is calculating? Bach and the rationalist philosophy of Wolff Leibniz and Spinoza
60
Profiles of the music
73
Composition as arrangement and adaptation
154
Bachian invention and its mechanisms
171
Influence and reception
193
Bach as teacher and model
195
Changing issues of performance practice
203
Bach reception some concepts and parameters
218
Reinterpreting Bach in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
226
Notes
251

The early works and the heritage of the seventeenth century
75
The mature vocal works and their theological and liturgical context
86
The instrumental music
123
The keyboard works Bach as teacher and virtueso
136
Select bibliography
294
General Index
306
Index of works
318
Copyright

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TitleThe Cambridge Companion to Bach
Cambridge Companions to Music
Cambridge collections online
Cambridge companions complete collection
EditorJohn Butt
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherCambridge University Press, 1997
ISBN0521587808, 9780521587808
Length326 pages
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