Bach Against Modernity
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197669495ISBN-10:197669492UPC:9780197669495Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & StylesBook Topic:ClassicalSize:8.31 x 5.84 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SCFRP0HMXQ
Many scholars and music lovers hold that J.S. Bach is a modern figure, as his music seems to speak directly to the aesthetic, spiritual, or emotional concerns of today's listeners. But, by eighteenth-century standards, Bach and his music in fact reflected and forcefully promoted a premodern world and life view. In Bach against Modernity, author Michael Marissen offers a new look at Bach that...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197669495ISBN-10:197669492UPC:9780197669495Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & StylesBook Topic:ClassicalSize:8.31 x 5.84 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SCFRP0HMXQ
Michael Marissen is Daniel Underhill Professor Emeritus of Music at Swarthmore College, where he taught from 1989 to 2014. He has also been a visiting professor on the graduate faculties at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos; Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion;...
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