Lutheranism Anti Judaism And Bachs St John Passion

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019511471X
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion written by Michael Marissen and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1998 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And strangely, almost no scholarly attention has been given to the relationships between Lutheranism and Judaism as they affect the St. John Passion. Through a reappraisal of Bach's work and its contexts, Michael Marissen confronts Bach and Judaism directly, providing interpretive commentary that could serve as a basis for more informed and sensitive discussions of this troubling work.

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195344349
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion written by Michael Marissen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bach's St. John Passion is surely one of the monuments of Western music, yet performances of it are inevitably controversial. In large part, this is because of the combination of the powerful and highly emotional music and a text that includes passages from a gospel marked by vehement anti-Judaic sentiments. What did this masterpiece mean in Bach's day and what does it mean today? Although bibliographies on Bach and Judaism have grown enormously since World War II, there has been very little work on the relationship between the two areas. This is hardly surprising; Judaica scholars and culture critics focusing on issues of anti-Semitism commonly lack musical training and are, in any event, quite reasonably interested in even more pressing social and political issues. Bach scholars, on the other hand, have mostly concentrated on narrowly defined musical topics. Strangely, therefore, almost no scholarly attention has been given to relationships between Lutheranism and the religion of Judaism as they affect Bach's most controversial work, the St. John Passion. Through a reappraisal of Bach's work and its contexts, Marissen confronts Bach and Judaism directly, providing interpretive commentary that could serve as a basis for a more informed and sensitive discussion of this troubling work. Consisting of a long interpretive essay, followed by an annotated literal translation of the libretto, a guide to recorded examples, and a detailed bibliography, this concise text provides the reader with the tools to assess the work on its own terms and in the appropriate context.

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190606975
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach & God written by Michael Marissen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bach & God explores the religious character of Bach's vocal and instrumental music in seven interrelated essays. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging interpretive insights from careful biblical and theological scrutiny of the librettos. Yet he also shows how Bach's pitches, rhythms, and tone colors can make contributions to a work's plausible meanings that go beyond setting texts in an aesthetically satisfying manner. In some of Bach's vocal repertory, the music puts a "spin" on the words in a way that turns out to be explainable as orthodox Lutheran in its orientation. In a few of Bach's vocal works, his otherwise puzzlingly fierce musical settings serve to underscore now unrecognized or unacknowledged verbal polemics, most unsettlingly so in the case of his church cantatas that express contempt for Jews and Judaism. Finally, even Bach's secular instrumental music, particularly the late collections of "abstract" learned counterpoint, can powerfully project certain elements of traditional Lutheran theology. Bach's music is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.

Author : Michael Fuchs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538179970
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach's St. John Passion for the Twenty-First Century written by Michael Fuchs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using a contemporary lens, this book focuses on how J.S. Bach used his compositional creativity to interpret the message of the Johannine passion narrative from a Lutheran perspective and provides a new translation of the libretto. It provides a brief historical context, important points of theological scholarship, and performance history"--

Author : Andreas Loewe
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004272364
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion (BWV 245): A Theological Commentary written by Andreas Loewe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Theological Commentary is the first full-length work in English to consider Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion in its entirety, both the words and the music. Bach’s oratorio is a globally popular musical work, and a significant expression of Lutheran theology. The commentary explains the Biblical and poetic text, and its musical setting, line by line. Bach’s Passion is shown to be the work of a master craftsman and trained theologian, in the collaborative and cultural milieu of eighteenth-century, Lutheran Leipzig. For the first time, this work makes much German scholarship available in English, including archival sources, and includes a new scholarly translation of the libretto. The musical and theological terms are explained, to enable an interdisciplinary understanding of the Passion’s meaning and continued significance.

Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190606959
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach & God written by Michael Marissen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bach & God explores the religious character of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Noted musicologist Michael Marissen offers wide-ranging insights from detailed investigations of both words and music. Bach is inexhaustible, and Bach & God suggests that through close contextual study there is always more to discover and learn.

Author : Bettina Varwig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190943890
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Bach written by Bettina Varwig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book a offers a multitude of provocative new perspectives on one of the most iconic composers in the Western classical tradition. Its collective rethinking of some of our most cherished narratives and deeply held beliefs about Johann Sebastian Bach will allow readers to see the man in a new light and to hear his music with new ears.

Author : Christopher Metress
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038425222
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching the Reformations written by Christopher Metress and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Teaching the Reformations" that was published in Religions

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 665 pages
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Download or read book Johann Sebastian Bach written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Markus Rathey
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030021720X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bach's Major Vocal Works written by Markus Rathey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach's major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this concise and accessible book provides an introduction to the music and cultural contexts of the composer's most beloved masterpieces, including the Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, and St. John Passion. In addition to providing historical information, each chapter highlights significant aspects--such as the theology of love--of a particular piece. This penetrating volume is the first to treat the vocal works as a whole, showing how the compositions were embedded in their original performative context within the liturgy as well as discussing Bach's musical style, from the detailed level of individual movements to the overarching aspects of each work. Published in the approach to Easter when many of these vocal works are performed, this outstanding volume will appeal to casual concertgoers and scholars alike." -- Publisher's description