Bach in the World - Music, Society, and Representation in Bach''s Cantatas

Bach in the World offers a new exploration of Bach's music as it functioned within rituals and as a place where socio-political norms were perpetuated and sometimes even challenged.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• A note on translations


• 1. Introduction


• 2. Music, Space, and Symbolic Communication in Bach's Installation Cantatas


• 3. Music as Spiritual Practice and Political Message: The Theology of Bach's Cöthen Cantatas


• 4. Trumpets, Drums, and Thundering Cannons: The Te Deum Laudamus in Civic Ceremonies


• 5. Cantatas as Multisensory Spectacles: Beyond the Score of BWV 215


• 6. Defeminizing Virtue: Gender Identities in Bach's Secular Cantatas of the 1730s


• 7. Taming the Coquette: Literary Conventions and Compositional Processes in the Coffee Cantata


• 8. The "Wonderful Play" of Music: An Epilogue


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Markus Rathey is Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History at Yale University. His research focuses on music in the second half of the 17th century, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the Bach family. His books include a study of Bach's Christmas Oratorio and an introduction to Bach's major vocal works. He is past-president of the American Bach Society and associate editor of the Yale Journal of Music and Religion.

Summary

Bach in the World offers a new exploration of Bach's music as it functioned within rituals and as a place where socio-political norms were perpetuated and sometimes even challenged.

Additional text

Rathey (Yale) has published extensively on the music of J. S. Bach... Rathey's works include Bach's Major Vocal Works: Music, Drama, Liturgy and Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio: Music, Theology, Culture.

Product details

• Authors: Markus Rathey, Markus (Robert S. Tangeman Professor in th Rathey, Markus (Robert S. Tangeman Professor in the Practice of Music History Rathey, Rathey Markus
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780197578841
• ISBN: 978-0-19-757884-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Religious / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Sacred and religious music, Sacred & Religious Music, Western "classical" music