Analyzing Bach cantatas /

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Author / Creator:	Chafe, Eric Thomas, 1946-
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 286 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Bach, Johann Sebastian, -- 1685-1750. -- Cantatas. Bach, Johann Sebastian, -- 1685-1750 -- Harmony. Bach, Johann Sebastian, -- 1685-1750 -- Religion. Bach, Johann Sebastian, -- 1685-1750. Cantatas (Bach, Johann Sebastian) Cantatas, Sacred -- Analysis, appreciation. Cantatas, Sacred -- Analysis, appreciation. Harmony. Religion. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11142747

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ISBN:	9780198028291 0198028296 1423761642 9781423761648 9780195347555 0195347552 019512099X 9780195161823 9780195120998 0195161823
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Bach's cantatas are among the highest achievements of Western musical art, yet studies of the individual cantatas that are both illuminating and detailed are few. In this book, noted Bach expert Eric Chafe combines theological, historical, analytical, and interpretive approaches to the cantatas to offer readers and listeners alike the richest possible experience of these works. A respected theorist of seventeenth-century music, Chafe is sensitive to the composer's intentions and to the enduring and universal qualities of the music itself. Concentrating on a small number of representative canta.
Other form:	Print version: Chafe, Eric Thomas, 1946- Analyzing Bach cantatas. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 019512099X 0195161823

Table of Contents:

""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""ONE THE HERMENEUTIC MATRIX""; ""TWO THE LUTHERAN METAPHYSICAL TRADITION IN MUSIC AND MUSIC THEORY""; ""THREE CANTATA 21, ICH HATTE VIEL BEKÜMMERNIS""; ""FOUR MODAL QUESTIONS""; ""FIVE BACH'S REFLECTION ON THE PAST: MODAL CHORALES IN CANTATA DESIGNS""; ""SIX TWO CHORALE CANTATAS""; ""SEVEN CANTATA 77: THE THEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND""; ""EIGHT DU SOLLT GOTT, DEINEN HERREN, LIEBEN: AN ANALYSIS OF CANTATA 77""; ""NINE CANTATA 60: O EWIGKEIT, DU DONNERWORT""; ""Notes""

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