Bach Studies: Liturgy, Hymnology, and Theology

Author:   Robin A. Leaver
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   394
Publication Date:   09 January 2023
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Author:   Robin A. Leaver
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.762kg
ISBN:  

9780367701864


ISBN 10:   0367701863
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   09 January 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Preface Part I Liturgy 1. Bach’s Cantatas and the Liturgical Year 2. Bach’s Music and the Leipzig Liturgy 3. Bach’s Agnus Dei Compositions 4. Bach’s Parody Process: From Cantata to Missa 5. Bach and the Cantata Controversy in the Early Eighteenth Century Part II Hymnology 6. Bach and Johann Christoph Olearius 7. Bach’s Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 4): Hymnology and Chronology 8. Bach’s Orgelbüchlein 9. Bach and the Hymnic Aria 10. Bach and the Letter Codes of the Schemelli Gesangbuch Part III Theology 11. Bach and Pietism 12. Bach, Gesner, and Johann August Ernesti 13. Bach and Erdmann Neumeister 14. Bach’s Clavierübung III 15. Bach and Anniversaries of the Reformation Bibliography

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Robin A. Leaver is professor emeritus of sacred music, Westminster Choir College, Princeton; and has previously been visiting professor at the Juilliard School, New York, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Between 1984 and 2018 he wrote the program notes for the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and from time to time contributes similar writings for the Bach Collegium Japan. Professor Leaver is a past president of both the Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Hymnologie and the American Bach Society, and is an honorary member of the American Bach Society and the Riemenschneider Bach Institute. He is the author of many Bach articles that have appeared in such journals as the Bach Jahrbuch, the Journal of the Riemenscheider Bach Institute, and Early Music, and has contributed to standard reference works and volumes of essays on Bach and his world. As an editor he oversees monographs in the series Contextual Bach Studies, and his most recently edited Bach publications include the Routledge Research Companion to Johann Sebastian Bach (2016), Exploring Bach’s B-Minor Mass (2020), with Yo Tomita and Jan Smaczny, and Bach and the Counterpoint of Religion (2018).

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