The Cambridge Companion to Bach
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
First Edition. Hardcover.
Publisher’s description:
The Cambridge Companion to Bach goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late-twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and composer. Benefiting from the insights and research of distinguished Bach scholars, this Companion covers cultural, social and religious contexts, surveys and analyzes Bach's compositional style, traces his influence, and considers the performance and reception of his music through the succeeding generations.
Table of Contents:
List of plates
Notes on contributors
List of abbreviations
Chronology of Bach’s Life
Introduction by John Butt
Part I. The Historical Context: Society Beliefs and World-View
1. The Bach family by Malcolm Boyd
2. Johann Sebastian Bach in the context of domestic politics in Electoral Saxony by Ulrich Siegele
3. Music and Lutheranism by Robin A. Leaver
4. Bach's metaphysics of music by John Butt
5. 'A mind unconscious that it is calculating'? Bach and the rationalist philosophy of Wolff, Leibniz and Spinoza by John Butt
Part II. Profiles of the Music
6. The early works and the heritage of the seventeenth century by Stephen A. Crist
7. The mature vocal works and their theological and liturgical context by Robin A. Leaver
8. The instrumental music by Werner Breig
9. The keyboard works: Bach as teacher and virtuoso by Richard D. P. Jones
10. Composition as arrangement and adaptation by Werner Breig
11. Bachian invention and its mechanisms by Laurence Dreyfus
Part III. Influence and Reception
12. Bach as teacher and model by Stephen Daw
13. Changing issues of performance practice by George B. Stauffer
14. Bach reception: some concepts and parameters by Martin Zenck
15. Reinterpreting Bach in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by Martin Zenck
ISBN: 052145350X
7 x 10", maroon paper over boards with silver print and decoration, 326pp, notes, selected bibliography, general index, index of works by J. S. Bach.
Shallow crease upper corners first xv pp, dark rectangular offsetting on rear board where ISBN label has been removed, a bit of rubbing to paper over boards, clean of owner's marks, tight, square, very good.
Price: $115.00