Title: Bach and the dance of God /
Authors: Mellers, Wilfrid,
Date: 1981
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: viii, 324 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: [Part] I : Prelude -- God, "Europe", Bach and the high baroque -- Voice and body : Bach's solo cello suites as an apotheosis of the dance -- Harmony, counterpoint and the cross in the Well-tempered clavier -- [Part] II : The second Adam -- A study of the Passion according to St. John -- [Part] III : The resurrection and the life -- The Mass in B minor -- Codetta : the Prelude and fugue in B minor from Book I of the "48" -- [Part] IV : Postlude -- The fugal universe : Bach and number -- The Goldberg variations -- The Canonical variations on Vom Himmel hoch and the last chorale prelude, Vor deinen Thron.
Subject headings (LCSH): Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.