Bach''s Dialogue With Modernity - Perspectives on the Passions

Klappentext A detailed 2010 analysis of Bach's Passions which demonstrates how they reflect and constitute priorities and conditions of the western world. Zusammenfassung Why is Bach's music still valuable? Through detailed analysis of the Passions! this 2010 book balances the traditional concern of Bach scholarship - Bach's local creative context - with an analysis of much broader cultural developments. An important contribution to the debate about the culture of 'classical music'! its origins! priorities and survival. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Bach's Passions and the construction of early modern subjectivities; 2. Bach's Passions and the textures of time; 3. The hermeneutic perspective: negotiating the poles of faith and suspicion; 4. The voices we hear and the construction of narrative authority; 5. Between rhetoric and dialectic: Bach's inventive stance; Afterword.

Product details

• Authors: John Butt, John (University of Glasgow) Butt
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.02.2012
• EAN: 9781107404601
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40460-1
• No. of pages: 330
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history