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Record Nr.

UNINA9911009379703321

Autore

Crooks James

Titolo

Bach's Architecture of Gratitude : On the Genius of the Mass in B Minor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9780228020653

0228020654

9780228020646

0228020646

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 pages)

Disciplina

782.32/32

Soggetti

Gratitude

Masses - Analysis, appreciation

MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note from the Author on the Mass in B Minor: A Brief Primer and Some Suggestions for Listening -- Introduction -- Part One. The Mass as Aesthetic Object -- The Aesthetic Object -- 1 Liturgy -- 2 Parody -- 3 Measure -- 4 Counterpoint -- Part Two. The Mass as Aesthetic Event -- The Aesthetic Event -- 5 Reading -- 6 Dancing -- 7 Repeating -- 8 Thanking -- Appendix I: Suggestions for Musicological Reading -- Appendix II: Suggestions for Philosophical Reading -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy - certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. Bach's Architecture of Gratitude explores this profound aesthetic experience in a case study of J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and its capacity to inspire gratitude.