Music and theology : essays in honor of Robin A. Leaver / edited by Daniel Zager.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zager, Daniel.

Leaver, Robin A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church music.

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.

Bach, Johann Sebastian.

Leaver, Robin A.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

vii, 281 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.

Summary:

Robin A. Leaver holds a unique place in sacred music scholarship because of his training in both music and theology. He has written widely, bringing acute insights on a variety of musical repertoires and topics related to Martin Luther, sixteenth-century psalmody, hymnody, and the sacred music of Johann Sebastian Bach. In Music and Theology: Essays in Honor of Robin A. Leaver, twelve scholars influenced by Leaver's work contribute essays in diverse areas of sacred music history and philosophy, focusing on the intersection of music and theology. Ranging chronologically from twelfth-century writer and composer Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) to present-day considerations of American church music and worship, this book provides thought-provoking new work for all who study church music. Reflecting the prominent emphasis in Leaver's own scholarship, eight chapters deal with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, including his organ music, sacred cantatas, and passion settings. A final chapter provides a chronological listing of Leaver's own voluminous writings on music and theology.

Contents:

"The soul is symphonic" : meditation on Luke 15:25 and Hildegard of Bingen's letter / William T. Flynn

Early Lutheran hymnals and other musical sources in the Kessler Reformation Collection at Emory University / Stephen A. Crist

Tradition with variations : chorale settings per omnes versus by Buxtehude and Bach / Kerala J. Snyder

Bach's preluding for a Leipzig academic ceremony / Gregory Butler

Bach's setting of the hymn tune "nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" in his cantatas and organ works / Anne Leahy

Historically informed rendering of the librettos from Bach's church cantatas / Michael Marissen

The role of the "actus structure" in the libretto of J. S. Bach's Matthew Passion / Don O. Franklin

Two unusual cues in J. S. Bach's performing parts / Daniel R. Melamed

Johann Sebastian Bach and the praise of God : some thoughts on the canon triplex (BWV 1076) / Albert Clement

Bach and Dresden: a new hypothesis on the origin of the Goldberg variations (BWV 988) / Yo Tomita

A is for apple : the search for an American church music / Steve Pilkington

Beauty and terror : what have we to sing; what has worship to pray? / D.E. Saliers

Robin A. Leaver : a bibliography of his writings / Sherry L. Vellucci.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Robin A. Leaver: a bibliography of his writings": pages 229-273.

ISBN:

0810854147

9780810854147

OCLC:

70176924

Publisher Number:

9780810854147