Bach: Mass in B Minor
Title | Bach: Mass in B Minor PDF eBook |
Author | John Butt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 1991-06-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521387163 |
The Mass in B Minor is arguably Bach's greatest single work. John Butt gives an absorbing account of the work's genesis, its historical context, and its reception by later generations.
Exploring Bach's B-minor Mass
Title | Exploring Bach's B-minor Mass PDF eBook |
Author | Yo Tomita |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2013-10-17 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1107469902 |
The B-minor Mass has always represented a fascinating challenge to musical scholarship. Composed over the course of Johann Sebastian Bach's life, it is considered by many to be the composer's greatest and most complex work. The fourteen essays assembled in this volume originate from the International Symposium 'Understanding Bach's B-minor mass' at which scholars from eighteen countries gathered to debate the latest topics in the field. In revised and updated form, they comprise a thorough and systematic study of Bach's Opus Ultimum, including a wide range of discussions relating to the Mass's historical background and contexts, structure and proportion, sources and editions, and the reception of the work in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the light of important new developments in the study of the piece, this collection demonstrates the innovation and rigour for which Bach scholarship has become known.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Title | Johann Sebastian Bach PDF eBook |
Author | Christoph Wolff |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780199248841 |
Now available in paperback, this landmark biography was first published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach's death. Written by a leading Bach scholar, this book presents a new picture of the composer. Christoph Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between Bach's life and his music, showing how the composer's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher.
Drawing Dynamic Hands
Title | Drawing Dynamic Hands PDF eBook |
Author | Burne Hogarth |
Publisher | Watson-Guptill |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 1988-04-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0823013685 |
The most comprehensive book ever published on drawing hands uses a revolutionary system for visualizing the hand in an almost infinite number of positions.
The Tchaikovsky Papers
Title | The Tchaikovsky Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0300191367 |
A wealth of previously unpublished letters and personal documents drawn from the family archives of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
First Nights at the Opera
Title | First Nights at the Opera PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Forrest Kelly |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2006-05-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780300115260 |
A renowned music scholar narrates the social history of European opera during its golden age in the 18th and 19th centuries by taking readers behind the scenes at the premiere performances of five extraordinary and influential operas. 88 illustrations.
Opera on Screen
Title | Opera on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Marcia J. Citron |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780300081589 |
"The author draws on ideas from diverse fields, including media studies and gender studies, to examine issues ranging from the relationship between sound and image to the place of the viewer in relation to the spectacle. As she raises questions about divisions between high art and popular art and about the tensions between live and reproduced art forms, Citron reveals how screen treatments reinforce opera's vitality in a media-intensive age."--BOOK JACKET.