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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788721603321

Titolo

J.S. Bach and the oratorio tradition [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Daniel R. Melamed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, [IL], : University of Illinois Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-01763-6

9786613017635

0-252-09021-7

Descrizione fisica

152 p. : ill., music

Collana

Bach perspectives ; ; v. 8

Classificazione

24.50

Altri autori (Persone)

MelamedDaniel R

Disciplina

780.92

Soggetti

Oratorios - Analysis, appreciation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Under the spell of opera? : Bach's oratorio trilogy / Christoph Wolff -- Johann Sebastian Bach and Barthold Heinrich Brockes / Daniel R. Melamed -- Drama and discourse : the form and function of chorale tropes in Bach's oratorios / Markus Rathey -- Oratorio on five afternoons : from the Lübeck Abendmusiken to Bach's Christmas oratorio / Kerala J. Snyder -- The triumph of "instrumental melody" : aspects of musical poetics in Bach's St. John passion / Laurence Dreyfus -- Bach's Ascension oratorio : God's kingdoms and their representation / by Eric Chafe.