J.S. Bach and the oratorio tradition
By: edited by Daniel R. Melamed
Series: Bach perspectives -- v. 8; Bach perspectives -- v. 8.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana, [IL]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780252035845
Subjects: Analysis, appreciation; Oratorios; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Under the spell of opera? : Bach's oratorio trilogy / Christoph Wolff; title: Johann Sebastian Bach and Barthold Heinrich Brockes / Daniel R. Melamed; title: Drama and discourse : the form and function of chorale tropes in Bach's oratorios / Markus Rathey; title: Oratorio on five afternoons : from the Lübeck Abendmusiken to Bach's Christmas oratorio / Kerala J. Snyder; title: The triumph of "instrumental melody" : aspects of musical poetics in Bach's St. John passion / Laurence Dreyfus; title: Bach's Ascension oratorio : God's kingdoms and their representation / by Eric Chafe.