Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach
collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors
each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach's
vocal compositions-including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and
cantatas-with particular attention to how such meaning arises out
of the intentionality of Bach's own compositional choices or (in
Part IV in particular) how meaning is discovered, and created,
through the reception of Bach's vocal works. And the authors do not
consider such compositional choices in a vacuum, but rather discuss
Bach's artistic intentions within the framework of broader cultural
trends-social, historical, theological, musical, etc. Such
questions of compositional choice and meaning frame the four
primary approaches to Bach's vocal music taken by the authors in
this volume, as seen across the book's four parts: Part I: How
might the study of historical theology inform our understanding of
Bach's compositional choices in his music for the church (cantatas,
Passions, masses)? Part II: How can we apply traditional analytical
tools to understand better how Bach's compositions were created and
how they might have been heard by his contemporaries? Part III:
What we can understand anew through the study of Bach's
self-borrowing (i.e., parody), which always changed the earlier
meaning of a composition through changes in textual content,
compositional characteristics, the work's context within a larger
composition, and often the performance context (from court to
church, for example)? Part IV: What can the study of reception
teach us about a work's meaning(s) in Bach's time, during the time
of his immediate successors, and at various points since then
(including our present)? The chapters in this volume thus reflect
the breadth of current Bach research in its attention not only to
source study and analysis, but also to meanings and contexts for
understanding Bach's compositions.
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