Bach & God
Title | Bach & God PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Marissen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2016-04-20 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190606967 |
Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he also shows how Bach's pitches, rhythms, and tone colors can make contributions to a work's plausible meanings that go beyond setting texts in an aesthetically satisfying manner. In some of Bach's vocal repertory, the music puts a "spin" on the words in a way that turns out to be explainable as orthodox Lutheran in its orientation. In a few of Bach's vocal works, his otherwise puzzlingly fierce musical settings serve to underscore now unrecognized or unacknowledged verbal polemics, most unsettlingly so in the case of his church cantatas that express contempt for Jews and Judaism. Finally, even Bach's secular instrumental music, particularly the late collections of "abstract" learned counterpoint, can powerfully project certain elements of traditional Lutheran theology. Bach's music is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.
Bach and the Dance of God
Title | Bach and the Dance of God PDF eBook |
Author | Wilfrid Mellers |
Publisher | Travis and Emery Music Bookshop |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781904331872 |
Wilfrid Mellers is a composer, musician and author. Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. This is his classic book on Bach.
Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
Title | Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Kavanaugh |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0310208068 |
This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
Title | From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel C. Dennett |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2017-02-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0393242080 |
"A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work." —Nature How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled abilities. Disciples of Darwin have explained how natural selection produced plants, but what about the human mind? In From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel C. Dennett builds on recent discoveries from biology and computer science to show, step by step, how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. A crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doing things not based in genetic instinct. Competition among memes produced thinking tools powerful enough that our minds don’t just perceive and react, they create and comprehend. An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers and scientists, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain all those curious about how the mind works.
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Title | Gödel, Escher, Bach PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
Publisher | Penguin Group(CA) |
Pages | 832 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Art and music |
ISBN | 9780140289206 |
'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to impart his original and personal view on the core mystery of human existence - our intangible sensation of 'I'-ness - Hofstadter defines the playful yet seemingly paradoxical notion of 'strange loop', and explicates this idea using analogies from many disciplines.
Music in the Castle of Heaven
Title | Music in the Castle of Heaven PDF eBook |
Author | John Eliot Gardiner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Composers |
ISBN | 9780713996623 |
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the unfathomable composers in the history of music. This book explains the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects - and what it can tell us about Bach the man.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Title | Johann Sebastian Bach PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Geck |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 764 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780151006489 |
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