Bach Studies
- Author: Franklin, Don O.
Bach Studies
- Author: Franklin, Don O.
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This volume of essays reflects the increasing breadth and scope of Bach research. The fifteen essays by American and European scholars address a wide range of topics and issues: Magnificat, Cantata, and Passion; Parody and Genre; The Well-Tempered Clavier; and Transmission and Reception. Many of the authors focus on works which due to the Bach chronology - can now be examined in a fresh light. Seen as a whole, the essays combine source - critical and analytic methods with historical and theological interpretation to consider problems of genesis and style, as well as questions of transmission and reception.
Contents
- Part I . Magnificat, Cantata and Passion:
- 1. On the origin of Bach's Magnificat: a Lutheran composer's challenge Robert L. Marshall;
- 2. Expressivity in the accompanied recitatives of Bach's cantatas George J. Buelow;
- 3. Aria forms in the Cantatas from Bach's first Leipzig Jahrgang Stephen A. Criss;
- 4. The regulative and generative roles of verse in Bach's 'thematic' invention Paul Brainard;
- 5. The St John Passion: theology and musical stricture Eric T Chafe;
- Part II . Parody and genre:
- 6. Bach's parody technique and its frontiers Alfred Mann;
- 7. Three organ-trio transcriptions from the Bach circle: keys to a lost Bach chamber work Russell Stinson;
- 8. 'This fantasia... never had its like': on the enigma and chronology of Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903 George B. Stauffer;
- 9. French overture conventions in the hands of the young Bach and Handel Peter Williams;
- Part III . The Well-Tempered Clavier I and II:
- 10. The four conceptual stages of the Fugue in C Minor, WTC I Brick Siegele;
- 11. The genesis of the prelude in C Major, BWV 870 James A. Brokaw II;
- 12. Reconstructing the Urpartitur for WTC II: a study of the "London autograph" (BL Add. MS 35021) Don O. Franklin;
- Part IV . Transmission and reception: Bach in the eighteenth century Ludwig Finscher;
- 13. Tradition as authority and provocation: Anton Weburn's confrontation with Johann Sebastian Bach Martin Zenck;
- 14. The human side of the American Bach sources Gerhard Herz.
