UsedGood. Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers and labels. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials. ISBN 0195161823 9780195161823 [US]

ISBN10: 0195161823, ISBN13: 9780195161823, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA] Softcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]

Paperback. Very Good. ISBN 0195161823 9780195161823 [GB]

ISBN10: 0195161823, ISBN13: 9780195161823, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, New York] Softcover Paperback. Bach's cantatas are surely among the highest achievements of Western musical art, yet individual studies of these works that are both illuminating and detailed are quite few. Chafe combines theological, historical, analytical, and interpretive approaches to the cantatas to offer readers and listeners alike the richest possible experience of these pieces. His study is sensitive to the composer's intentions as well as the universal and enduring qualities of the music itself. Bach's cantatas are among the highest achievements of Western musical art, yet studies of the individual cantatas that are both illuminating and detailed are few. In this book, noted Bach expert Eric Chafe combines theological, historical, analytical, and interpretive approaches to the cantatas to offer readers and listeners alike the richest possible experience of these works. A respected theorist of seventeenth-century music, Chafe is sensitive to the composer's intentions and to the enduring and universal qualities of the music itself. 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 shows how Bach strove to mirror both the dogma and the mystery of religious experience in musical allegory. Analyzing Bach Cantatas offers valuable information on the ...
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Oxford University Press USA, Date: 2003-03-27. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2003. Oxford University Press USA ISBN 0195161823 9780195161823 [US]