Johann Sebastian Bach
Subtitle: life and work
By: Martin Geck ; translated from the German by John Hargraves
Contributors: Hargraves, John
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.; Harcourt
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Number of pages: 738
ISBN-13: 9780151006489
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Work titles: Bach
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 697-719) and index.
Table of contents: title: Approaching Bach.; title: What do we know about Bach? ;; title: The grand old men of Bach biography : Forkel, Spitta, Schweitzer ;; title: Transmission of the works --; title: The stations of Bach's life.; title: From matins singer to Hofkapellmeister; title: (Eisenach ;; title: Ohrdruf ;; title: Lüneburg ;; title: Arnstadt ;; title: Mühlhausen ;; title: Weimar ;; title: Cöthen) ;; title: Cantor at St. Thomas and city music director in Leipzig; title: (The position and its new incumbent ;; title: The early years in Leipzig ;; title: The middle Leipzig period : "court composer") ;; title: Director of the Collegium Musicum and composer of secular music; title: (Aesthetic controversies, private initiatives ;; title: The later Leipzig years : the universalist ;; title: The Bach household) --; title: The vocal music.; title: The early and Weimar cantatas ;; title: The Leipzig cantatas ;; title: The passions ;; title: Secular cantatas and the Christmas oratorio ;; title: The Magnificat and the masses ;; title: The motets --; title: The instrumental works.; title: The art of the toccata ;; title: The organ chorales ;; title: The Cöthen demonstration cycles : inventions and sinfonias, The well-tempered clavier, six solos for violin ;; title: The concertos ;; title: The sonatas and suites ;; title: The late cycles; title: (The Goldberg variations ;; title: The art of fugue ;; title: The musical offering) --; title: Horizons.; title: Bach's art ;; title: Bach as a Christian ;; title: Rhetoric and symbolism ;; title: Proportion and numerical relations in Bach's music ;; title: Theological Bach research : between scholarship and faith-inspired learning.