J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument
Essays on His Organ Works
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 January 2013
- ISBN 9780199917235
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 160x236x22 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 35 illustrations 0
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Short description:
In J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument, author Russell Stinson delves into various unexplored aspects of the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Drawing on previous research and new archival sources, he sheds light on many of the most mysterious aspects of these masterpieces, and their reception, and shows how they have remained a fixture of Western culture for nearly three hundred years.
MoreLong description:
Johann Sebastian Bach dominates the field of organ music like no other composer dominates any other repertory. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that Bach's organ works have long attracted scholarly attention. Still, the subject has by no means been exhausted. The sheer number of Bach's surviving organ compositions will always prevent anyone from having the "last word" on the subjects, either the music's stylistic diversity, or its complexity. In addition, Bach's organ works have exerted a profound and lasting influence on later generations, including many of the greatest composers, performers, conductors, critics, and scholars in the whole history of music.
In J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument, author Russell Stinson delves into various unexplored aspects of these masterpieces. Drawing on previous research and new archival sources, he sheds light on many of the most mysterious aspects of this music and its reception. Beginning with a critique of the literature, Stinson questions recent hypotheses regarding authorship and provenance of several of Bach's most famous pieces. From there he discusses the music itself, revealing compositional procedures that not only illuminate key aspects of the chorales, but those of the composer's contemporaries and predecessors as well. From there, Stinson turns to reception. From Mendelssohn and Schumann to Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Stinson shows how Bach's music has remained a part of Western culture for nearly three hundred years. J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument casts new light on these foundational pieces of Western music, and is essential reading for students, scholars and fans of Bach, and "the king of instruments."
A wonderfully readble work of high scholarship ... Anyone with a serious interest in Bach should certainly engage the book carefully and in depth.
Table of Contents:
Contents
INTRODUCTION
ONE
Studies and Discoveries
TWO
Bach and the Varied Stollen
THREE
Some Observations on Mendelssohn's Reception of Bach's Organ Works
FOUR
Bach's Organ Works and Schumann's Neue Zeitschrift
FIVE
César Franck as a Receptor of Bach's Organ Works
Franck's Performances of Bach's Organ Works
Matters of Pedagogy
Franck's Compositional Responses to Bach's Organ Works
SIX
Edward Elgar as a Receptor of Bach's Organ Works
Elgar as Bach Interpreter
Elgar as Bach Devotee and Bach Critic
Elgar's Bach Transcriptions
SEVEN
Aspects of Reception from Bach's Day to the Present
The Six Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-30
The Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532
The Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, BWV 533
The Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540
The Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542
The Six Great Preludes and Fugues, BWV 543-48
The Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV 552
The Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564
The Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
The Fantasy in G Major (Pièce d'Orgue), BWV 572
The Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582
"Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, " BWV 639
"Herzlich tut mich verlangen, " BWV 727
APPENDIX 1
APPENDIX 2
LITERATURE CITED
