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Listening to Bach - The Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio (Paperback)
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Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor
and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can
hear. Listening to Bach explores musical style as it was understood
in the early eighteenth century. It encourages ways of listening
that take eighteenth-century musical sensibilities into account and
that recognize our place as inheritors of a long tradition of
performance and interpretation. Daniel R. Melamed shows how to
recognize old and new styles in sacred music of Bach's time, and
how movements in these styles are constructed. This opens the
possibility of listening to the Mass in B Minor as Bach's
demonstration of the possibilities of contrasting, combining, and
reconciling old and new styles. It also shows how to listen for
elements that would have been heard as most significant in the
early eighteenth century, including markers of sleep arias, love
duets, secular choral arias, and other movement types. This offers
a musical starting point for listening for the ways Bach put these
types to use in the Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio. The
book also offers ways to listen to and think about works created by
parody, the re-use of music for new words and a new purpose, like
almost all of the Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio. And it
shows that modern performances of these works are stamped with
audible consequences of our place in the twenty-first century. The
ideological choices we make in performing the Mass and Oratorio,
part of the legacy of their performance and interpretation, affect
the way the work is understood and heard today. All these topics
are illustrated with copious audio examples on a companion Web
site, offering new ways of listening to some of Bach's greatest
music.
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