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Bach Perspectives, Volume 9

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Bach
Bach's contemporaries
Baroque
Baroque era
Baroque music
Cantata
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chamber music
Christoph Graupner
classical music
classical music history
composing of classical music
composition
Concerto
concertos
Darmstadt
Dresden
early classical
eighteenth century classical music
eighteenth century music
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Georg Lehms
Georg Muffat
Georg Philipp Telemann
German
German mixed style
Germany
Gottlieb Muffat
Hamburg
high Baroque music
history of classical music
Innovation
Johann Abraham Birnbaum
Johann Adolf Hasse
Johann Adolf Scheibe
Johann Gottfried Walther
Johann Matthias Gesner
Johann Sebastian Bach
Leipzig
making of classical music
music composition
Opera
operas
oratorio
oratorios
orchestral music
orchestral suite
orchestral suites
orchestration
Ouverture
Reception History
religious music
sacred music
Scheibe Controversy
suite
suites
symphonies
symphony
Vienna
writing of classical music

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252038136
  • Weight: 540g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Dec 2013
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description
This provocative addition to the Bach Perspectives series offers a counternarrative to the isolated genius status that J. S. Bach and his music currently enjoy. Contributors contextualize Bach by examining the output, reputation, and compositional practices of his contemporaries in Germany whose work was widely played and enjoyed in his time, including Georg Philipp Telemann, Christoph Graupner, Gottlieb Muffat, and Johann Adolf Scheibe. Essays place Bach and his work in relation to his peers, examining avenues of composition they took while he did not and showing how differing treatments of the same subjects or texts resulted in markedly different compositional results and legacies. By looking closely at how Bach's contemporaries addressed the tasks and challenges of their time, this project provides a more nuanced view of the musical world of Bach's time while revealing in more specific terms than ever how and why Bach's own music remains fresh and compelling.

In this volume, Wolfgang Hirschmann proposes an ethnographic approach that contextualizes Bach's works, addressing the aesthetic paths he took as well as those he did not pursue. Steven Zohn's essay considers Telemann's contribution to the orchestral Ouverture genre, observering how Telemann's approach to integrating the national styles of his time was quite different from, but no less rich than, Bach's. Andrew Talle compares settings and strategies of Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust by Bach and Graupner. Alison Dunlop presents valuable primary research on Muffat, the most commonly cited keyboard music composer in Vienna during Bach's lifetime. Finally, Michael Maul sheds new light on the Scheibe-Birnbaum controversy, contextualizing the most famous critique of J. S. Bach's compositional style by discussing the other composers that Scheibe critiqued.
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Andrew Talle is the chair of the musicology department at the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University.