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| Named Person: | Johann Sebastian Bach; Johann Sebastian Bach |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Marissen |
| ISBN: | 0691037396 9780691037394 0691006865 9780691006864 |
| OCLC Number: | 30780397 |
| Description: | 150 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Bach's Musical Contexts -- Ch. 1. Relationships between Scoring and Structure in Individual Concertos. The First Brandenburg Concerto. The First Movement of the Sixth Brandenburg Concerto. The Fourth Brandenburg Concerto -- Ch. 2. The Six Concertos as a Set -- Ch. 3. Lutheran Belief and Bach's Music -- Appendix 1: Text-Critical Notes on Early Copies of the Sixth Brandenburg Concerto -- Appendix 2: Notes on Bach's Notation of the Gamba Parts in the Margrave of Brandenburg's Dedication Score. |
| Responsibility: | Michael Marissen. |
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Abstract:
This new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies. By reference to contemporary music theory, to alternate notions of the meaning of "concerto," and to various eighteenth-century conventions of form and instrumentation, the book argues that the Brandenburg Concertos are better understood not as an arbitrary collection of unrelated examples of "pure" instrumental music but rather as a carefully compiled and meaningfully organized set. It shows how Bach's concertos challenge (as opposed to reflect) existing musical and social hierarchies.
Careful consideration of Lutheran theology and Bach's documented understanding of it reveals, however, that his music should not be understood to call for progressive political action. One important message of Lutheranism, and, in this interpretation, of Bach's concertos, is that in the next world, the heavenly one, the hierarchies of the present world will no longer be necessary. Bach's music more likely instructs its listeners how to think about and spiritually cope with contemporary hierarchies than how to act upon them. In this sense, contrary to currently accepted views, Bach's concertos share with his extensive output of vocal music for the Lutheran liturgy an essentially religious character.
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