J. S. Bach, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Albert Schweitzer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332615252 ISBN 13 : 9781332615254

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Unlock Bach’s expressive power and the ideas behind his music. This volume surveys J. S. Bach’s art with clear, accessible analysis, connecting his church cantatas, secular works, and major choral masterpieces to the broader musical culture of his time. Schweitzer guides readers through Bach’s development, the role of text and pictoriality in the music, and the question of how Bach’s art relates to the idea of “absolute” music.

- Learn how Bach’s music communicates through text, gesture, and musical illustration.
- Explore the debate among 19th‑century aestheticians about Bach’s use of characterful, pictorial elements.
- See how Bach’s cantatas, passions, oratorios, and wedding cantatas fit together in his career.
- Understand how Bach’s instrumental writing and vocal writing interact to create expressive impact.

Ideal for readers curious about Bach’s stylistic approach, historical context, and Schweitzer’s influential perspective on his art. This edition helps you see how Bach’s music aims to depict actions, scenes, and ideas, and why that matters for listening today.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

We argue about absolute music, tone-painting, programme music and tone-language as about actual fundamental problems, and think it a matter for historians only that tendencies towards tone-painting, programme music, or avowed musical narration were noticeable in I talian, German and French music as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However primitive the pictorial and poetic music of the two or three generations before Bach may have been, in respect of their means and possibilities of expression, we can see in it the same instincts and pretensions as in the most modem and most subtilised programme music of a Liszt or a Strauss. This old art, however, was not wholly primitive. It may be possible to regard Froberger, Kuhnau and the composers of the Italian and French character-pieces as simply naive painters in music, who overstepped the bounds of pure music without realising all the bearings of what they were doing. But the composers for the Hamburg theatre knew what they wanted. Music, in their eyes, was a representation of actions, scenes, and ideas. They thought themselves capable of expressing everything in tone. Mattheson even gives recipes for the clear and correct expression of the emotions in music. In a cantata of 1744 for the eighth Sunday after Trinity, Telemann represents the false prophets in sheeps clothing bj a complete circle of fifths through all the twelve major scales. Here the Jacob A dlung, A nleitung zur tnusikalischen Gelahrtheit, 2nd ed. 1783, p. 395. Schweitzfr, Barli.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332615252
• ISBN 13: 9781332615254
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 518
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