MelamedCambridge University PressEdition: New Ed, 1/12/2008EAN 9780521028912, ISBN10: 0521028914Paperback, 256 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cmLanguage: EnglishThis 1995 volume brings together essays on J. S. Bach and members of his family by a distinguished group of scholars. The essays address Bach's compositions, his knowledge of the musical past, his study of contemporaries, and the cultivation of his own music by later generations. The studies draw on source criticism, musical analysis, religious and social context, performance practice and reception history - a broad range of techniques and issues in Bach scholarship. The international contributors include both established scholars and newer voices in Bach studies. This volume will be indispensable for any future work on the Musical Offering, St Matthew Passion, Italian Concerto, on Bach's musical connections with his sons Carl Philipp Emanuel and Wilhelm Friedemann and on many other topics in Bach research.List of figuresPrefaceList of abbreviations1. An early version of the first movement of the Italian Concerto BWV 971 from the Scholz Collection? Kirsten Beißwenger2. J. S. Bach's reception of Tomaso Albinoni's mature concertos Gregory G. Butler3. J. S. Bach and G. F. Kauffmannreflections on Bach's later style John Butt4. The variation principle in J. S. Bach's Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 Yoshitake Kobayashi5. Forms and functions of the choral movements in J. S. Bach's St Matthew Passion Ulrich Leisinger6. The theological character of J. S. Bach's Musical Offering Michael Marissen7. A thirty-six voice canon in the hand of C. P. E. Bach Daniel R. Melamed8. Some questions of performance in J. S. Bach's Trauerode Joshua Rifkin9. J. S. Bach's A major flute sonata BWV 1032 revisted Jeanne Swack10. Rhetoric, the ricercar, and J. S. Bach's Musical Offering Paul Walker11. J. S. Bach and the legacy of the seventeenth century Christoph Wolff12. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach's Halle performances of cantatas by his father Peter WollnyIndex of J. S. Bach's worksGeneral index.
