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Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio - Music, Theology, Culture (Hardcover)
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Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio - Music, Theology, Culture (Hardcover)
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In the last decades of the 17th century, the feast of Christmas in
Lutheran Germany underwent a major transformation when theologians
and local governments waged an early modern "war on Christmas,"
discouraging riotous pageants and carnivalesque rituals in favor of
more personal and internalized expressions of piety. Christmas
rituals, such as the "Heilig Christ" plays and the rocking of the
child (Kindelwiegen) were abolished, and Christian devotion focused
increasingly on the metaphor of a birth of Christ in the human
heart. John Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio, composed in 1734,
both reflects this new piety and conveys the composer's experience
living through this tumult during his own childhood and early
career. Markus Rathey's book is the first thorough study of this
popular masterpiece in English. While giving a comprehensive
overview of the Christmas Oratorio as a whole, the book focuses on
two themes in particular: the cultural and theological
understanding of Christmas in Bach's time and the compositional
process that led Bach from the earliest concepts to the completed
piece. The cultural and religious context of the oratorio provides
the backdrop for Rathey's detailed analysis of the composition, in
which he explores Bach's compositional practices, for example, his
reuse and parodies of movements that had originally been composed
for secular cantatas. The book analyzes Bach's original score and
sheds new light on the way Bach wrote the piece, how he shaped
musical themes, and how he revised his initial ideas into the final
composition.
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