LEADER 03840nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910780055103321 005 20210921031726.0 010 $a1-4008-0510-4 010 $a1-4008-2165-7 010 $a1-282-75220-0 010 $a9786612752209 010 $a1-4008-1260-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821655 035 $a(CKB)111056486503558 035 $a(EBL)581623 035 $a(OCoLC)700688646 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000247295 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11208999 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247295 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10198934 035 $a(PQKB)10561381 035 $a(OCoLC)51575541 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36001 035 $a(DE-B1597)446155 035 $a(OCoLC)979623608 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821655 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581623 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035788 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275220 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581623 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486503558 100 $a19940623d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe social and religious designs of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg concertos$b[electronic resource] /$fMichael Marissen 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (163 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-00686-5 311 0 $a0-691-03739-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 135-144) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tINTRODUCTION. Bach's Musical Contexts --$tCHAPTER ONE. Relationships between Scoring and Structure in Individual Concertos --$tCHAPTER TWO. The Six Concertos as a Set --$tCHAPTER THREE. Lutheran Belief and Bach's Music --$tAppendix 1. Text-Critical Notes on Early Copies of the Sixth Brandenburg Concerto --$tAppendix 2. Notes on Bach's Notation of the Gamba Parts in the Margrave of Brandenburg's Dedication Score --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aThis new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies. By reference to contemporary music theory, to alternate notions of the meaning of "concerto," and to various eighteenth-century conventions of form and instrumentation, the book argues that the Brandenburg Concertos are better understood not as an arbitrary collection of unrelated examples of "pure" instrumental music, but rather as a carefully compiled and meaningfully organized set. It shows how Bach's concertos challenge (as opposed to reflect) existing musical and social hierarchies. Careful consideration of Lutheran theology and Bach's documented understanding of it reveals, however, that his music should not be understood to call for progressive political action. One important message of Lutheranism, and, in this interpretation, of Bach's concertos, is that in the next world, the heavenly one, the hierarchies of the present world will no longer be necessary. Bach's music more likely instructs its listeners how to think about and spiritually cope with contemporary hierarchies than how to act upon them. In this sense, contrary to currently accepted views, Bach's concertos share with his extensive output of vocal music for the Lutheran liturgy an essentially religious character. 606 $aMUSIC / History & Criticism$2bisacsh 615 7$aMUSIC / History & Criticism. 676 $a784.2/4 700 $aMarissen$b Michael$01464722 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780055103321 996 $aThe social and religious designs of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg concertos$93674510 997 $aUNINA