基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1999.
Full Description
The Bach cantatas are among the highest achievements of Western musical art; yet studies of individual Bach cantatas that are both illuminating and detailed are few in number. In this book Eric Chafe combines theological, historical, analytical, and interpretive approaches to the cantatas to offer the reader and listener the richest possible experience of the works in the light of the composer's intentions and of the enduring and universal qualities of the works. Concentrating on a small number of representative cantatas, mostly from the Leipzig cycles of 1723-24 and 1724-25, and in particular on Cantata 77, Chafe illustrates how Bach strove to mirror both the dogma and the mystery of religious experience in musical allegory.
Contents
Introduction
1: The Hermeneutic Matrix
2: The Lutheran "Metaphysical" Tradition in Music and Music Theory
3: Cantata 21, "Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis"
4: Modal Questions
5: Bach's Reflection on the Past: Moral Chorales in Cantata Designs
6: Two Chorale Cantatas
7: Cantata 77: The Theological Background
8: "Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben": An Analysis of Cantata 77
9: Epilogue: Cantata 60, "O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
