Exploring Bach's B-minor mass / edited by Yo Tomita, Robin A. Leaver, and Jan Smaczny.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tomita, Yo, editor.

Leaver, Robin A., editor.

Smaczny, Jan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Masses--BWV 232--B minor.

Bach, Johann Sebastian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The B-minor Mass has always represented a fascinating challenge to musical scholarship. Composed over the course of Johann Sebastian Bach's life, it is considered by many to be the composer's greatest and most complex work. The fourteen essays assembled in this volume originate from the International Symposium 'Understanding Bach's B-minor mass' at which scholars from eighteen countries gathered to debate the latest topics in the field. In revised and updated form, they comprise a thorough 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 rigour for which Bach scholarship has become known.

Contents:

Past, present and future perspectives on Bach's B-minor Mass / Christoph Wolff

Bach's Mass: 'Catholic' or 'Lutheran'? / Robin A. Leaver

Bach's Missa BWV 232¹ in the context of Catholic Mass settings in Dresden, 1729-1733 / Janice B. Stockigt

The role and significance of the polonaise in the 'Quoniam' of the B-minor Mass / Szymon Paczkowski

'The Great Catholic Mass': Bach, Count Questenberg and the Musicalische congregation in Vienna / Michael Maul

Some observations on the formal design of Bach's B-minor Mass / Ulrich Siegele

Chiastic reflection in the B-minor Mass: lament's paradoxical mirror / Melvin P. Unger

Parallel proportions, numerical structures and Harmonie in Bach's autograph score / Ruth Tatlow

Many problems, various solutions: editing Bach's B-minor Mass / Uwe Wolf

Manuscript score No. 4500 in St. Petersburg: a new source of the B-minor Mass / Tatiana Shabalina

Haydn's copy of the B-minor Mass and Mozart's Mass in C Minor: Viennese traditions of the B-minor Mass / Ulrich Leisinger

'A really correct copy of the mass'?: Mendelssohn's score of the B-minor Mass as a document of the Romantics' view on matters of performance practice and source criticism / Anselm Hartinger

The B-minor Mass in nineteenth-century England / Katharine Pardee

Bach's B-minor Mass: an incarnation in Prague in the 1860s and its consequences / Jan Smaczny.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781107460560

1107460565

9781139890458

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OCLC:

862614144