Bach Perspectives

. Ed(s): Butler, Gregory

ISBN 10: 0252031652 / ISBN 13: 9780252031656

Published by University of Illinois Press, 2007

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Editor(s): Butler, Gregory. Series: Bach Perspectives. Num Pages: 136 pages, 2 photographs. BIC Classification: AVGC4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 188 x 262 x 17. Weight in Grams: 478. . 2007. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bach Perspectives
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252031652
• ISBN 13: 9780252031656
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

J. S. Bach's creativity is so overwhelming his compositions in some genres eclipse his work in others. His glorious choral works, profound organ compositions, and exquisite solo compositions for violin and cello attract the most attention. Volume Seven of Bach Perspectives restores Bach's concertos to their rightful place of honor.

Gregory Butler focuses on Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in E Major (BWV 1053) as a pastiche created by a process of assemblage of three earlier heterogeneous movements. Pieter Dirksen delves into the source history of the Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in F Minor (BWV 1056) and concludes it represents a transcription of an earlier violin concerto in G minor. David Schulenberg investigates the generic ambiguity of the concerto in the early eighteenth century and how it diverged from the sonata to become a distinct genre. Completing the volume is Christoph Wolff's examination of the ""Siciliano"" as a slow movement in Bach's concertos and its implications for the source history of his Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in E Major (BWV 1053).

About the Author

Gregory Butler is a professor emeritus of musicology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Bach's Clavier-Übung III: The Making of a Print.