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Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations reimagined / Erinn E. Knyt.

Oxford Scholarship Online: Music Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Knyt, Erinn E., author.
Series:
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Goldberg-Variationen.
Bach, Johann Sebastian.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (361 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Summary:
This text provides a detailed reception history of adaptations of Johann Sebastian Bach's Aria mit 30 Veränderungen (Goldberg Variations, BWV 988). It documents multiple ways Bach's work has appeared in arrangements, transcriptions, and re-compositions from 1800 to 2020. It examines adaptations for the traditional concert hall as well as for dance, theatre, cinema, literature, digital media, and visual art. Overall, the book reveals a dramatic increase in adaptations of the piece in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Contents:
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Tables
Acknowledgments
Reimagining J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations
Chapter Summaries
Conclusions
1 Prelude: A Reception History of the Goldberg Variations in the Long Nineteenth Century
Early Reception History of the Goldberg Variations
Busoni's Edition-Transcription-Arrangement-Re-Composition
2 The Goldberg Variations Deconstructed: Transcriptions, Arrangements, and Re-Compositions, 1930-2020
The Work Concept
Textual Fidelity in the Mid-Twentieth Century
A Surprising Resurrection of Busoni's Goldberg Variations
Transcriptions and Arrangements of the Goldberg Variations, 1990-2020
Re-Compositions of the Goldberg Variations
3 The Goldberg Variations Revisited: Multi-Composer Works, Poststructuralism, and the Open Work Concept
Poststructuralism and the Open Text
Two Case Studies
Additional Sets of Multi-Composer Variations
Part One
Part Two
4 Dancing to the Goldberg Variations
Abstract Realizations of the Goldberg Variations
The Extra-Musical and the Goldberg Variations
Deconstructing and Humanizing Bach's Goldberg Variations
Conclusions: Bach and Dance
5 Bach as Machine/Bach as Human: The Goldberg Variations in Film Soundtracks
Semiotics, Allusions, and Instrumentation
Abstract Bach
Human Bach
6 The Goldberg Variations as Protest and Tragedy: Intertextual Readings in Theatrical Works of the Twentieth- and Twenty-First Centuries
Dieter Kühn's Goldberg-Variationen (1974)
Stanley Walden and Bachs Letzte Oper (2002)
George Tabori's Goldberg-Variationen
Tabori-Walden, Goldberg-Variationen, November 26, 2016, Karlsruhe
7 Coda: The Goldberg Variations as Text, Color, and Image.
Summary
The Goldberg Variations in Everyday Venues
The Goldberg Variations and Digital Media
The Goldberg Variations in Literature
The Goldberg Variations in Visual Art
The Goldberg Variations and Architecture
Comparison to the Reception of Other Pieces By Bach
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Coda
Selected Bibliography
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 15, 2024).
ISBN:
0-19-769063-7
0-19-769065-3
0-19-769064-5
9780197690659
OCLC:
1413964137

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