Analyzing Bach Cantatas
- Author: Chafe, Eric
Chafe is a formidable music theorist ... Inalyzing Bach Cantatas is a provocative and challenging book, an impressive blend of historical methodology and practical demonstration. Its author...
Analyzing Bach Cantatas
- Author: Chafe, Eric
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Chafe is a formidable music theorist ... Inalyzing Bach Cantatas is a provocative and challenging book, an impressive blend of historical methodology and practical demonstration. Its author...
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The Bach cantatas are among the highest achievements of Western musical art; yet studies of individual Bach cantatas that are both illuminating and detailed are few in number. In this book Eric Chafe combines theological, historical, analytical, and interpretive approaches to the cantatas to offer the reader and listener the richest possible experience of the works in the light of the composer's intentions and of the enduring and universal qualities of the works. Concentrating on a small number of representative cantatas, mostly from the Leipzig cycles of 1723-24 and 1724-25, and in particular on Cantata 77, Chafe illustrates how Bach strove to mirror both the dogma and the mystery of religious experience in musical allegory.
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Chafe is a formidable music theorist ... Inalyzing Bach Cantatas is a provocative and challenging book, an impressive blend of historical methodology and practical demonstration. Its author has done much to reinvigorate the search for meaning in Bach
In its densely packed, often densely argued, pages Analysing Bach's Cantatas presents a cogent, all-embracing method of inquiry into one of the richest legacies of the western European classical tradition. The book and its multi-disciplinary approach stand as a monument to modern Bach scholarship, with which Chafe opens many windows of understanding on the composer's music
