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AuthorGeck, Martin.Uniform TitleBach. English
TitleJohann Sebastian Bach : life and work / Martin Geck ; translated from the German by John Hargraves.Edition1st U.S. ed.
PublishedOrlando : Harcourt, c2006.FormatBook
Biography, Autobiography
Description738 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.

LinkTable of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006012390.html
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Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2006012390-d.html
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NotesIncludes bibliographical references (p. 697-719) and index.
Contents|Approaching Bach.| |What do we know about Bach? ;| |The grand old men of Bach biography : Forkel, Spitta, Schweitzer ;| |Transmission of the works --| |The stations of Bach’s life.| |From matins singer to Hofkapellmeister| |(Eisenach ;| |Ohrdruf ;| |Lüneburg ;| |Arnstadt ;| |Mühlhausen ;| |Weimar ;| |Cöthen) ;| |Cantor at St. Thomas and city music director in Leipzig| |(The position and its new incumbent ;| |The early years in Leipzig ;| |The middle Leipzig period : "court composer") ;| |Director of the Collegium Musicum and composer of secular music| |(Aesthetic controversies, private initiatives ;| |The later Leipzig years : the universalist ;| |The Bach household) --| |The vocal music.| |The early and Weimar cantatas ;| |The Leipzig cantatas ;| |The passions ;| |Secular cantatas and the Christmas oratorio ;| |The Magnificat and the masses ;| |The motets --| |The instrumental works.| |The art of the toccata ;| |The organ chorales ;| |The Cöthen demonstration cycles : inventions and sinfonias, The well-tempered clavier, six solos for violin ;| |The concertos ;| |The sonatas and suites ;| |The late cycles| |(The Goldberg variations ;| |The art of fugue ;| |The musical offering) --| |Horizons.| |Bach’s art ;| |Bach as a Christian ;| |Rhetoric and symbolism ;| |Proportion and numerical relations in Bach’s music ;| |Theological Bach research : between scholarship and faith-inspired learning.|
ISBN01510064829780151006489Per.Sub.Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 -- Critique et interprétation.
Add.EntryHargraves, John.

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