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Bach: Mass in B Minor: (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series) » (1st Edition)
Authors: John Butt, Julian Rushton
ISBN-13: 9780521387163, ISBN-10: 0521387167
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: John Butt
Book Synopsis
The Mass in B Minor is arguably Bach's greatest single work. John Butt gives an absorbing account of the work's genesis, its historical context, and its reception by later generations.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| List of abbreviations | ||
| 1 | The musical genre of the mass Ordinary | 1 |
| 2 | Genesis and purpose | 7 |
| The Missa of 1733 | 7 | |
| Cantata BWV 191: Gloria in excelsis Deo | 12 | |
| Bach's compilation of the Mass in B Minor | 14 | |
| Evidence for performances before Bach's death | 19 | |
| Bach's purpose in compiling the missa tota | 20 | |
| 3 | Reception history | 25 |
| Early manuscript transmission | 25 | |
| Early performances | 27 | |
| The first editions | 29 | |
| Bach-Gesellschaft to Neue Bach-Ausgabe | 31 | |
| After the Neue Bach-Ausgabe | 36 | |
| Performance practice | 38 | |
| 4 | Text and music: the process of adaptation and composition | 42 |
| 5 | Ritornello forms | 60 |
| The "classical" ritornello | 62 | |
| The relationship between the ritornello and the vocal sections | 62 | |
| Hidden ritornellos | 68 | |
| 6 | The influence of the dance | 70 |
| Dances and the structure of movements--the "Qui sedes" | 72 | |
| 7 | Counterpoint | 77 |
| Bach and the stile antico | 77 | |
| Other contrapuntal movements | 82 | |
| 8 | Figurae and the motivic texture | 84 |
| 9 | Patterns and proportions: large-scale structuring and continuity in the Mass in B Minor | 92 |
| The Missa of 1733 (Kyrie and Gloria) | 92 | |
| The Symbolum Nicenum | 94 | |
| The remaining sections of the Mass | 95 | |
| The structure of the complete Mass | 95 | |
| Continuity between movements--the newly-composed "Confiteor" | 97 | |
| Afterword | 102 | |
| Notes | 104 | |
| Select bibliography | 111 | |
| Index | 113 |
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