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By Eric Chafe

Bach's cantatas are one of the maximum achievements of Western musical paintings, but stories of the person cantatas which are either illuminating and designated are few. during this publication, famous Bach professional Eric Chafe combines theological, ancient, analytical, and interpretive ways to the cantatas to supply readers and listeners alike the richest attainable adventure of those works. A revered theorist of seventeenth-century tune, Chafe is delicate to the composer's intentions and to the iconic and common traits of the song itself.

Concentrating on a small variety of consultant cantatas, generally from the Leipzig cycles of 1723-24 and 1724-25, and specifically on Cantata seventy seven, Chafe exhibits how Bach strove to reflect either the dogma and the secret of non secular adventure in musical allegory. Analyzing Bach Cantatas bargains priceless details at the theological relevance of the constitution of the liturgical 12 months for the layout and content material of those works, in addition to a survey of the theories of modality that tell Bach's compositional type. Chafe demonstrates that, whereas Bach definitely hired "pictorialism" and word-painting in his compositions, his approach to writing song used to be a extra complicated amalgam of theological techniques and song conception. concerning the cantatas as musical allegories that mirror the elemental tenets of Lutheran theology as verified in the course of Bach's lifetime, Chafe synthesizes a couple of key musical and theological principles to light up the basic personality of those nice works.

This certain and insightful e-book deals a vital technique for knowing one of many imperative our bodies of labor within the Western musical canon. it's going to turn out critical for all scholars and students of Bach's paintings, musicology, and theological studies.

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