Daniel R. Melamed

J. S. Bach and the German Motet

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

J. S. Bach's much-performed motets are probably the most sophisticated pieces ever composed in the genre. Daniel Melamed takes a fresh look at Bach's works in the context of the German motet tradition, showing that they are firmly rooted in the conventions of his time. This allows new insights into Bach's contribution to the genre and into the vexing question of instrumental participation in the motets. Professor Melamed argues for Bach's authorship of an early motet wrongly dismissed as inauthentic, and demonstrates that other motets were products of Bach's familiar technique of musical reworking. The chronology of the motets can be substantially revised, and Bach's activities as a motet composer shown to extend over his entire career. An understanding of the eighteenth-century conception of "motet" sheds light on how and why Bach used motet style in his cantatas, Latin works, and oratorios. Finally Bach's study and performance of seventeenth-century motets late in his life, documented in newly discovered and reconstructed sources, played an important role in his exploration of his family's history and of the musical past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780521619769
• ISBN-10: 0521619769
• Artikelnr.: 21935313

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
List of music examples
List of figures
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. The Term and Concept 'Motet': 1. The term 'motet' in the first half of the eighteenth century
2. J. S. Bach's use of the term 'motet'
Part II. Bach's Motets: 3. Bach's motets and their relation to the genre
4. Bach's earlier motets: rethinking authorship and dating
5. Bach's later motets: rethinking compositional history
6. Chronology, style, and performance practice of Bach's motets
Part III. Motet Style in Bach's Concerted Compositions: 7. The concept of the motet-like movement
8. Motet style in Bach's church cantatas
9. Motet style in Bach's Latin works and oratorios
10. Bach's use of motet style in concerted works
Part IV. Bach's Contact with Seventeenth-Century Motets: 11. The history of the Altbachisches Archiv
12. J. S. Bach and the Altbachisches Archiv
13. Sebastian Knüpfer, 'Erforsche mich, Gott'
Appendix
Bibliography
Index of J. S. Bach's works
Index of manuscript music sources
General Index.