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