Engaging Bach
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 05 April 2012
- 29 March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781139027908
- 9780521651608
- Dimensions:
- (247 x 174 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.56kg, 202 Pages
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- Subjects:
- Seventeenth-Century Music, Music, Music Performance
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- Seventeenth-Century Music, Music, Music Performance
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Book description
More than any other part of Bach's output, his keyboard works conveyed the essence of his inimitable art to generations of admirers. The varied responses to this repertory - in scholarly and popular writing, public lectures, musical composition and transcription, performances and editions - ensured its place in the canon and broadened its creator's appeal. The early reception of Bach's keyboard music also continues to affect how we understand and value it, though we rarely recognize that historical continuity. Here, Matthew Dirst investigates how Bach's music intersects with cultural, social and music history, focusing on a repertory which is often overshadowed in scholarly and popular literature on Bach reception. Organized around the most productive ideas generated by Bach's keyboard works from his own day to the middle of the nineteenth century, this study shows how Bach's remarkable and long-lasting legacy took shape amid critical changes in European musical thought and practice.
Reviews
'Dirst, a performer himself, is a lively writer and makes many useful observations.'
Source: The Times Literary Supplement
'This concise volume is a welcome and valuable addition to the burgeoning genre of Bach reception literature.'
Source: Early Music America
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