| Exploring Bach's B-Minor Mass Contributor(s): Tomita, Yo (Editor), Leaver, Robin A. (Editor), Smaczny, Jan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1107007909 ISBN-13: 9781107007901 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - Religion | Christian Rituals & Practice - General - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 782.323 |
| LCCN: 2013013111 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.7" W x 9.8" (1.90 lbs) 341 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The B-minor Mass has always represented a fascinating challenge to musical scholarship. Composed over the course of the composer's life, it is considered by many to be Johann Sebastian Bach's greatest and most complex work. The fourteen essays assembled in this volume originate from the International Symposium 'Understanding Bach's B-minor mass' in 2007 at which seventy scholars from eighteen countries gathered to debate the latest topics in the field. In revised and updated form, they form a through and systematic study of Bach's Opus Ultimum, including a wide range of discussions relating to the Mass's historical background and contexts, structure and proportion, sources and editions, and the reception of the work in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the light of important new developments in the study of the piece, this collection demonstrates the innovation and rigor for which Bach scholarship has become known. |
Contributor Bio(s): Leaver, Robin a.: - Robin A. Leaver is Honorary Professor at Queen's University Belfast. Former president of the American Bach Society, he has written over twenty-five books, including 'Goostly psalmes and spirituall songes': English and Dutch Metrical Psalters from Coverdale to Utenhove, 1535-1566 (1991), Liturgy and Music: Lifetime Learning (with Joyce Ann Zimmerman, 1998) and Luther's Liturgical Music: Principles and Implications (2007). His current research involves several projects on Bach studies.Tomita, Yo: - Yo Tomita is Professor of Musicology at Queen's University Belfast. His publications include essays in The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (ed. Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg, 2007) and The English Bach Awakening: Knowledge of J. S. Bach and his Music in England 1750-1830 (ed. Michael Kassler, 2004). His research focuses on Bach studies, manuscript studies, piano education, text-critical analysis using artificial intelligence techniques, and the development of computer software and tools for musicology.Smaczny, Jan: - Jan Smaczny is Sir Hamilton Harty Professor of Music at Queen's University Belfast. He has wide-ranging research interests, particularly in relation to the impact of earlier music, including that of Bach, on composers of the Romantic era. Author of two books, The Daily Repertoire of the Prague Provisional Theatre (1994) and Dvorak's Cello Concerto (1999), he has contributed articles to a number of publications, including The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia (2006). His co-edited volume, Wagner and Dvorák, will be published in 2013. |